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Skat game engine

Engine intented to be able to completely simulate Skat card game, as well as act in a bot-like manner.

Compiled program uses CLI interface as to demonstrate library's abilities.

Notes

Game implements official rules without any local additions (no Ramsch for instance). It doesn't implement idea of giving deal up early or ability to counter bidding as well.

Naming in the game is in most part derrived from English Wikipedia. However, there are some local names used. Cards suites use upper-silesian names:

Kreuz - for Clubs/Acorns/Trefl,
Grün - for Spades/Leaves/Pik,
Herz - for Hearts/Hearts/Caro,
Schell - for Diamonds/Bells/Kier

Similarly Jack is denoted with W and Queen with D. It can be changed using i18n settings.

Installation

Download source from GitHub and build using instructions below.

Usage

Building requires Leiningen installed.

To only build standalone jar run:

$ lein uberjar

It can be run with:

$ java -jar skat-0.5.0-standalone.jar

Alternatively build and run program at once:

$ lein run

On Windows (Cygwin) it might be required to run

cmd /c chcp 65001

before to make sure that UTF-8 characters will be displayed correctly.

On start you can pass option to configure apps behavior:

$ lein run -- --help
  -l, --lang LANG      :en  Interface language
  -r, --rounds ROUNDS  10   Number of rounds played
  -d, --debug               Debug mode on
  -h, --help                Display help

Currently available translations are: en (English) and pl (Polish).