An online card game for friends and AI alike.
This is an online application for the card game Cheat built with PHP and MySQL. The reason I built this was my friend lost his deck of cards with which our friend group would play cards with at lunchtime, including Cheat, so I decided to make bring it online. No more pesky cards to worry about!
There are two modes: single-player and multi-player. cheat_game.php is the main script for the single-player mode, and cheat_mp.php is the main script for the multi-player mode. As expected, there are bots that play alongside the human players. Single-player throws the user into a game with a custom number of bots, and multi-player supports both human and bots to play with each other.
Let's take a look at multiplayer. Single-player shares many of the features.
The user must first create an account with which they can log in. With the account, the user can create a unique username for themself and choose a password.
Once logged in, the user can either join a game by inputting the game ID into a search bar or create a game as a host.
Pregame lobby
Admins have the special ability to remove existing games in the pre-game queue.
Createding/hosting a game in pregame lobby
The player places cards when it is their turn. They can call "cheat" (call a player's bluff when they suspect it). The game ends once a player rids of their deck and cannot gain any more cards.
In-game
The online portion features in-game messages and the ability to play with real humans and with bots. Can't get enough friends to play? Just add a bot or two and you're good to go!
The bots in the game are fully capable of making intelligent moves. They can cheat at appropriate times and call a player's (either human or bot alike) bluff when something seems awry.
I used ngrok to make a tunnel to my localhost and used my computer as a server.
I'm going to upload a fresh SQL dump with which you can add to phpMyAdmin and play with. You can't play right now on your own computer, yet. :( It's also not online at the moment.