1.6 Hardware and Software Requirements

Development Requirements

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and highly popular code editor which allows for lots of extensions and customisation of the code editor, which makes it highly popular in the coding community. Node is a package manager that is very common and allows for the use of packages and frameworks such as React or Phaser.js, which allow for more functionality with the JavaScript/Typescript languages.

Software	Hardware Required
Visual Studio Code	1.6 GHz processor 1 GB of RAM 200 MB of disk space
Node.js	at least 4 Virtual CPU Cores 2GB of RAM 25GB of Storage

Microsoft(2021), Cloud 66 ( n.d.)

User Requirements

Describe what a user will need to run the solution

Chrome

Platform	Requirements
Windows	Windows 7 or later An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE3 capable
Macintosh	OS X El Capitan 10.11 or later
Linux	64-bit Ubuntu 18.04+, Debian 10+, openSUSE 15.2+, or Fedora Linux 32+ An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE3 capable

Safari

Platform	Requirements
Macintosh	Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor 1GB of RAM 128MB of VRAM
Windows	1.4GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Microsoft® Windows® XP or Windows 7 2GHz Intel Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Windows Vista® 1GB of RAM 128MB of VRAM

Google (2022), Safari Montage (2022)

For me, I have either an 8 core Ryzen 5800x @ 4.7GHz and a RTX 3070 with 16GB of RAM, and 4 TB of storage, or a MacBook M1 with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, so I'm well beyond the development and user requirements.

This could however be an issue as I'm unable to test if computers with lower specifications are able to run the game, unless I were to create a virtual machine which I limit to a certain number of CPU cores and RAM, but I'd need to host the game on a website to be able to access it, because I wouldn't have access to the game on the virtual machine locally.