Introduction

Connect Four is a 2 player connection board game, in which the players choose a colour and then take turns dropping coloured discs into a seven-column, six-row vertically suspended grid. The pieces fall straight down, occupying the lowest available space within the column. The objective of the game is to be the first to form a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of four of one's own discs.

This projects purpose is to recreate Connect Four on a digital enviroment and build upon it.

Currently it offers:

• 2+ players per game
• customizable board sizes
• customizable colouring and symbols
• changable win conditions
• game logging
• error logging
• bot opponents
• stat tracking

Installation and Usage

# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/Squidfishrl/Connect-four

# change the working directory to connect four
$ cd Connect_four

# run launch script
$ ./run/launchLinux.sh

Requirements

- any Linux OS

Connect Four is developed under Linux. Using it under any other OS would have undefined behaviour and would likely not work.

- GCC compiler

Required for automated launch. Game might not work with different compilers / compiler settings.

- console using Bash shell

Required for automated launch and error logging.