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  Rain Maker

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  Infrastructure as Clouds (IaC

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  Make it rain (creates services on DigitalOcean using Terraform configs)

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  Terraform configuration generated

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  Raining in progress

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  Storm over (instances created on DigitalOcean)

Rain Maker

Inspiration

What if we made Papa's Pizzeria but for DigitalOcean instances? If cloud is the future, let's make it rain.

What it does

Rain Maker is a rogue-like game where you speedrun building cloud infrastructure for impatient enterprise clients. Netflix needs a chat system? Drag in some droplets, a Redis cache, and a load balancer. Then copy the Terraform config and make it rain. (Deploys to DigitalOcean)

How we built it

• Next.js 15 + TypeScript + Tailwind
• DigitalOcean
• Terraform
• Shell scripts for deploying Terraform code to a DigitalOcean Droplet

Challenges we ran into

• Translating game logic to Terraform code
• Configuring DigitalOcean services and APIs to work with Terraform and our droplet
• Writing shell scripts for deploying Terraform code to a DigitalOcean Droplet

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Learned a lot about Terraform and DigitalOcean
• Deployed our application
• We are a duo and made this in a weekend while exploring Ottawa during uOttaHack8

What we learned

• How to use DigitalOcean
• Terraform configurations
• Infrastructure as Code

What's next for Rain Maker

• Let's improve the UI and create real game assets
• Make gameplay loop for exciting and engaging
• Automate the initial setup of the Droplet which runs the Terraform configurations

Built With

• bash
• digitalocean
• nextjs
• terraform
• typescript