DisCo Zero

Would you like to play a game?

This game was created as a badge challenge alongside the DistrictCon hacker conference in Washington, DC in February 2025.

Running Locally

1. OPTIONAL: Create an SSL certificate for localhost. Put the decrypted key and crt in a localcert directory inside this project.
2. Install Node.js (check the package.json file to see what version the site runs on)
3. Install and run Redis
4. Install the dependencies with npm install
5. Configure your environment variables by copying .env.example and renaming it to .env, then change the values to match your local environment!

Now you should be ready to run the application locally with node . (or use npm run watch to continuously watch for file changes and restart the app).

Helpful Redis commands

Open CLI to heroku redis: heroku redis:cli -a disco-game -c disco-game

Get keys matching a pattern: KEYS disco_code_1010*

Add a new code to be used by a player: SET disco_code_[UUID] ""

Get a player's data: GET disco_user_[handle]