Economy Minigame

Playtest and refine a set of ideas for how the economy should work in seacow. The basic idea revolves around players investing in various industries. The return on investment the players receive from each industry depends on what is happening in the game, and in particular how other players are investing. The goal is to create an economic system in which the players are competing with each other as directly as possible.

Installation

The basic step to install the minigame are to clone the repository, create a python3 virtual environment, and to build the game using pip in editable mode:

$ git clone https://github.com/kxgames/seacow_economy_minigame
$ cd seacow_economy_minigame
$ virtualenv -p python3 --system-site-packages env
$ pip install -e .

The game must be installed in a virtual environment to avoid name conflicts with other kxg minigames. The reason is that the code is installed into a package called src to work around a limitation in pip. Because other minigames use the same work-around, you cannot have two minigames installed in the same environment.

Usage

Installation creates an executable called economy_minigame in the virtual environment. Activate the environment if it isn't configured to activate itself automatically, then run the executable:

$ economy_minigame --help
Run a game being developed with the kxg game engine.

Usage:
    economy_minigame sandbox [<num_ais>] [-v...]
    economy_minigame client [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [-v...]
    economy_minigame server <num_guis> [<num_ais>] [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [-v...]
    economy_minigame debug <num_guis> [<num_ais>] [--host HOST] [--port PORT] [-v...]
    economy_minigame --help

Commands:
    sandbox
        Play a single-player game with the specified number of AIs.  None of
        the multiplayer machinery will be used.

    client
        Launch a client that will try to connect to a server on the given host
        and port.  Once it connects and the game starts, the client will allow
        you to play the game against any other connected clients.

    server
        Launch a server that will manage a game between the given number of
        human and AI players.  The human players must connect using this
        command's client mode.

    debug
        Debug a multiplayer game locally.  This command launches a server and
        the given number of clients all in different processes, and configures
        the logging system such that the output from each process can be easily
        distinguished.

Arguments:
    <num_guis>
        The number of human players that will be playing the game.  Only needed
        by commands that will launch a multiplayer server.

    <num_ais>
        The number of AI players that will be playing the game.  Only needed by
        commands that will launch a single-player game or a multiplayer server.

Options:
    -x --host HOST          [default: localhost]
        The address of the machine running the server.  Must be accessible from
        the machines running the clients.

    -p --port PORT          [default: 53351]
        The port that the server should listen on.  Don't specify a value less
        than 1024 unless the server is running with root permissions.

    -v --verbose
        Have the game engine log more information about what it's doing.  You
        can specify this option several times to get more and more information.

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