Chicken X and Friends — Trade-show competition platform

Overview

For trade shows, Million Games wanted a competition station where visitors could play Chicken X and Friends for 15 minutes and chase the top of the leaderboard. We built the whole competition system — registration form, game-session handling, live leaderboard, and admin panel — capturing participant scores and contact details for prize draws and marketing follow-up.

What the system does

Registration — Name, company, email with built-in validation and a GDPR marketing opt-in
Game integration — Automatically creates game sessions via Million Games' launcher API
Score tracking — Background polling fetches results directly from the game's API
Live leaderboard — Real-time rankings with pagination and auto-refresh
Duplicate prevention — The same email redirects to an active session instead of creating a new one
Admin panel — Password-protected view to manage, sort, edit, and delete entries
Self-contained build — A single .NET binary serves both the API and the frontend, trivial to deploy on a show-floor laptop

Competition rules

15 minutes to compete
Last 10 rounds count toward your score
Highest score wins!

The Platform

Registration page with the Million Games logo, the Chicken X and Friends title, and a form for name, company, email and a GDPR marketing opt-in — on a top-down in-game background

Live leaderboard showing top-ranked players, companies and scores over the same in-game background as the registration page

Tech stack

Frontend: Vue 3, TypeScript, Nuxt UI 4, Tailwind CSS 4, Vite, Valibot

Backend: .NET 9, C#, Entity Framework Core, SQLite

Deploy: Self-contained .NET binary — no external database or runtime required on the show-floor laptop