Due: 8:00 p.m., Monday, 8 November 2004
Please do your work with your group.
Everyone
Think about the steps that will have to happen when the user "logs in"
and what objects need to know about other objects. (Think about the
series of method calls, similar to those we went over in class.)
List the basic verbs you would like our system to support.
List synonyms for those verbs.
Rewrite any appropriate methods to use rebelsky.mug.Action rather than a series of strings.
Network Group
During our discussion, we identified a number of issues that you will need
to handle:
- Rather than sending strings, you should probably send objects.
- Your server needs to handle more than one client. Hence, rather than doing a
read on each client, you will need to check if the clients are ready to send information. In addition, you should not stop running, even if there are no current clients.
- After the client sends a request, there are three possible responses from the server:
- It can return an exception.
- It can return a result (usually a string).
- It can "request that the UI display something".
Solve at least two of these problems and be prepared to demonstrate and
discuss your solution.
World Model Group
Do at least two of the following three tasks:
a. Finish the implementation of Place.
b. Finish the implementation of Thing.
c. "Implement" the combat system.
UI Group
a. Finish, as best you can, the user interface for players. (As best I
can tell, you should read input, convert it to an action, send that action
to the world, wait for a response and print it out. You should also provide
a printMessage method.) You need not implement that user validation (yet).
b. Plan the user interface for world builders. What methods will you need
World to provide to allow you to build or extend the world?
Person/AI Group
a. List five different "kinds" of AI people you might create. For example, an AnnoyingObserver might make a comment on every action that it sees (except, we hope, its own). For example: "I wonder why Sam picked up the tape." "I don't care that Sam shouted 'Fire'." A Maniac might attack anyone nearby. A PackRat might pick up everything in sight, wander off, and then drop everything.
b. Implement at least one of these kinds of people. (Your implementation need not be complete, but it should be prepared to do stuff whenever an action happens.)
c. The AI characters will probably need to act, even when there are no people in the room or nothing is happening. What method should the World send those characters and how often?
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