Pachisi Card Game

An implementation of a Cross-and-Circle game using cards for movement, which is similar to other games like Sorry, Trouble, Mensch ärgere Dich nicht, Parcheesi, but played with a hand of cards instead of dice. The cards and graphics of this implementation are based on the retail version of the popular Swiss card game Dog, as published by Schmidt Spiele. An English version of the rules of the game can be found here. More information on the game, including its history and other variants, can be found here.

This project offers solo play vs bots and online play with other humans and/or bots.

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Dependencies

• Node / NPM
• Firebase (optional)

Basic Usage

• Run npm install
• Copy and rename /src/environments/environment.prod.copy.ts to remove .copy.
• Copy and rename again to remove .prod (or run ng build --prod)
• Optionally, to play/host games online, create a new Firebase project, enable Real Time Database, and set the url in the environment to your project
• Start the app with ng serve
• Navigate to http://localhost:4200.

Further Notes

• The online version of this game currently uses Firebase's Real-time Database. Permissions are not in place -- only input validation is performed. This means anyone can change anyone's game, or see other players cards while games are in progress. Eventually, this could/should be moved to either Firebase Custom Functions or a dedicated Node.js server.
• The game can be easily deployed to Firebase static hosting
• The core game logic is under test; component tests are stubbed out. Tests can be run with ng test.

Todo List

Bold items are intended for release 0.1.

Cards

• Burning Seven
• Swap
• Joker -- selection of Burning Seven / Swap

Game Logic

• No passing other home players
• Send to Home (possibly even own piece)
• In-goal movement (no -4?)
• No jumping over pieces in home
• Pre-round card swap
• Victory condition detection
• Rotate starting player clockwise each round

Game Variants

• If cannot make move, sit out
• Play with teams -- play as partner after one finishes
• 6 player board
• 2, 3, 5 player solo - show hand on discard

Bot AI

• Fix Burning implementation
• Better selection of Card
• Better selection of Piece
• Card Swap

Remote Logic

• Select player when joining
• Updating of online status in game and in lobbies
• Auto-bot
• Become Host

Interface

• Edit player name
• Game options on creation (deck, players, rules)
• Make player bot / take turn for player
• Home screen game deletion
• Expandable Activity Log (and persistence)

Graphics

• Card Button re-work
• Burning Seven special treatment
• Pre-animate own card plays/discards to eliminate lag
• Animate away cards from hand
• Animate dealing
• Animate piece movement animations (and game-sync)
• Animate swap
• 3D view
• More obvious piece/space selection
• Home screen re-style

Onboarding

• Tutorial

Development

• More Test Cases
• Clean up component test warnings