Fantasy Chess is a command line game written in C++ where the chess pieces have special characteristics.

Each piece has it's own special movement and attack.

The objective of this assignment was to build a system rich with design patterns such that is is easy to compose functionality, maintain, extend and many more niceties that come with GOF design patterns.

The design is pretty well documented in guide.doc and has many accompanying images of UML diagrams in the UML-Images.zip, and the UML diagrams in umbrello in MASTER UML.xmi

Overview

Factory Method is used to create a board of user-specified dimensions, although only a 2D board is implemented

Prototype is used to create prototypical instances of the respective piece types aiding the creation process

Decorator harnesses recursive composition to 'decorate' pieces with their appropriate spells

State is used to control the players turn and alternate between teams

Strategy is used to setup the board according to a random or fixed placement of pieces and to transparently treat each piece composing of a reach strategy that affects the way it moves

Interpreter is used to parse user input into data the program can process ( this pattern is responsible for much of the preemptive error checking and validation)

Template Method is defined by the 'Team turn cycle' which is comprised of primitive operations of select, spell and move. This pattern looks surprisingly like strategy because all of the 'primitive operations' are redefined in subclasses

The repo consists of

• src/
• fixtures/
• documentation/
• README.md
• valgrind-memory-check

The src/Makefile is used to perform all operations.

To build & run the game

• $ git clone git@github.com:sighmin/fantasy-chess to clone the repo
• $ cd fantasy-chess/src && make && make run to build & run

Once built you can run it

• $ make run or
• $ ./FantasyChess

It should compile on any *nix system with g++.

A full list of available commands

• $ make
• Builds the executable
• $ make ll
• Builds the executable in parallel (linking still takes a while)
• $ make run
• Runs the game
• $ make clean
• Removes all temporary build files (nice to run after you've built)
• $ make gdb
• Starts gdb to run the game to check for memory leaks
• $ make tar
• Compresses the source files and makefile to share
• $ make dep
• Shows auto-generated dependency tree
• $ make sing
• Sings a tunes (turn on your volume)
• $ make team1wins
• Run a set game to test the outcome
• $ make team2wins
• Run a set game to test the outcome
• $ make stalemate
• Run a set game to test the outcome

The game is setup as 2 teams of equal, even number of players, playing against one another on one board, taking turns. Every turn a player can cast all the spells of every piece on the board, but can only make one move of a piece.

Each piece has a life force, a unique move, and possibly spells.

Every turn a player first selects a piece. Once a piece is selected it will show the piece's specific characteristics. The piece can then accept commands like a spell, or a move. Once a move is made, the game changes turn to the alternate team, and gives the next player on that team a chance to play.

1. FootSoldier, F

• Life : 6
• Move : 2 squares in any direction

2. Knight, K

• Life : 10
• Move : L shapes of 3 + 1 move

3. Phantom, P

• Life : 5
• Move : 2 squares in any direction
• Spells : Teleport in any direction. Each square you move, costs your piece one life force

4. Necromancer, N

• Life : 6
• Move : 1 square in any direction
• Spells : Resurrect the last piece that died by sacrificing any piece within a 3 square radius

5. Healer, H

• Life : 6
• Move : 5 squares in diagonals
• Spells : Restore any friendly pieces' life within a 3 square radius
• This spell has no effect on Phantoms

6. King, X

• Life : 30
• Move : 3 squares in any direction
• Spells : Swap king with a friendly piece any where on the board
• You may only cast this once per game!

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2010 Simon van Dyk, Dean Marsden

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