Arcadian is a pinball arcade management app made to:
- Help arcades show off their current machine line-ups
- Allow players to report mechanical issues that arise during play
- Give owners a to-do list of needed repairs based on crowdsourced reports
As an active member of the DC Pinball League I wanted to build a practical solution for a frequent problem.
Arcade owner-operators are generally responsible for the upkeep of their machines, but tend to rely on word of mouth to find out what's not working on their admittedly complex games! Why not allow player to report these directly, in real time?
This project is currently proof-of-concept for an idea I'd like to develop further, get in touch if you have feature ideas or want to collaborate!
On YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jb8wXfcI_Go
You will need to clone both the front and back end to your local machine. [Front End] : https://github.com/drubaby/arcadian-frontend/ [Back End] : https://github.com/drubaby/arcadian-backend/
With Postgres running, navigate to the back end directory and run rake db:seed to populate the app with locations and a few random machines in each arcade. Next, run rails s to start the rails server.
From the front end directory run npm install to load all dependencies and then npm start to start the local server. This should automatically open the project in your browser.
DC Pinball Locations seeded from the Pinball Map API: http://pinballmap.com/api/v1/docs
Pinball Machine data seeded from the Open Pinball Database API: https://opdb.org/api