Coolopoly

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Coolopoly is a board game similar to the classic Monopoly game.

This program was written for a programming competition and is therefore provisional in some places. (See below.)

How To Run The Client

1. Download Coolopoly.jar from the latest release.
2. Open your shell and run the client using java -jar [path to Coolopoly.jar].
3. Enter a username and the server address to join the current game.

How To Run The Server

Please note: Currently it is not possible to manually specify a port with the current release. The port is hard-coded as 1337.

1. Download Coolopoly-Server.jar from the latest release.
2. Open your shell and run the server using java -jar [path to Coolopoly-Server.jar] [max players] The argument “max players” specifies the maximum of players that are allowed to join. Enter a large number to use the maximum allowed by the game (8).

How To Play

1. Run the client as described above.
2. Enter an unique username, as well as the server address and port separated with a colon. (E.g. 192.168.0.0:1337 or localhost:1337.)
3. Select “Just watching“ if you only want to watch as a spectator.
4. Submit the form and press “I'm ready!” in the upper right corner if you are ready.
5. Use the red button in the bottom right corner to dice and continue to the next player.
6. Use the green shopping cart button to buy a property.
7. Use the green arrow down button to manage your properties and to buy houses/servers.

To Be Improved

1. The port is currently still stored as a constant in the program code. It should be passed as an argument.
2. Community/Chance card dialogs are only displayed for the first player.