Monkey Ticket Defense

Inspiration

• Tower Defense is a fun genre and fits to the Atlassian ecosystem
• The combination of monkeys and AI Bugs makes for a good story

What it does

• It's a funny multiplayer tower defense game with a strategic element
• It showcases Forge's ability to host modern JS-based webpages

How we built it

• 2 developers working in a day/night shift providing 24/7 coverage

Challenges we ran into

• Parallel Forge development was difficult
• One technical user as owner of the Forge app to bypass the restrictions of only the developer of the app being allowed to view it

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Made our first game in JS
• Used the Atlassian ecosystem to run a semi-realtime multiplayer game
• Made it possible for Jira and Compass to share a Webtrigger/Storage context
• Quickly put together a team that had never collaborated before

What we learned

• More JS frameworks and concepts
• Game mechanisms and their challenges
• The possibilities and limitations of AI art generation
• About the Atlassian APIs
• Atlassian makes improvements to its Cloud offering, so that it becomes as customizable as the Server/Data Center products.

What's next for Monkey Ticket Defense

• Hopefully going to present in Berlin

Built With

• bitbucket
• bootstrap
• compass
• compass-graphql-api
• confluence
• forge
• javascript
• jira
• jira-rest-api
• midjourney
• react
• react-game-engine
• vscode
• vscode-devcontainer