conway-rts

conway rts cyber project (but still being designed)

Running

Install bazelisk

bazelisk # installs bazel with specific version
bazel query ...             # list targets
bazel test ... --config=cl  # run all tests (windows, cl.exe)
bazel test ... --config=gcc # run all tests (linux, gcc)
balze build ...             # build all targets (config pattern still applies)

Rough UML Diagram

UML Description

• Player represents an individual client

• Team is an actual player with resources and existing structures, but might have multiple operators aka Player

• Room represents a game room.

  • Room::initialize() is used to start a game (clear the board and setup player positions)
  • Room::processTick() handles updating the game state to advance a step
  • Room::buildStructure() is used to figure out who

• ILifeGrid is the interface for implementing a LifeGrid (grid for Conway's game of life)

  • ILifeGrid::getCell() for querying cells (determine if a structure is still active)
  • ILifeGrid::setCell() for setting individual cells (probably to be private)
  • ILifeGrid::loadTemplate() for loading a template (cell configuration)
  • ILifeGrid::compareTemplate() returns the amount of cells that differ from the template
  • ILifeGrid::step() advances the grid by one generation according to Conway's game of life rules

• Vector2 is just a 2D Vector for positions

• LifeTemplate represents a cell configuration "template"

• StructureTemplate includes a LifeTemplate and various other structure stats (cost, resourceRate - either income or upkeep, buildArea - how much it extends area you can build, visionArea - how much it shows you if we're doing fog of war)

• Structure abstract class buidls on StructureTemplate but requires a method for checking a structure's integrity (is it still active?)

• server main() manages the Room instances and also processes socket input, mapping them to a player to invoke an action

• Panel is a general JSX component (div) that we treat as widget for UI elements.

• TeamPanel is used to display team details

• StructurePanel is used to display structure status for a client

• StructureTemplatePanel is to show building options for the user

• LifeGrid is the JS implementation of GameOfLife that pretty much handles everything the server also handles. We might use a second LifeGrid as a "future preview" so user can see what happens more intuitively.