Digitize is a stratego-style two player game. Players take turns moving their pieces, called "Links", in order to download 4 Data or make their opponent download 4 Viruses (Data and Viruses are types of Links). Each player has eight links- four Viruses and four Data, each with a strength 1-4 (unique for their data type). Players also choose five abilities- special effects which can help them in their gameplay.
After cloning, type make to build the project.
Run ./digitize to run the game without X11 graphics.
Pass the -graphics flag to enable X11 graphics (XLib must be installed).
Pass the -link1 <placement-file.txt> or -link2 <placement-file.txt> flags to control where links are placed for player one and two respectively- examples include the provided placementP1.txt and placementP2.txt files.
Pass the -ability1 <XXXXX> or -ability2 <XXXXX> to control what abilities each player has- by default the ability string XXXXX is LFDSP, but you can make the string any five characters from LFDSPRHO, where each letter stands for a different ability and you can only pick up to two of the same ability.
Note: the ability-character associations are as follows:
- L: Link Boost
- F: Firewall
- D: Download
- S: Scan
- P: Polarize
- R: Link Reborn
- H: High Ground
- O: Portal
Note: in game, type "help" to get more information on all commands, and "abilities" to get more information on your abilities.
MVC Architecture- used to organize the flow of commands between different modules (user only interacts with the model).
Strategy Design Pattern- used with the Ability class to enable creating/editing/removing new abilities as needed.
Simple Factory Idiom- used to seperate Link objects into Virus and Data objects, created at runtime.
Observer Design Pattern- coupled with the MVC to enable a pub/sub control flow where moves are observed by the X11 graphics view, and the terminal view.
RAII- adhered to RAII principles through smart pointers, vectors, maps, and other C++ containers to enable automatic resource management/cleanup.
Exception Handling/Safety- implemented strong exception guarantees with most functions that would throw.
