Final words and see you next time 👋

Starting December 26th, 2024 @ 18:00 (UTC+7), we will shut down the entire infrastructure of Starlight.

Why?

• We have finished the presentation for our "Web Application Development" course, the sole reason why I invested a lot in the project.
• After the presentation, there is not so much a growth of players, and maintaining a service that no one uses is not worth it.

What does this mean?

• The Starlight service hosted at starlight.swyrin.id.vn, is no longer available after the said time.
• The Starlight API service hosted at cluster1.swyrin.id.vn, is no longer available after the said time.
• You will have to self-host the entire game, along with replacing occurences, including but not limited to: API URLs and Service URLs.

Is there any future plan?

• Yes, we are rewriting the entire game, which you can track at PR #10, and at stars-at-our-back branch

After all, thank to Mr. Nguyen Trung Nghia for being so enthusiastic!

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Project Starlight

• Welcome to our project: Starlight. This is a web-based VSRG (vertically-scrolling rhythm game) made with React, Vite, ASP.NET Core (+batteries from Microsoft) and a-particular-game-engine which I was strictly forbidden to disclose by the PM.

• To perceive the best and our intended UX, make sure your screen is 1536x864 or 1920x1080 at 125%.

• Make sure your audio stack is low-latency enough:

  • Try to use ASIO stack, either ASIO4ALL or your driver's one is OK!
  • Make sure you don't stream via VGA or HDMI since it will cause buffer overhead on the browser, which affected the sound quality and latency.
    • This one issue is out of my control, which blew up the presentation. Apologize to Mr. Nguyen Trung Nghia and the team.

Does it work?

• I honestly don't know, try out for yourself: [LINK REMOVED]
• If it really doesn't work, there is a self-hosting guide below.

How do I self-host this?

It's a bit complicated. You have been warned.

• You need Node.js latest LTS (recommended) or lastest version (not supported first-party) for the front-end.
• You need .NET version 8 SDK for the backend.

Steps to self-host

• Clone the entire project.
• Install packages.
  • Front-end: npm install
  • Back-end: dotnet restore
• Setting up:
  • Front-end: npm run build
  • Backend:
    • Create a config.json file with the following structure.

    {
      "Email": {
        "Sender": "",
        "Auth": "",
        "Host": "",
        "Port": 587
      },
      "Database": {
        "Host": "",
        "Port": 6969,
        "User": "",
        "Password": "",
        "Database": ""
      }
    }

    where Email is your SMTP relay (i.e. SendGrid), Database is your MySQL configuration (psst We support MariaDB, too psst).
    • Make sure CORS is correctly set up for your domain. (Hint: see Program.cs file)
    • Publish the package: dotnet publish Starlight.Backend /p:EnvironmentName=Development -o build/
• Running:
  • Front-end: There should be a build directory containing index.html, host that.
  • Back-end: There should be a build directory containing Starlight.Backend[.*], use a Process Manager like PM2 to host that.