xavixava / projeto_psis

Project for Systems Programming subject

Chase-Them Game

It is a project assigned by the Systems Programming subject. It implements a simple game where balls move in a field, trying to chase other balls and pick prizes.

Project by:

Xavier Antunes, 96343

Tiago Espadinha, 96329

Required knowledge

Since you might have more than 1 player, it creates the need to use threads. Inet sockets are used to comunicate between client and server.

Get Started

#generate both client and server binaries
make

#run client and server in different windows
#the programs necessary for client and server are in different directories
./client/chase-client <server_ip> <server_port>
./server/server <server_port>

projeto_psis's Issues

create message struct/protocol

Update comunication protocol

At the application level

Update computation function, so it can change players health

set up fifo for comunication between threads

inicializar posição dos jogadores

Atencão que teem que começar numa posição random(provavelmente será melhor que esta posição não seja repetível)

prize and bot generators inside server.c

prize generating code

create bot client

field status type messages

computes health

check if a client rams in another and other health changes

Create unix sockets and send message

Set up mutexes

Probably only needed for inserting and taking things from queue

Set up thread for updating clients

Implement waits w/ mutexes

Create unix datagram sockets skeleton code and unit test

Implement max number of players

O prof mencionou na aula que podes ter que enquanto houver espaço, podem entrar mais jogadores

Não prioritário

Make clients multi-threadedd

So the screens can be updated at the same time we're waiting for a char

Message poorly formatted after client disconnects

Debugging needed

lncurses

save clients info

substitute perror for robustness

Substitute unix datagram sockets by internet stream sockets(tcp)

Also set up threads w/ it, since there will be a single socket for each connection