RingMaster

Another game developed in under 24hours for the CSH Game Jam!

Overview

A Player card is in the center Ring of 5 Action Card Slots. Players may place Action Cards into any Action Card Slot not currently in use by another Action Card. At the end of each turn, the Ring rotates all Cards clockwise by the number on the Rotation Number Card, which sits to the right of the Ring. Passive Effect Cards may be placed in the singular Passive Effect Card slot left of the Ring. Each player must strategically place Cards on the Ring and control the Rotation Rate of their Ring and the Enemy's Ring. The goal is to reduce the Enemy Player's Player Card to 0 health points; before they do!

Starting a Game

The Player hosting the Game must create a Hosted Game. The Second Player must then connect to the Hosting Player's Game by providing the IP Address of the Host Player as an argument when starting the game.

Game Setup

Place your Player Card in the center of the Ring
Place a 1 Rotation Card in the Rotation Card Slot
Draw five Cards from your Deck
The player hosting the game goes first

Turn Procedure

Play an Action Card on the Ring, or play a Rotation Control Card in the Rotation Card Slot
If present, activate the Action Card in the Action Card Slot
Rotate Ring by amount on the active Rotation Card
Draw a Card

Game Output

The below is an example of the board before the first move is made

RingMaster! Connecting.......Connected!

    N     N

  N    @    N

       N      1
---------------------
1      N

  N    @    N

    N     N

1. MONSTER, ATTACK
2. MONSTER, ATTACK
3. BIG_MONSTER, ATTACK
4. POTION, SINGLE_USE
5. POTION, SINGLE_USE
>

Your board is on the bottom of the dashed separator. Your Player Card (@) sits undefended in the middle of all the Empty Cards (N). Your enemy has the same setup above the dashed line, but mirrored.

The number in the top-left corner of you board is the current Rotation Card in play. At the start, both players will have their Rings rotated by one. Keep in mind the Rings will rotate Clockwise.

Your hand is the numbered list. The name of the card is on the left, and the type is on the right. To choose a card, its number is next to it.

The '>' indicates that the game is waiting for your input.

Game Commands

The below is an example of what running the available command set looks like.

> menu
play card pos - Place a card on the Ring
quit - Quit the game

> play 3 5
Placed card at 5.
Added MONSTER to hand.
Rotated CW by 1.

Dependencies

Java: 1.6
Maven Library: apache-maven-3.0.4

Source Control

Github: https://github.com/grnt426/RingMaster

Building

mvn clean package

Executing

As Server

mvn exec:java

As Client

mvn exec:java -Dexec.args=ip_address