Hopeless Opus is an online event organised by Acumen, ISTE Manipal in the national level technical festival TechTatva. Hopeless Opus is a choice-based story based game, where people are supposed to answer aptitude questions to advance further in the story. The choice a person makes in the story based question decides the number of aptitude questions the player answers after that, and also decides the path on which the user goes on.

Step 1: Initialize the virtual environment and activate it

python -m venv env source env/bin/activate (for windows replace bin by Scripts)

Step 2: Install the dependencies

pip install -r requirments.txt (Make sure that the working directory is the same as requirements.txt file)

Step3 : Start the development server

python manage.py runserver

Note that if you are using a different database than the SQLite database, you need to change the database setting in settings.py and run the migrations

1. utils.py within game app : This has helper functions to check for end of day and also to get rank of a user. The DAYS Dictionary is designed in such a way that it is self-explanatory. Also, BRANCHES is a list of all brached questions. The DAYS dictionary has a key called branches, which can be used for keeping a record. It is not used anywhere in evaluating anything.
2. send_userid_mail.py within user app: This is a Django management command, which is used for sending mails to all participants who haven't updated their UserIds yet. To use this, we need to run the command python manage.py send_userid_mail. To know more about custom management commands, click here or here