Walking in Their Shoes: Poverty in America

A game that presents scenarios of impoverishment in America. Written as part of a collaboration with researchers at Yale to encourage subjects to gain an alternative perspective to inequalities in America.

Installation

Prerequisite software

To download this game one must have the following software installed:

• Git
• Node.js
• MongoDB

Other dependencies that come when you run npm install

• Bower
• Gulp

Compilation

• Run the command “Git clone https://github.com/DavidWatkins/Walking-in-Their-Shoes.git” in a directory you want to download the project to
• Run “cd Walking-in-Their-Shoes”
• Run “npm install”
• Run “bower install”
• Run “gulp build”
• The entire project will now be contained in the “Walking-in-Their-Shoes/dist” folder
• Make sure you have mongo set up in your computer (see MongoDB link above)

Usage

To run the application:

• run “node server.js”
• Connect to:
  • 127.0.0.1/#NAS for no agency/with stats
  • 127.0.0.1/#NANS for no agency/no stats
  • 127.0.0.1/#AGS for agency/with stats
  • 127.0.0.1/#AGNS for agency with no stats
• Connect to 127.0.0.1/getData to receive all records in the mongoDB

Contributing

In order to make changes to the scenarios shown in the game, modify the file located at ‘src/assets/data/gameData.json’
The format is as follows:

{
  "Intro": [
	{
	  "agencyText": "",
    "noAgencyText": "",
	  "footnotes": [ "List these out to get a list of sources" ]
	},
	{
	  "agencyText": "this is shown when there is agency",
	  "noAgencyText": "this is shown at no agency",
	  "continueText": ""
	},
	{
	  "text": "This is shown regardless of agency",
	  "continueText": "This is optional"
	}
  ],
  "Final": {
	   "text": "This will be shown at the end"
  },
  "scenarios": [
	{
	  "id": 1,
	  "agency": {
		"Intro": "",
		"Choices": {
		  "msg": "You have two options:",
		  "opt1": "Option 1",
		  "opt2": "",
		  "final": ""
		},
		"Outcome1": {
		  "msg": "",
		  "health": -1,
		  "mentalHealth": 1,
		  "childHealth": -1
		},
		"Outcome2": {
		  "msg": "",
		  "health": -1,
		  "mentalHealth": -1,
		  "childHealth": -1
		},
		"Stats": {
		  "text": "",
		  "footnotes": ""
		}
	  },
	  "no-agency": {
		"Intro": "",
		"Choices": "",
		"Outcome1": {
		  "msg": "",
		  "health": -1,
		  "mentalHealth": -1,
		  "childHealth": -1
		},
		"Outcome2": {
		  "msg": "",
		  "health": -1,
		  "mentalHealth": -1,
		  "childHealth": -1
		},
		"Stats": {
		  "text": "",
		  "footnotes": ""
		}
	  }
	}
  ]
}

History

v1.0 - Initial Release

Credits

Much thanks to Gina Roussos for providing the description of the game as well as providing the insight on how to make such a game Sithjester for the character sprite

License

GPLv3