Poker

About

Poker is a distributed CLI poker game to play with your friends! Start up the application, join your friends and start playing. No server is necessary, it runs in an all masterless design.

Installation

Install erlang and elixir, for Mac users:

brew install elixir

(Should just need the above, but if you have trouble, try also installing the following)

brew install erlang
brew install rebar

Clone the repository

git clone git@github.com:mgwidmann/poker.git && cd poker

Run the tests to be sure you are all set up correctly

mix test

Start up the application

mix play

Playing

Getting Ready

When the application loads it will ask you for your name

Please enter your name: Joe
All commands start with a "/". To get the list of commands, type "/?" or "/help"
joe@joes-imac>

Simply type in a unique identifier for your group

Join other players

Do the same as above in another terminal or another computer on the same network.

Type /join <computer_name> <computer_name2> ... to join your friends

/join joe@joes-imac

Listing players

To see who is connected, just type /list

/list
joe@joes-imac

Chatting

You can talk to any other player by simply typing anything that doesn't start with a forward slash (/).

joe@joes-imac> Hey man whats up?
joe@joes-imac>
...
fred@joes-imac> joe: Hey man whats up?
fred@joes-imac>

The purpose of the chat capability is to allow players to talk trash to each other.

Starting a game