IPC-game

A simple IPC pacman-like game mady by using C programming langauge.

Client view:

Server view:

Deployment Commands for linux:

running a server: "gcc main.c -o server -lpthread -lrt -lcurses -lm && ./server"

running a client(up to 4): "gcc client.c -o client -lpthread -lrt -lcurses -lm && ./client"

Features:

• turn-based<
• 4 playable concurrent players
• spawning up to 3 enemies
• spawning up to 20 collectable treasures
• droping loot after death
• bushes that slow you down for 1 turn
• a game log and monitoring interface for the server

List of IPC tools that I used:

• threads
• mutexes
• unamed and named semaphores
• shared memory