Game Requirements

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dripton edited this page Aug 17, 2010 · 1 revision

Important Features

Allow playing Titan against network and AI opponents
Server must enforce the rules and never trust clients
Portable to (at least) Linux, Windows, MacOS
Simple, usable GUI
Support standalone battles
Allow spectators
Unlimited undo/redo, but prevent cheating undo versus humans
Saving/loading games
Master server for finding games, statistics tracking
Unit tests for everything possible
Minimal duplicated code

Simplifications versus Colossus

No variants (at first)
No threads
Very few options
Python instead of Java
Twisted PB instead of raw socket protocol
Hardcoded dictionaries/lists for data, so no parsers