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TAxE Game

This is the website for the TAxE Game developed by the EEP team for the Software Engineering Project module at the Department of Computer Science, University of York.

It is a train simulator game that can be played by two players over the Internet.

Click here to see our Game Presentation.

GIVE A TRY at our online two players game. You can try it with a friend over the Internet, or locally by launching two instances of the Game.

Features of the Game

Network architecture — The game clients exchange game data using a Server. This allows users to play over the Internet. Remember: You write code the same way you would do on your local game, and you get out of it a network game - for free;
Easy to extend — The Server is very simple and independent from the Game models - its only role is to exchange objects between the clients, plus the simple lobby sistem. All of the Game logic is implemented in the Game Clients in Java, so there's no need to touch the server code if you extend the Game;
MVC Pattern — The Model-View-Controller architectural pattern separates the User Interface (the View), the Models and the Controller (catching events and implementing actions). This allows team members to easily work on different aspect of the same code;
Well documented — The Game code is written in such a way to be read and understood very easily, as well as extensively commented. See for yourself;
API Reference — The use of Javadoc-style comments allows the generation of a very clear Reference for all of the Classes and Methods. Give a look at our beautiful API reference;
Like LibGDX? — If you like LibGDX, remember we use the MVC Pattern: the interface is separate from the game logic, adapting it to LibGDX it is quick and trivial.

Run the game

You can run the Game on virtually any PC with the Java Runtime Environment version 7 or higher. You can download the JRE for free at java.com. The game has been tested to work on the Windows and Linux PCs at the Department of Computer Science, University of York.

Download taxe-game.jar and open it;
If a security prompt is shown, click "Allow" - we're trustworthy;
Click OK to choose default game server and run the game;
Play!

Host your own server

By default, the Game tries to connect to an instance of the Game server that can be used for testing.

To host your own server, you'll need a PC running either Linux or Mac OS with NodeJS installed. You can download NodeJS from here.

To run the server, type in a terminal:

 git clone https://github.com/SEPR-EEP/taxe-server
 cd taxe-server
 node server.js

This will start a game server listening on port 8042. Make sure this port is reachable from the Internet. You can then type http://<your-ip>:8042 to connect to your server when starting the Game.

Note: In some Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and its derivatives, you may need to type nodejs instead of node.

Contact us

If you have any query about the game, please drop us a line at:

sepr-eep@googlegroups.com

We'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Authors

Cosgrove, Richard (rc1035@york.ac.uk);
Dong, Yindi (yd695@york.ac.uk);
Fresta, Alfio Emanuele (aef517@york.ac.uk);
Grierson, Andy (ag1106@york.ac.uk);
Kokov, Stefan (sk1056@york.ac.uk);
Lippit, Peter (pjl513@york.ac.uk).

EEP Team Website