Lorenzo Il Magnifico

Team Members:

• Endi Sukaj - [email protected] - 811819
• Leonardo Panerai - [email protected] - 828473
• Matteo Rubiu - [email protected] - 827117

How to play:

In order to play this game you'll have to run a CLIENT and a SERVER:

• SERVER: to start server you've to run the main method of GameServer's class that can be found in the path: [it.polimi.ingsw.gc31.server].

• CLIENT: the client can be start in three different classes in the path: [it.polimi.ingsw.gc31.client]

  • ClientApp: start a client and choose to use CLI or JAVAFX;

  • ClientCLI: start a client using Command Line Interface (CLI);

  • ClientFX: start a client using JAVAFX;

  After choosing a UI, independently from where did you start it, you'll be asked to enter a Username, followed by the serverIP to which connect, and finally the Connection Method that can be SOCKET or RMI.

Project Structure:

The project adopts a Model View Controller (MVC) Pattern and is divided into several packages:

• SERVER: this side uses to following packages in [it.polimi.ingsw.gc31]:
  • controller
  • enumerations
  • exceptions
  • messages
  • model
• CLIENT:
  • client
  • enumerations
  • messages
  • view

You can find UML's diagrams for this project:

• uml_diagram1: only classes and relationships;

• uml_diagram2: classes with methods;

• uml_diagram3: classes with methods and attributes (Not package "view", because is too big).

Configuration Files:

Configuration files can be found in src/config. They are used to define the various configurable elements of the game such as the cards, board, player tiles and excommunication tiles.

• Card.json: defines all the cards with their values.

• Settings.json: general settings for the game, it has three main parts:

  • gameSettings: in here you can define the wait time (in seconds) before starting a new game and the wait time for a player move. serverWait and playerWait respectively
  • parchments: the various parchment effects.
  • gameBoard: the game board.

• PlayerTile.json defines the five player tiles that can be used. The first one (ID = 0) is the default one when playing with simplified rules.

  • rules: defines the rules whether to use the default player tile or advanced one. To use the default player tile for all players, set this to default.

• FaithTile.json defines all the faith tiles.

• FaithPoints Defines the number of victory points you get for an amount of faith points.