A clone of Netacka (https://pwmarcz.pl/netacka/) I did for my Computer Network course. The idea is simple: we are a snake-like creature and our goal is to survive. We lose if we touch other players or the walls.
The whole task is described in Polish in zadanie_2/zadanie_2.txt.
The game consists of three parts:
- Server - uses UDP to communicate with the Client and has all the game logic
- Client - is a bridge between the GUI app and the server
- GUI - uses TCP to communicate with the client, sending it the keypresses and receiving display instructions - was provided by teacher
The system is object oriented. All C code required for Linux internet connections has been nicely wrapped in the Sock, IPAddress and Connectors classes.
I implemented a simple binary reader/writer to enable easier parsing of messages and producing the bytes from a message object.
make
To run the game you also have to compile the gui
cd zadanie2/gui/gui3 # or gui2 for GTK2
make
First run the server
./siktacka-server [-W n] [-H n] [-p n] [-s n] [-t n] [-r n]
Where -W and -H are the width and height of the board, -p is port number (12345 by default), -s is the game speed in ROUNDS_PER_SECOND (50 by default), -t is the TURNING SPEED (6 by default) and -r is the seed for the random generator.
Then run the GUI
./zadanie2/gui/gui3/gui [port]
Then run the client
./siktacka-client player_name game_sever_host[:port] [ui_server_host[:port]]
Where the default values are 12345 for game server port, localhost for ui server and 12346 for its port.
To start a game you need at least two players connected to the server. When all players are pressing one of the arrows (sending a turn signal) the game will start.
A player without a name can only be a spectator.