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Stratego Game in JavaScript

JavaScript Game - Stratego

This was our first JavaScript project at Codecool, it is a basic implementation of the core rules and game play of Stratego. It was a one sprint long project what we achieved after one week of studying JavaScript.

The project

Stratego Game

• two-player strategic board game
• each player has an army, and the goal is to find the flag of the other army
• each player can move one soldier OR can start a battle per round
• the game has two phase:
  • set up the army based on the player’s strategy
  • battle phase, when the soldiers starting to explore the enemy’s territory and searching for the flag
• the game ends, when one of the players found the flag or can’t move any more

Technologies

Frontend: JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Backend: Python with a simple Flask server

How to run

1. install Python3 on your computer eg. on Ubuntu (Shell):

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install python3.6

2. create a virtual environment for the project and activate it

   sudo apt-get python3-venv
   python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment
   source /path/to/new/virtual/environment/bin/activate

3. install dependencies of the project:

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. run server.py

   python3 server.py

Click on the given localhost link to play game in a browser.