Fallen Haven

This is an attempt to make a modern web-based version of the 1997 game, Fallen Haven.

Running Locally

The game is built in two halves. The frontend, written in Javascript using the excellent Phaser framework and a backend Node and express web server.

Both can be run independently with or without the other.

To run the frontend locally you must set the appropriate environment variables in a file ./frontend/.env

API_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4500
ASSET_ENDPOINT=/assets/data
WEBGL_RENDERER=true
CANVAS_RENDERER=true

Then you can run the frontend with a standard npm start

cd frontend
npm install
npm start

The backend connects to a Redis instance for persistent (ish) storage. You'll need to again set the appropriate values in ./backend/.env such as

REDIS_HOST=redis.host.dns.name
REDIS_KEY=access.key
REDIS_PORT=6280
PORT=4500

Then you can run the backend with either npm start to run without reloading or npm run start:dev if you want the server to hot-reload with changes.

cd backend
npm install
npm run start:dev

Production Deployment

• Frontend is React + Phaser on Cloudflare Pages
• Shared library is Typescript and data encoded as Flatbuffers that can be imported on either front or backend
• Backend is Typescript and Node on Cloudflare Workers