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COIN WARS

Installation

Install requirements and run python on the coinwars directory at repo root level beside README.md.

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• python3 coinwars/

Known Bugs

Sorry, the app crashes if the terminal window is not big enough or when the window is resized.

• _curses.error: addwstr() returned ERR occurs when you start a game and there's not enough room. Decrease your terminal text size or make your window bigger to make room for what the game expects!
• _curses.error: no input occurs when you resize the window.

Summary

Here's a fun text-based version of a game called Coin Wars. Coin Wars is a physical, tactile, turn-based, strategy game. That's to say: players take turns flicking coins trying to knock their opponent's pieces off a table. There's two teams: heads and tails. The last player with coins still on the table wins.

To spice things up, different coins have special abilities. Dimes are light, easy to knock around, and don't pack much of a punch when they're trying to push other coins off the table. However! Dimes convert other coins. If a dime is flicked and hits another coin then that coin is flipped, like flipped from heads to tails. A player can flick one dime to tap two enemy quarters and flip them so they're on the dime's team now.

• Read the rules! coinwars.org
• coinwars.org/ascii