draughts-online

To build the project simply run

stack build

To host the game run

stack run draughts-online-host-exe [PORT]

where PORT is the port on wich you want the host to be accessible. By default PORT = 8080

To play the game run

stack run draughts-online-client-exe

Usage

After running the client, you will be presented with 3 buttons: Play Game, Watch Game and Exit. You can select the buttons using arrows and ENTER.

• selecting Exit will exit the game
• after selecting Play Game or Watch Game you will be prompted to enter the adress of the host. (You do not have to prefix the host with 'http://') For example:

  Enter the game host address:
  localhost:8080
  

  After enering the host adress, you will see the game board.
  • If you sellected Watch Game, you will only observe the game
  • If you selected Play Game you will be assigned pieces of a certain color and will be able to move them when it is your turn.

While in the game you will be able to move pieces by selecting a piece and selecting which direction to move the piece. Selecting both pieces and directions is done using arrows and ENTER. Before selecting a piece / direction it will be highlighted which piece / direction you will chose if you press ENTER. When selecting the direction you can press ESC and return to selecting the a piece.

While in the game / watching the game you can return to the menu bu pressing ESC. Be careful, because once you exit to the menu, you won't be able to rejoin the game, the client will attempt to join again, but the host will treat you as a new player and reject you, since both players alredy joined. (I left this inconvenience, due to the inconvenience of implementing yet another little detail like this.)

Tests

Note that the only things that are automatically tested in this project are game mechanics and conversion to and from JSON. This is due to the fact that everything else has IO actions entangled in it.