This is a strategy game based on the Dark Forest Principle--the universe is like a dark and cold forest, all civilizations are like hunters trying to hide themselves and kill any spotted enemy hunters. Player will be given a new primitive civilization which is unknown to the rest of the universe. Player will gain certain amounts of development points that can be used to develop technology,society and culture each time unit.After a certain time or a certain development level players will encounter other civilizations either proactively or passively depends on the details of the development of player's civilization. Based on the Dark Forest Principle the two civilization will only try to destroy each other and only one civilization will survive. The goal of the player is to survive as long as possible, and eliminate all other civilizations.
Anyone could play this game, especially those who has read the Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem.I'm very interested in the book and dark forest principle. That's the main motivation that trigger me to do this project.
A bulleted list:
- As a user, I want to have a primitive civilization every time I start a new game.
- As a user, I want to customize the size of enemy civilizations and add them to the Universe class(to make this game fair,enemy civilizations' details information is randomly formed. Players can only determine the number of enemy civilizations in this universe)
- As a user, I want to be assigned a certain amounts of development points each time unit.
- As a user, I want to be able to add development points to one of three fields, namely, technology,society and culture.
- As a user, I want to be able to make decision each time unit about whether should I proactively reach out to other civilizations after a certain level of technology.
- As a user, I want to be able to make my own choices which could influence the gaming process.
- As a user, I want to be able to end one time unit after I've finished all my action.
- As a user, I want be able to record how many time units I've survived after my civilization's been destroyed, and be able to choose whether to start a new round of game or not.
- As a user, I want to be able to choose to quit at the end of each round and store my current gaming process.
- As a user, at the welcome panel, I want to have an option to reload my stored state of the gaming process.
#PHASE 4: TASK 2
- Design and test a robust class: civilization class methods: civilDevelopment(t,s,c)
- Type hierarchy: In persistence package, subclass "CivilizationReader" and "UniverseReader" extends super class "Reader" subclass "CivilizationWriter" and "UniverseWriter" extend super class "Writer" In ui package, subclass "CivilizationPanel","NewGamePanel", "TutorialPanel" and "WelcomePanel" extend abstract "Panel". Additionally, "CivilizationPanel" is extended by "PrimitiveCivilizationPanel","Level1CivilizationPanel", "Level2CivilizationPanel" and "StarPluckerPanel"
#PHASE 4 : TASK 3
Future refactoring:
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There is a bidirectional association between the civilization class and universe class. However, some of the methods fail to follow the association. For instance, the removeCivilization(Civilization cv) method in Universe only removes civilization from the universe but doesn't call civilization to change its own universe field.
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In civilization panel, there is a JLabel indicates the summary of the civilization. For now, the JLabel will update every round. I want to refactor it so the JLabel will update when every there's change in civilization. I will use Observer design pattern, by making civilization extend Observable and make the panel implement Observer.
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The biggest problem of this project is probably that I hardcoded all the texts, which makes it extremely hard if I want to change the contents later.I'll change it later by refactoring those into lang or something else.