Incognito chess is a game of chess where you can only see your own pieces and the squares you're attacking! You can play this with your friends over LAN.
We made this initially after we took GaTech CS 2200 and wanted to see if we could make a game of chess that could work over a network.
After compiling everything, run the app from the command line with java UiMain [ip] where [ip] should be replaced by the ip address of the other person you are playing with. If you don't pass in an ip address, you play a local version of the game.
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Trying the model the board with characters for the pieces in an effort to try to save memory was a good lesson of not trying to optimize early. Doing this in an object oriented manner would have been a lot cleaner because we also ended up using an enum to represent the pieces. Very messy.
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With more time, I would have loved to add support for a game room that people could join and I was thinking about doing that with AWS, but since this is more of a project to learn from, I'm going to be trying to make a RESTful API and pub/sub messages in the next project I try.
Things definitely aren't complete, but I think we did a good job of prioritizing what we needed to do to get a proof of concept going. However, we definitely made some mistakes that we learned from, and I think next time we'll end up focusing more on the architecture of an app first.