Guess That NYC ‘Hood from Chris Henrick on Vimeo.
An in progress NYC neighborhood guessing game for the web that runs on Node JS via the Express framework and MongoDB with Leaflet JS, GeoJSON and Underscore JS. This was my final for Web 3: Javascript last semester, taught by Mani Nilchiani. The user navigates a map of New York City and selects neighborhoods that come from a dataset by PediaCities. Their guesses are checked against the neighborhood boundary data and then stored in a NoSQL database (MongoDB). If the guess is correct then the polygon for that neighborhood disappears from the map and they are color coded blue in the left part of the interface.
I’d like to make the game two player using web sockets so players could compete against one another, as well as add a timer to give a sense of urgency. There is also the possibility of making this game more in depth conceptually such as providing historical information about the neighborhood being guessed as commentary on gentrification in NYC.
Code for the project is available on GitHub.
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