cs3110-project

Team 99: The Sorcerer Camels Hannah Jacob - htj7 Sanaa Bhorkar - sb2759 Kashish Balan - kdb89 Prisha Rai - pr482

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Imposter

A word-guessing social deduction game. Two versions: solo and multiplayer.

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Solo Mode

You play as the imposter. The game picks a secret word from a random category and gives you one hint at a time. Your job is to figure out the word.

dune exec bin/main.exe

How to play:

1. A category is shown (e.g. Animals).
2. You get one hint word at a time from the same category.
3. Type your guess after each hint.
4. Type give up to reveal the word and quit the round.
5. At the end, type y to play again or n to quit.

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Multiplayer Mode

You need at least 3 players. One person runs the server, everyone connects as a client.

Start the server

dune exec bin/server_main.exe -- 4000

Everyone connects

dune exec bin/client_main.exe -- HOST PORT YOUR_NAME

Example:

dune exec bin/client_main.exe -- localhost 4000 prisha

Start the game

The first person to connect is the host (shown as 👑 in the lobby). Once everyone has joined, the host types:

start

How a round works

One random player is secretly chosen as the imposter. Everyone else is crew and knows the secret word.

• Clue phase: Players take turns giving one word related to the secret word. The imposter has to fake a believable clue.
• Vote phase: Everyone votes on who they think the imposter is. Type the player's name (case doesn't matter).
• Guess phase: If the imposter gets voted out, they get one last chance — guess the secret word to still win.

Winning

• Crew wins if the imposter is voted out and fails to guess the word.
• Imposter wins if they survive the vote, or get caught but correctly guess the word.
• Draw if the vote ties.

After each round, everyone votes y or n to play again.