EU-Tort-3 — Hackathon Game Jam

A 2-hour game jam where small groups build a game using a stack that was deliberately chosen for you: Phaser 4 + TypeScript + Vite.

You are not expected to know Phaser. You are not expected to know Node. You are not expected to walk away knowing them either. The point is to experiment with what's possible when you collaborate with Claude without your usual constraints — no backend, no pipelines, no Jira — and see how far you can push it in two hours.

At T+2hr we demo by screen-share. Show whatever you built.

Our team's plan

MVP is one tower (AWS Shield) vs one attack (a DDoS swarm of tortoises), with every stat in a data-driven config so adding the next AWS-service-vs-attack pairing is a ~10-line diff. The work splits into three parallel streams (core engine / entities & combat / UI) with disjoint file ownership and an event-bus contract between them.

Full plan lives in docs/plan/: read the overview and the shared contracts, then pick up your stream brief (core / entities / UI).

How it works

1. Fork this repo on GitHub. Your group works in your fork.
2. Clone your fork locally.
3. Install and run:

   npm install
   npm run dev

   Open http://localhost:8080. Edits hot-reload.
4. Run claude in the repo. CLAUDE.md and the Phaser skill pack under .claude/skills/ load automatically — Claude already knows the project layout, the asset paths, and how Phaser 4 works.
5. Build. Push to your fork.
6. At T+2hr — screen-share demo.

The game

EU-Tort-3 — "Europe (Tortoise)", an AWS region that isn't on the status page. Tower defence: AWS services are the towers, tortoise-themed intruders are the infrastructure attacks, and the origin server at the end of the path is what you're defending.

There is no art in the repo yet. Placeholder shapes are generated at runtime in Preloader.create() (see sparkle), so nothing blocks on assets. Drop real files into public/assets/ and load them in Preloader.preload() when they exist.

Starting scenes: a start page (MainMenu), a stub gameplay scene (Game), and an end screen (GameOver).

Groups

Group 1

Name	Email
Gabor	gabor@primer.io
Danny Caulwell	danny.caulwell@primer.io
Adem Sabic	adem.sabic@primer.io
Paul Sebastian	paul.sebastian@primer.io
Achim Munene	achim.munene@primer.io

Group 2

Name	Email
Darius	darius@primer.io
Boris	boris@primer.io
Tai Lucas	tai.lucas@primer.io
Francisco	francisco@primer.io
Dimitris	dimitris@primer.io

Group 3

Name	Email
Euler	euler@primer.io
Zsofia Sinko	zsofia.sinko@primer.io
HJ	hj@primer.io
Salma	salma@primer.io
Onur Var	onur.var@primer.io

Commands

Command	What it does
npm install	Install dependencies (once)
npm run dev	Dev server on http://localhost:8080 with hot reload
npm run build	Production build into dist/
npm run typecheck	Surface TypeScript errors Vite hides in dev

Everything else (project layout, how to load assets, where scenes live, house rules) lives in CLAUDE.md — or just ask Claude.

Credits

Built on top of the official Phaser 4 Vite TS template. Phaser is © Phaser Studio Inc.