Project: Phase3

This last phase of the project will be for you to polish some of the essential features from phase 2 and to add certain advanced features.

I will write up group-specific instructions on improvements---particularly to the user interface---that I would like to see in the final product. I will put these in a file which I will commit under SVN. I hope to have these available by Wednesday at the latest.

For phase 3, your group should choose two out of the following three features:

• Computer opponent. Allow the user to indicate that certain robots are to be controlled by the computer. Devise a strategy for selecting cards from a hand which will lead to progress towards touching the flags. Your strategy should be documented in a separate file or document; explain your algorithm for selecting cards, making decisions, etc. Needless to say, the computer player must be under the same restrictions as the human players---the cards must be dealt randomly to the computer player. Optionally, you can also program a computer player who is not trying to win but only to interfere with and attack the other players.
• Board editor. Create a stand-alone application which can be used to create new board layouts. The hardest part of this will be designing a user interface that looks nice and is intuitive to use. The boards created by the editor should be selectable as boards to use in the game.
• Networking. Create client and server versions of RoboRally so that players can be at different workstations. Neile has set aside TCP port 27335 for this purpose.

Please think these over and let me know by Monday, April 13, which of these your group is working on. Please also let me know if there are any additional features (such as sound effects) or variations on these that your group would like to do.

DUE: (tentatively) Wednesday, April 29.