Zombie Game Judge

Zombie Game is a turn-based party game, large group of people to play together.

Rule

Players are divided into 2 groups, most of them are humans, small portion of them are zombies.

When game begins:

• Judge tells each player his/her identity, a human or a zombie.
• Judge announce, the number of zombies and humans.

Each turn, players interact with others:

• One player can interact with another player once in a turn
• One player can interact with several players in a turn

If

• Human player interacts with human player, both of them get 1 score!
• Human player interacts with zombie, human player got temporaryly infected, zombie player get 1 score!
• Temporary infected player turns into a permanent infected player after 3 turns! And whose scores are cleared!
• Temporary infected player can cure himself/herself by appling anitdote. Every player, including the zombies has 1 antidote when game started. Temporary infected becomes human again after used the antidote, the antidote can be used only once!
• Antidote has no effect if applied to human player, permanent infected player, or zombie, but the antidote is still consumed.
• Human player interacts with infected player, either temporary or permanent one, human player get infected too.
• Permanent Infected player get 1 sccore when he/she successfully infected a human player.
• Temporary Infected player doesn't score, even he/she infected a human player.
• Players are not informed whether he/she is infected or not.
• (Optional) One player can give his/her antidote to another player.

When the turn ends, Judge will announce:

• The number of human and zombies, infected players (both temporary and permanent) will be counts as zombie.
• The score (Not name) of the human and zombie player who got the highest scores.

The game ends, when:

• All players are turned into Zombies by the end of the turn, zombie wins. The zombie players and permanent infected players are ranked by their scores!
• Only 1 human player survives by ** the end of the turn**, human wins. The survivor wins.
• Game reaches the maximum turns, human wins. The human players are ranked by their scores.

A tricky, but important case:

1. A is a human player.
2. In one turn, A is touch by a Zombie player, so A is temporarly infected.
3. After that, in the same turn, A touches another human player B, so B is temporarly infected.
4. Then, still in the same turn, A consumes an antidote, so A is cured, and changed to human again.
5. At the same time, B is still temporarly infected.
6. 3 turns later, B is permanent infected and lost all scores.

How to use the code

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/timnew/zombie_game.git
$ cd zombie_game
$ bundle install

Configure the game

Game has a configure file(config.yml by default), which includes the player names, and the number of zombie players, and maximum turns for a game. Edit the file according to your case. Then execute following command:

$ rake new_game

It generates game.txt, which is the script describes what happens in the game.

Record the game

Record what happened in the game into game.txt

• INTERACT a b means player A interacts B
• ANTIDOTE a means player A applied antidote to himself/herself
• NEXT_TURN means the end of the turn.

Each command has short acronym, some of them has alais:

• Interacts: INTERACT, TOUCH, i, t
• Antidote: ANTIDOTE, a
• Next Turn: NEXT_TURN, NEXT_ROUND, nt, nr

Run the game

After update the game.txt, run the rake task, which will run the script, and generates result

$ rake run

Or

$ rake

Watch script change

If you want the simualtion run automatically after script changed, use following script

$ guard