Clash of Farms is a web-based multiplayer strategy game that blends gardening with real-time battles. Built during the Spring Hackathon by Serverless Guru, this project showcases a fully serverless and event-driven architecture using AWS and Momento.

• Frontend: Next.js + Phaser 3
• Auth: AWS Cognito (with custom Lambda triggers)
• Backend: AWS Lambda + API Gateway
• Database: DynamoDB (Single Table Design)
• Real-Time Events & Caching: Momento Cache + Momento Topics
• Orchestration: EventBridge + Flask (Topics bridge)

• Authentication Flow: Cognito with post-confirmation and pre-token generation Lambda triggers.
• State Management: Read-aside and write-aside caching with Momento for low-latency player data.
• In-Game Shop: Buy plants, attack units, and defense items through API calls and real-time updates.
• Real-Time Gameplay: Item placement and updates published from the browser to Momento Topics.
• Event Handling: Events routed through a Flask app → EventBridge → Lambda → DynamoDB + Cache updates.

• 🌽 Plant crops, 💰 earn gold, 🛡️ deploy defenses, and ⚔️ raid other players.
• ⚡ Real-time state sync with ultra-low latency using Momento.
• 🧵 Event-driven coordination across client and backend using publish/subscribe.
• 🔐 Secure publishing to Topics using a Token Vending Machine Lambda.
• 🌍 Fully serverless stack: auto-scaling, cost-effective, and highly modular.

• Orchestrating real-time event flows between the frontend and backend.
• Managing Phaser 3 inside a React-based frontend.
• Designing idempotent Lambdas for reliable, replay-safe operations.
• Debugging async flows with structured logs and trace IDs.
• Implementing secure client-side publish with short-lived Momento tokens.

• 🎮 Real-time multiplayer raids between players
• 🏆 Leaderboards with seasonal resets
• ⏲️ Offline farm production via scheduled events

Built with 💚 for Spring, farming, and serverless game dev.