pachingo: a spiritual successor to peggle

“pachingo!” is a free to play web-based game inspired by japanese pachinko machines and peggle by ea popcap. it is a spiritual successor to the latter, extended with support for user-generated levels featuring user-uploaded assets, making each level a unique experience.

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details:

• built a frontend using next/react, typescript and tailwindcss to host a web-based game and its community functionality including searching for and sharing custom levels
• built a backend using node, express and typescript to host a restful api for interacting with a mongodb database and an aws s3 bucket
• wrote a python microservice to generate level thumbnails
• managed source code using git and developed in agile using jira as a project tracker
• deployed to various cloud hosts including vercel, render and mongodb atlas