Stratego /strəˈtiːɡoʊ/ is a strategy board game for two players on a board of 10×10 squares. Each player controls 40 pieces representing individual officer ranks in an army. The objective of the game is to find and capture the opponent's Flag, or to capture so many enemy pieces that the opponent cannot make any further moves. Stratego has simple enough rules for young children to play, but a depth of strategy that is also appealing to adults.

@nuttywhal and @david-henderson implemented this board game as a final project for SER 215 (Software Enterprise II) in Fall 2014 during our third semester at Arizona State University. It was written as a distributed application using a client–server model. The server awaits socket connections from two different clients and then dispatches a thread to handle a game session between those clients. The server is responsible for information security and enforcing the game rules so that players may not modify the game client in order to cheat.

Building

# Clone the GitHub respository and `cd' into it.
git clone https://github.com/nuttywhal/stratego.git && cd stratego/

# Compile all of the *.java files into *.class files.
javac -cp src/edu/asu/stratego/**/*.java src/edu/asu/stratego/*.java -d temp/

# Copy all of the image assets.
cd src && cp --parents edu/asu/stratego/**/*.png ../temp && cd ..

# Create executable JAR files for the client and the server.
jar cvfm bin/client.jar src/manifest/client.mf -C temp/ .
jar cvfm bin/server.jar src/manifest/server.mf -C temp/ .

# Clean up.
rm -r temp/

… at this point in time, we did not know about build automation tools. 😭

Running

# Executing the client...
java -jar bin/client.jar &

# Executing the server...
java -jar bin/server.jar

Screenshot