project02

Project 2: The Final Frontier

Maia Brydon, Ela Gulsen, Shafali Gupta, Michelle Tang (pd 5)

Description

Our project is based on the card game, You’ve Got Crabs. Players break up into groups of two and try to win as many crabs as possible.

To start, the team will get a secret signal which will indicate when a person has ‘crabs.’ In our version, it will be a secret phrase/codeword that only the two members have access to. Each player then gets four cards and the objective (to get ‘crabs’) is to have four of a kind.

The teammates must sit across from each other, forming two different sides. At any given time, only one side can play (therefore only one of the players can be active). Meanwhile, the other side will be watching to see if the signal is given. There will be four cards on the table. For the active side, the player will have the opportunity to switch any card on the table with any card in their hand so that they can try and get four of a kind. They can make as many switches as possible and when they are done, they place their hand down and the other side goes. If no switches are made on both sides, then the four new cards are drawn for the table.

If a person has four of a kind, they will secretly signal their teammate. If the teammate sees the signal, they will call out “You’ve got crabs!” and the team will be awarded a crab (point). If an opposing teammate sees the signal (having correctly guesses what it is), that team will win the point instead. If “You’ve got crabs!” is prematurely called out, meaning that the person does not have a four of a kind, that team will lose a crab (point).

After the point is awarded, the player gets four new cards from the deck. The game continues until a team gets five points.

Teammates are randomly assigned a secret signal to use with each other. When one partner has achieved crabs, they might transmit words like “tomato”, “rose”, “apple”, and “heart”. To trick opponents, a partner could bluff by signaling “blueberry” when they do not have crabs (which seems like it could fit into the “tomato”/”apple” pattern without more information).

How to run this project:

Find your IP address of the SERVER and type it into networking.h, LINE 19, #define TEST_IP [your ip here]
Type 'make' into the terminal
To run the server: ./server 4
To run the clients: ./client, for each client that you listed would be playing when you declared the number of players. The game will not start until this number of players has joined.
And you're done! Enjoy the game.

User commands:

To make moves, type these commands:

end end your turn. Then you won't be able to swap cards, but there will be another player playing.
swap You can swap any card from your hand with one of the cards on the table. You will be prompted after to give the index's of each card.
new table Changes the cards on the table. The user can only do it once per game.

Bugs:

The teams are hardcoded, as in you cannot pick your team member. The first two players that join (players 0 and 1) make up team 1. Players 2 and 3 make up team 2.
Players cannot make a custom signal between themselves, but rather are given a random signal that is the same as the one given to their partner.
Need to include your IP address in networking.h for the clients to connect properly
Instead of the server maintaining one deck, the clients each have their own deck.
The person who just played does not get to see the message of the next player.
The teams get separate messages. (They would get the same if we moved randomize to the server file but we didn't realize that until it was too late).
Checking for crabs does not work. (Works respectively in the client and in the server but not together.)