A decentralized token crafting and trading game, running on the Ethereum network.

The game revolves around the Crafty and CraftableToken contracts.

Crafty is the 'game' contract, and is the one players interact directly with. It allows acquisition of basic craftables to use as ingredients, creation of new craftables with recipes, and crafting of said community-created recipes.

The CraftableTokens themselves are ERC20 tokens, and can therefore be freely traded among players. These tokens are acquired by interacting with the Crafty contract, which has the ability to mint them.

• npm: v5.8.0.
• zos: v1.0.0 You can check if the dependencies are installed correctly by running the following command:

$ npm --version
5.8.0
$ zos --version
1.0.0

After installing the dependencies previously mentioned, clone the project repository and enter the root directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/zeppelinos/crafty.git
$ cd crafty

Next, build the project dependencies:

$ npm install

To make sure everything is set up correctly, the tests should be run:

$ npm test

For the dApp to be able to interact with a game contract, it first needs to be deployed to an Ethereum network. Using a local blockchain is recommended during development, since deployment is faster, allowing for faster iterations, though some aspects of its behavior are quite different from the real thing (both the testnets and mainnet). Both local blockchains and testnets, however, require some setup.

We use Ganache CLI to run the local blockchain, by executing (on a separate terminal):

$ npx ganache-cli --deterministic --network-id 1337 --gas-limit 8000000

Ganache will print the mnemonic used to generate the first 10 addresses on the network, all of which will start with a hefty amount of Ether. Make sure to store this mnemonic, since it will be later needed by your Ethereum browser to use these addresses.

Setting up a testnet is a bit more involved, since it requires two steps:

1. Acquiring Ether. There are faucets for both Ropsten and Rinkeby: use these to have some Ether transfered to your account.
2. Connecting to a network node. These can be either an owned node (for which a hostname and port need to be provided), or an INFURA node (sign up on their website to obtain an API key). Using INFURA is recommended for beginners, since it's easier to setup.

Once both steps are complete, a .env file needs to be created on the root directory, containing the secret data required to connect to the node of your choice. env.sample shows an example on how to do this. Do NOT commit or share the .env file.

The deployment script will require access to the bytecode and ABI of the contracts in the project, so we need to compile those:

$ npm run build

This command will create .json artifacts for each contract in the build/contracts directory.

Once the connection to a node has been setup and the contract artifacts generated, the contracts can be deployed using:

$ npm run deploy local

or

$ npm run deploy ropsten

During deployment, the addresses of all deployed contracts will be printed. These should be used to create the configuration file for the app, which is stored in app/src/store/config.json. A sample config file exists in app/src/store/config.example.json.

The back-end is a simple Chalice application, for which AWS credentials with access to API Gateway and Lambda need to be setup. After that, the API can be deployed by executing:

$ chalice deploy

The URL of the API must also be added to the app/src/store/config.json file.

The first time the front-end is setup, its dependencies need to be installed:

$ cd app
app $ npm install

Before the front-end can be deployed, the artifacts of the different contracts need to be copied to its directory. This can be achieved by running:

$ npm run build
$ npm run copy-artifacts

Also, the configuration file needs to be created with the addresses of the different contracts and the URL of the API, as described in the respective sections.

The front-end itself is a React app, which uses Babel to transpile and webpack to build a bundle. All of these steps, plus an automatic creation of a server at localhost:3000 can be executed by running:

app $ npm run start

A command is also available to update the contract artifacts and launch the app in a single step:

$ npm run app