war_in_hex's Introduction

War in Hex - v0.4.2

Free implementation of a Hive style game without any copyright code/images. Also comes with two servers in Erlang and Python.

├── assets					Assets
│   ├── black_boat_tile.png
│   ├── black_general_tile.png
│   ├── black_helicopter_tile.png
│   ├── black_tank_tile.png
│   ├── black_troops_tile.png
│   ├── playarea.png
│   ├── sideboard.png
│   ├── tile_drop.wav
│   ├── tiles.xcf
│   ├── white_boat_tile.png
│   ├── white_general_tile.png
│   ├── white_helicopter_tile.png
│   ├── white_tank_tile.png
│   └── white_troops_tile.png
├── game.py
├── main.py				Python script
├── main.exe				Windows binary (XP or later)
├── README.md
├── Screenshot.png
└── tile.py

Running

Unix like systems

./main.py

On windows

./main.exe

The main.exe binary works for Windows versions XP and later, for 95 and 98 you can run setup.py to generate the required extra binary.

There are command line arguments for network support.

-n --network HOST:PORT  Enable network support.
-s --server    Act as server

To run a server on port 50006

$ ./main --network 0.0.0.0:50006 --server

or even

$ ./main -n :50005 -s

To connect a client to an already running server on localhost:50006

$ ./main --network localhost:50006

Or even

$ ./main -n :50006

Online multiplayer

See the separate project here.

Dependencies

python 2.7
pygame

On Debian systems you may run

$ sudo apt-get install python-pygame

On windows install x86 python 2.7 (must be 32bit because of pygame) and pygame for python 2.7. If you wish to compile a binary for windows install py2exe.