🃏 Pali - 3D Multiplayer Godot Card Game

Pali is a 3D multiplayer Godot trade card game (TCG).

This repository holds everything needed to export and run a personal dedicated server for the game, and game clients. The code can be used as a base for your own card game.

Rules for the game

Goal of the game is to build a hand of 5 cards that exceeds the points of your opponents 5 cards in their hand.
The game has 25 cards total and starts by dealing 5 cards randomly to each player.
It is turn based, every turn, you can either:
1. Place a card from your hand onto the table
2. or switch a card from the table with one in your hand.
When there are no more cards in the deck, the game is over and points are tallied to determine the winner.
There is no time limit

Point counting

Every card has a point value near the top to represent their base points
Every card also has a "category", in this example it is "Engineer" for the Aerospace Engineer card. For every other card in your hand that is also an engineer, you get another +2 points added to your hand.
Some cards may optionally have some "tags". In this example, the Aerospace engineer card has 2 tags, "Nature" and "White Coat". For every other card in your hand that has any of the same tags, you get an additonal +1 point added to your hand per tag.
Finally, cards have a special relationship with 1 or 2 other cards in the game that are in different categories. For this example, the Aerospace Engineer gets a +6 point boost if you also have the "Psychologist" card in your hand.

Points are automatically calculated and shown in the bottom right/left sides of the screen.

Controls

There are minimal controls:

Left mouse clicking - click to select card in hand, then click empty space on table to place card, or, click another card on table to show a popup to confirm a switch
Z - to zoom into the table and get a better top-down view to read the cards on the table

How to export dedicated server

The game is not peer-to-peer, but relies on a dedicated server, every server can handle only 2 peer connections, once 2 peers are connected - the game begins.

If you have a server IP address, place it in Global.gd as the SERVER_ADDRESS, then export the dedicated server and client using the presets already available.

Credits

The 3D assets are from @KayLousberg from their "furniture bits" itch.io page
UI font is Noto Sans, available from Google Fonts
Card flip sounds are from freesound.org
Card images were generted using A.I, from the tool Layer
Everything else was created from scratch by Jason Rametta in Blender or other softwares

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