Overview

Dino Trumps is a dinosaur take on the popular card game top trumps. This was built over a week as a group project using Node.JS, React,Express & MongoDb.

Game Mechanics

Both the player and computer begin with 15 cards and the player has the option to select one of 6 attributes to compare against the hidden computer card. Once a selection is made, the computer card is revealed and the respective value on each card is compared with the highest value winning.

The winner receives both cards to their hand and in the occurence of a draw both cards are held in a 'Draw pile'. The cards in the 'Draw pile' are allocated to the winner of the next turn. Currently the first to hold 20 cards in their hand wins.

Learning

Developing the project as a part of a group of four allowed me to implement Agile princilpes - from our initial planning meetings to utilising daily standups and review of work being completed. The main learning take away from this project was using Git/Github in a group project, developing across multiple branches for fixes and features and dealing with pull and merge requests and conflicts.

Additionally I gained experience working with APIs, initially reviewing a host of available APIs for the game before implementing our own.