Hnefatafl

Final Project for CS3110: Coding Hnefatafl

Setup

Designed to be run on the CS3110 Virtual Machine: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2015fa/vm.html

Run setup.sh in the main folder to install the needed packages.

Compile and Run with the following commands:

cs3110 compile main.ml
cs3110 run main.ml

Adding GUIs

There are a couple of options of interfaces in this project. You can add your own by creating a .ml file in the guis/ subdirectory that exhibits a GUI module with the GUI module type found in GUI.mli. To name your GUI, put a comment at the top that appears exactly as follows:

(*
   NAME: <the gui's name>
*)

Adding Game Modes

Many variants of Hnefatafl exist. A few of them can be found in this project. To add your own, add a .ml file in the game_modes/ subdirectory that exhibits a Mode module with the Mode module type found in game_mode.mli. names folow the same naming convention

Screenshots

The starting layout for the default game mode in the 3D graphics GUI

Hovering the cursor over a piece:

Piece selected:

Hovering over a valid move:

Hovering over an invalid move:

Move made! Background changes to white to indicat the current turn.