Tank Commander Panic

Tank Commander Panic is a networked, tile-based RTT (Real Time Tactics) game.

Players have command of up to four tanks but can drive only one at a time, carefully switching between them to take advantage of each tank's characteristics on the ever-changing battlefield.

Dependencies

Server

• Boost (1.56 or greater) is required to compile and run these programs. Both the development headers and binaries may be installed using the preferred package manager of your Linux distribution.
• gcc (v4.9 or greater) is required to support C++ 14.

Client

• Python 3.* is required for running the python client.
  • numpy is required from pip
  • pySFML specifically from https://github.com/joelfad/python-sfml/tree/bugfix

Building

The server and client can be compiled with a provided script:

./build.sh

Running

To run the Server:

./Server <map>

To run the Client:

./Client <host ip>

Troubleshooting

If you have any difficulties compiling or running these programs, please let us (Group 36) know so that we can demonstrate our assignment.

Development

Gitflow

The master branch is for tagged releases. The devel branch is live development of components outside of the server and client themselves. The server and client branches are downstream of devel. They are live development branches for their respective components.

Documentation

Docs regarding the design of various parts of the system are available under doc/.

Sections:

• Panic Game Protocol specification
• .map file format specification