E.A.K. is a new open source game that teaches kids to code and create on the web. Levels are written in HTML and CSS, but most are impossible until you hack in to them and modify their source code.

The story of E.A.K. is that cute animals on the Internet hate kittens, because they get all the views. They form the evil operation E.A.K. - Erase All Kittens. You must use your coding super powers to save the kittens, and consequently the entire Internet.

We have an early demo you can play at http://eraseallkittens.com/.

E.A.K. is designed and built in London by Drum Roll. We're something between a games company and an ed-tech startup, and we're huge fans of the Open Web.

The aim of the project is to teach kids real, practical coding skills. After playing the game, we want people to be able to build and publish their own creations on the web.

If you’re interested in what we've done so far or would like to help out, we'd love to hear from you. Fill out the form on our website, and we'll get in touch. If you just want to dive straight in and checkout the code, read on :)

In order to build E.A.K, you'll need to be comfortable using your computer's terminal. First off, follow the instructions linked to below to install everything you need to get E.A.K. up and running.

• Git
• Node.JS
• Bower
• Gulp
• FFMPEG
  • Mac users, your best bet for FFMPEG is to use Homebrew and run brew install ffmpeg --with-theora --with-libogg --with-libvorbis

Next, you'll need to download E.A.K. and its dependencies. Run the following on your terminal:§

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/drumrollhq/E.A.K..git
  cd E.A.K.
  npm install
  bower install

OK. That was a lot of stuff to install. Hopefully now, we're ready to build E.A.K.

In your terminal, run:

gulp build

This will take a little while initially as it has to convert all the game assets, but should be quicker with subsequent runs.

As E.A.K. runs in the browser, we need to run a web server to serve the game. To start a web server on your computer:

• If you're not so into the whole command line terminal thing:
  1. Download Server-Thingy.
  2. Open Server-Thingy, click 'Choose Folder'. Find the public folder in your E.A.K. directory.
  3. Open your browser, and go to http://localhost:1337/
• If text-based interfaces are your thang:
  1. Run npm install -g serve (if that doesn't work, add sudo to the start of the command)
  2. From your E.A.K. folder, run serve public
  3. Open your browser, and go to http://localhost:3000/
• If you have some other way you like to start static webservers:
  1. Do that. (note: E.A.K's public folder must be on the root on your web server)

Congratulations! You're now (probably) running E.A.K! (If your not, sorry! Please email joe [at] drumrollhq.com and I'll try and help you, and update this guide if I can.