GIGS stands for Generic Internet Game Server Quickstart ---------- 1. Build the server If you have ant, you can just run "ant compile" from the project root directory. 2. Run the server "java -cp bin:lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar net.mightybyte.gigs.GigsServer [port]" (If you don't specify a port, it defaults to 8000.) Once the server is running, you can test it out by connecting two clients and playing a game. Connect to the server with "telnet localhost 8000" and log in with a user name of your choice. Once you have at least two users connected to the server you can start a game. Let's say the two usernames are alice and bob. Alice can start a game of tron with the match command: match bob 2 12 tron Bob will then see a match request. The game will not start until Bob types "accept". Both players can then enter moves to play the game. Moves for each game vary. Moves for tron are a single character, one of "nsew" representing a move to the north, south, east, or west respectively. For information about other commands supported by the server look at the files commands.txt and commands.props. Then read the source code. :)