Tic Tac Toe

This C++ program uses the WinSock2 libaray to create a UDP scoket between two computers in order to send the location of the respected players marker (player 1 is 'X' and player 2 is 'O').

One key feature of the Tic Tac Toe Program is that the program has automatic checks in place to see if there is a winner, loser and a tie, and sends the appropriate message to the console

Another key feature is that Tic Tac Toe will automatically quit if a user takes to long to place a marker (this can be changed in the wait function call, by deafult is set to 20 seconds and 0 milliseconds). If the user takes to long to place a piece then the user is alerted that he has lost and the opponent has won the match by deafult, with respected message to conosle of respeted player.

Another key feature is that Tic Tac Toe has limits on what input can we accepeted, only ints can be accepted and ints only in the range of 1-9 (places on game board). When a user inputs a invailid input the user will be prompted that the input was not accept and will ask for another input.

Another key feature is that Tic Tac Toe will kepp track of who is playing who by logging the IP address of the player and when the program recives a UDP datagram it will compare it to the IP address in a varible in the program and if the IP address match Tic Tac Toe will continue to place marker on game board.

How To Run Rational

Requirments

Visual Studio 2019-2022

Running Tic Tac Toe

1. Clone this repo by pasting git clone https://github.com/Joshua-Sutton/Tic-Tac-Toe.git into terminal
2. Open and new Visual Studio project
3. Import the files in this repository playTicTacToe.cpp, TicTacToe.cpp, Utilities.cpp, and TicTacToe.h
4. Run Crtl + F5
5. Input a name in the What is your name input
6. Select 1 to host a Tic Tac Toe game
7. Open another command propmt via Crtl + F5
8. Input a name in the What is your name input
9. Select 2 to challenge someone alrealy hosting a Tic Tac Toe game
10. Then you will need to input your IP address in the What is your IP address: box
11. Then you will need to input your subnet in the What is your subnet address: box
12. Then type y to accept challenge
13. Input a number 1 - 9 when prompted with Where would you like to place marker:
14. Keep placing markers untill you see TIE ... boo indicating a tie or You lose indicating you lost or YOU WIN indicating that you won the game
15. Then select 1 if you like to host again, or select 2 if you would like to challenge again or select 3 to quit the program

Example

Clinet Side (Challenger)

What is your name? player2

Choose an option:
1 - Host a game of Tic-Tac-Toe
2 - Challenge someone else
3 - Quit
Enter 1, 2 or 3: 2

Looking for Tic Tac Toe servers...
What is your IP address? 10.35.165.41
What is your subnet mask? 255.255.240.0
Found Tic Tac Toe server: player1

Do you want to challenge player1? y
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1  |  2  |  3
_____|_____|_____
   |     |
4  |  5  |  6
_____|_____|_____
   |     |
7  |  8  |  9
   |     |
You are X's.
Where would you like to place piece? 5

Server Side (Host)

What is your name? player1

Choose an option:
1 - Host a game of Tic-Tac-Toe
2 - Challenge someone else
3 - Quit
Enter 1, 2 or 3: 1

Waiting for a challenge...

Received: Who?
Sent: Name=player1

Received: Player=player2

You have been challenged by player2
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1  |  2  |  3
_____|_____|_____
   |     |
4  |  5  |  6
_____|_____|_____
   |     |
7  |  8  |  9
   |     |
... waiting for opponet ...