Arc_en_Cercles v0.0.3

Arc en Cercles

Arc en Cercles is a Open-Source game. It uses a server with NodeJS and a web browser as a client.

Actually, the game is playable but a lot of things is happening in back-end to implement a neural-network and a genetic algorithm (yeah !).

Features

• Server side algorithm: no cheating and scoreboard management,
• Different level of difficulty (with more colours),
• Can play game globally (on all client at the same time) or not,
• API to let AI or bots play the game,
• Responsive web client: you can even play this on a e-ink tablet!

Planned features

• Scoreboard with Google's LevelDB database,
• Shapes on client side (fed of circles),
• Better algorithm implementation,
• Switch client to Bootstrap 4 when Twitter will be releasing it,
• Implement client on Apache Cordova to make a iOS and Android nativ app.

And much more coming!

How to build and host a server

You need to have NodeJS with NPM on your machine.

• Clone the project, go to the project directory
• Download dependencies : npm install
• Launch the server : npm start
• The server will be available on http://localhost:3000/

How to use the text client to code AI or bots

• Go to the project directory
• Launch the server (previous paragraph)
• Open a new shell and launch the client : node client/client.js or npm test
• If you set the game to global in server/config.json then you will be able to see the game in realtime in a browser.

The output of the client is a line of text. It's composed of integer like so :

• 1 int for the turn number,
• 1 int for the total turn number,
• 1 int for the actual score,
• 16x16 int for the table (top left first).

The input must be 4 integers separated with spaces :

• 2 int for the coordinates (x, y) of the first click,
• 2 int for the coordinates (x, y) of the second click.

The coordinates are between 0 and 15 for a grid size of 16.

Author

• NodeJS game by Alexandre IOOSS
• Original game created by a group for a baccalaureate project (ISN).