bhanditz / pretendyourexyzzyreborn

A completely rewritten implementation of the CAH game

Discontinued

This isn't a so great idea, but rewriting the old client is. See there for a glorified version of PYX.

PretendYoureXyzzyReborn

This is a clone of ajanata/PretendYoureXyzzy, but better.

This version of the game server can run on every platform that supports Java. It uses Websockets to communicate.

Get up and running

All you need is a machine with Java installed and a copy of the cards database of PYX (can be found in the repo).

Server

The server is command-line only. All you need to specify is the path of the cards database. To customize the settings look at the Config class. To run the packed JAR file:

java -jar pyx-server.jar --cards-db ./pyx.sqlite

By default the server will start on port 6969. To change it:

java -jar pyx-server.jar --cards-db ./pyx.sqlite --server-port 1234

Client

The client can be run either in command-line mode or in GUI mode.

Command-line mode

To start the client in command-line mode use the --console argument:

java -jar pyx-client.jar --console

The console mode is recommended for testing purposes only. The game is not playable on the console.

GUI mode

To play the game you would likely start the client in GUI mode. To do that you can execute the JAR like so:

java -jar pyx-client.jar

Once the client is started you'll be prompted to input a server address and a nickname. The server address will be something like this:

ws://localhost:9696/

Note the ws://, that's important as we are communicating over Websockets!

Admin

To login as an admin you need to know the admin code. The admin code is generated by the server every 60 seconds and it's outputted to the console. Admin has higher priority than a normal user therefore it can always login to the server (even if the server is full or if another user with the same username exists).