Eat A Beat

A 2D game generated from a song, powered by Spotify. This project won 1st place on Spotify DevX Hackathon 2018. The game may be accessed at eatabeat.herokuapp.com.

The team

• Joakim Berntsson
• Raha Dadgar
• Iman Radjavi
• Simon Takman

Game design

Summary of game features:

• Song tempo decides the speed of the obstacles
• Obstacles are spawned for each beat
• The average pitch of a beat decides the position of the obstacle
• The confidence of the beat decides the size of the obstacle

Design

Backend

Developed using node.js with the following technologies:

• Express
• Spotify Web API

Frontend

Developed using the following technologies:

• JQuery
• Pixie.js
• Spotify Player
• Cookie.js
• Particles

Setup & run

If you want to run this yourself, follow the following steps:

1. Clone this reposity
2. Create a file .env in the root of the repository
3. Create an application at spotify developer site
4. Add callback to localhost:3000 on the spotify application
5. Insert your spotify client ID and SECRET inside the .env file as SPOTIFY_ID=... and SPOTIFY_SECRET=...