C# implementation of the board game Settlers of Catan, with a University/Campus theme.

Idea from the project in UNSW CSE COMP1711 computing course in 2002, lecturer Richard Buckland.

• Install Mono

Build:

$ xbuild SimUniversity.ConsoleUI/SimUniversity.ConsoleUI.csproj

Start the Console UI

$ mono SimUniversity.ConsoleUI/bin/Release/MingStar.SimUniversity.ConsoleUI.exe

Then press Enter to play a game.

• No player trading (yet)
• No robber
• No development cards, instead players can found startup companies with a 20% success rate
• No limitations on the number of campuses (settlements) and super campuses (cities)

• Resource are Wood, Brick, Ore, Grain and Sheep (as student degrees are too hard to remember)
• Acquire students from the 2nd campus in the setup phase (same as Catan)
• When a startup company failed, no card stealing from other players (yet)

• .NET Game Engine

  • support multiple games
  • support multiple clients
  • with a WCF/web service interface (to support game clients written in other languages)
  • simple user management

• Game Engine admin/viewer (Front end)

• .NET Game Client (Console/Web UI)

  • join a game
  • play a multi-player game
  • Display the game

• Added round results after the AI tournament in learning
• Write tests for the game play
• Have another AI to search all possible moves within the turn (particular useful in late game)
• Enable deep copy of game state (so AI won't be possible to break the actual game)
• Persist game state

• Remove game state hashing