Glarium

Glarium is a project that originally started as a clone of the MMORTS Ikariam. I worked on it for a couple of months, building the database, backend, and starting the frontend.

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Technology Stack

Backend: Node.js, Express + TypeScript
Frontend: React 19 + TypeScript
Database: MySQL
Deployment: Everything runs in Docker

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Installation

• Clone this project
• Copy backend/.env.example to backend/.env

To start the project, simply run:

docker-compose up --build

This will automatically build and start all containers: backend, frontend, and MySQL. Once the process finishes, the app will be ready to use.

Then open http://localhost:3000/ to create an accout and play the game.

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Features

• Account creation / login
• Random generation of +4200 islands
• City, island, and world views
• Building construction
• Research system
• Purchase of merchant ships
• Troop creation
• Transport resources to other cities
• Colonization
• Raiding other cities
• Messaging system
• City notifications
• Real-time event notifications
• Tavern and citizen generation
• Academy and research point generation
• Island expansion
• Resource production on the island
• 17 functioning buildings with different characteristics

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Contributing to the Project

I would like other developers to be able to contribute to the project and help improve it.

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Screenshots

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