ExplodingKittens61

Hello from Team 61, Ervinas and Ugnius! We hope that you will have a smooth setup of Exploding Kittens and find this guide useful.

*This project was created using IntelliJ IDEA, and works best when run on this platform. For VSCode you will need to add .json files for configuration.

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What can be found where?

Our project is divided into 4 main directories, with the fifth one consisting of our few tests:

• client
• exploding_kittens
• local
• server
• tests

CLIENT:

Includes all classes related to playing a game of Exploding Kittens through a network from the client's side. It has:

• ExplodingKittensClient - Direct connection to the server and is responsible for managing it.
• ClientController - The main brains of a client, initializes through its main method to start a client.
• Extra subclasses of ClientController for concurrent play with multiple players (clients).
• ClientTUI - Responsible for textual user interface and receiving input from the user directly.

EXPLODING_KITTENS:

Includes the basic game logic and all the resources used by different Controllers to run an Exploding Kittens game. It has:

• Interfaces for PlayerTUI and Controller.
• Classes for game functionality, including custom Exception classes, Card class and its subclasses, Player class and its subclass Computer, Game class, Deck class, and Hand class.

LOCAL:

Includes LocalController class, which is the control panel for running a game of Exploding Kittens locally (on the same terminal). It is a subclass of Controller and is adapted to work with the basic game logic from the exploding_kittens directory. This directory also includes LocalPlayerTUI, responsible for communication with the players.

SERVER:

Includes:

• ServerTUI - Responsible for any output shown on the server console.
• ExplodingKittensServer - Initializes and accepts server connections, creating new threads to handle separate clients (players) through ClientHandler.
• ServerController - The brains of hosting the server, starting the game, following the basic game logic, and controlling communication with different clients and taking their requests.

Chat functionality: Our game includes the ability to chat among clients during gameplay, with a separate server called ChatServer and ChatClientHandler in the server's subdirectory chat. The client directory contains a subdirectory chat, where ChatClient class and its subclasses are located and should be run through their main methods to start the chat.

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How to start a game

1. Local gameplay

To play a game locally:

1. Right-click on the LocalController class.

2. Go to "More Run/Debug" and then to "Modify run configuration...".

3. In the "Program arguments" field, type the arguments following this template: <number of players> <'1' if one of the players is a computer player and '0' if not> <namePlayer1> <namePlayer2> <namePlayer3>.

   • Example: 3 1 Ervinas Matas (game of 2 players with names Ervinas and Matas, and the third player is a computer player).

   • Be aware of the following rules for program arguments:

     • <number of players>: The total number of players, should be between 2 and 5.
     • <'1' if one of the players is a computer player and '0' if not>: 1 if one of the players is a computer player, 0 if not.
     • <namePlayer1> <namePlayer2> <namePlayer3>: Names of the players, separated by spaces.

4. Press "Apply" and "Okay".

5. Right-click the LocalController class and press "Run LocalController.main()".

2. Network gameplay

To play a game through a network:

1. Start a server:

   • Right-click on the ServerController class.

   • Go to "More Run/Debug" and then to "Modify run configuration...".

   • In the "Program arguments" field, type the arguments following this template: <number of players> <'1' if one of the players is a computer player and '0' if not> <port number>.

     • Example: 3 1 6744 (game of two players who will be connected through network on port 6744, and one local computer player).

     • Be aware of the following rules for program arguments:

       • <number of players>: The total number of players, should be between 2 and 5.
       • <'1' if one of the players is a computer player and '0' if not>: 1 if one of the players is a computer player, 0 if not.
       • <port number>: A valid port number for the server.

2. Press "Apply" and "Okay".

3. Right-click the ServerController class and press "Run ServerController.main()".

4. Modify the program arguments for the ClientController class:

   • In the "Program arguments" field, type the arguments following this template: <serverAddress> <portNumber>.

     • Example: localhost 6744 (client is connecting to server with the address "localhost" on port 6744).

   • Be aware of the following rules for program arguments:

     • <serverAddress>: The address of the server.
     • <portNumber>: The port number to connect to.

5. Run the ClientController class.

6. Type in your nickname.

7. Repeat the process for each client/player you want to connect Client2Controller, Client3Controller, etc...

Chat functionality

To use the chat functionality:

1. Run ChatServer class with program arguments being only the valid port number.

   • Examples: 6283, 5422.

2. After running ChatServer, each player(client) can initialize their ChatClient classes with program arguments <serverAddress> <portNumber> (similar to the program arguments in ClientController class). Then run ChatClient.main() for each client Chat2Client.main(), Chat3Client.main() etc...

3. Type in your nickname and start chatting with other clients connected to the chat server.

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References

Authors:

• Ervinas Vilkaitis | e.vilkaitis@student.utwente.nl
• Ugnius Tulaba | u.tulaba@student.utwente.nl

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