GameMasterStudio

A website to create Dungeons & Dragons characters and campaigns

GameMasterStudio, a fullstack website inspired partially by Roll20.net and DnD Beyond, is an online Dungeons & Dragons character & campaign creator. Users who have created campaigns can invite other users to those campaigns, who can add the characters they've created.

Technologies Used

• Backend: Python, Flask, WTForms, boto3/botocore (for uploading to AWS/S3)
• Frontend: JavaScript, React/Redux, AJAX, React-Drag-And-Drop(for image upload functionality), react-quilljs (for creating and editing articles)
• Database: PostgresSQL
• Image hosting: AWS/S3

Features

• User login

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• User Home

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• Character Sheet

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• Campaign Page

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• Article Page

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Install Instructions

1. Clone this repo
   • git clone git@github.com:AndrewPMurray/GameMasterStudio.git
2. Install dependencies for backend
   • pipenv install
3. Install dependencies for frontend
   • cd react-app
   • npm install
4. Create PostgreSQL user
   • CREATE USER gms_user WITH CREATEDB PASSWORD '<password>'
5. Create PostgreSQL database
   • `CREATE DATABASE gms_db WITH OWNER gms_user
6. Create a .env file in the root directory based on the .env.example file
7. In .env file:
   • Replace 'password' in DATABASE_URL with your chosen password
   • Enter a secure combination of characters for your SECRET_KEY
   • This website uses Minio for image hosting. Instructions for setting up a Minio host can be found here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-minio-object-storage-server-in-standalone-mode-on-ubuntu-20-04
   • Set env variables for MINIO_BUCKET, MINIO_KEY, MINIO_SECRET, and MINIO_API_HOST
8. Flask Migrate and Seed your database in root directory
   • pipenv shell
   • flask db upgrade
   • flask seed all
9. Start backend server in root directory
   • flask run
10. Start frontend server in react-app directory
    • npm start
11. In your browser go to localhost:3000
12. You may use the Demo user by clicking on the Login button or create a new user by clicking on the Sign Up button. Then you can create a new character or campaign or invite other users to a campaign.

Additional Features:

• Ability to add sections/articles to campaigns, for users in a campaign to keep track of their sessions
• Search campaigns for articles within that campaign

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