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_Note from Derek: It's been five years since any meaningful contribution was made to this project. I'm archiving the repository. If someone wants to take this project back up, they are welcome to unarchive it. Hope y'all are having successful careers!_

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# War of the Games

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[Kittenwar](http://www.kittenwar.com/) for video games. Pits two randomly selected video games against each other in an effort to determine, once and for all, which game is the best. Users will receive new game recommendations based on their ranking history.

- Front End: https://www.warofthegames.com/
- Back End: https://async-capstone.herokuapp.com/

## Features

- A new, randomly-generated battle with every refresh of the app.
- Skip button for matchups where users are either unfamiliar with one of the games or don't have a preference for one game over the other.
- Learn more about each game with individual info pages.
- User accounts to save ranking history.
- See all games in the database through the games list.
- Game recommendations.

## The Stack

### Client

- [React](https://reactjs.org/)
- [Redux](https://redux.js.org/) for state management.
- [React Router](https://reacttraining.com/react-router/) for routing.
- [Redux Form](https://redux-form.com/)

### Server

- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/) with the [Express](https://expressjs.com/) framework.
- [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/) with [Mongoose](https://mongoosejs.com/) for the database.
- [Passport](http://www.passportjs.org/) authentication using [node.bcrypt.js](https://github.com/kelektiv/node.bcrypt.js/) and [jsonwebtoken](https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken).
- [Cloudinary](https://cloudinary.com/) for images.

## Screenshots

Homepage
![A screenshot of the War of the Games homepage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thinkful-ei27/war-of-the-games/dev/presentation/wotg-home.jpg)

Game info
![A screenshot of the game info page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thinkful-ei27/war-of-the-games/dev/presentation/wotg-game-info.jpg)

Games list
![A screenshot of the games list page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thinkful-ei27/war-of-the-games/dev/presentation/wotg-games.jpg)

Leaderboard
![A screenshot of the leaderboard page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thinkful-ei27/war-of-the-games/dev/presentation/wotg-leaderboard.jpg)

Recommendations
![A screenshot of the recommendations page](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thinkful-ei27/war-of-the-games/dev/presentation/wotg-recommendations.jpg)

## History

_War of the Games_ is the final capstone project for the _\*ASYNC_ team as part of [Thinkful's Engineering Immersion program](https://www.thinkful.com/bootcamp/web-development/full-time/).

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