Octopus Carnival

Octpus Carnival is an environment for playing the Machiavelli card game inside the terminal. It features a solver in order to play against the computer.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

The Machiavelli solver is written in Ocaml:

opam install corebuild dune yojson core

The TUI is written in python:

pip3 install --user colorama picotui

The game

In order to play the game first build the solver:

cd octopus_carnival
make

Then run the executable

./ono_sendai/start

Example

Click to play the video.

Contributing

The folder structure follows a non standard layout for personal reasons.

.
├── hosaka
│   ├── cards.ml
│   ├── dune
│   ├── dune-project
│   ├── hashset.ml
│   ├── main.ml
│   ├── printer.ml
│   ├── table.ml
│   ├── tcards.ml
│   └── tests.ml
├── makefile
├── metro_holografix
│   ├── cardtypes.py
│   └── scrapes
│       ├── alg.py
│       ├── cardtypes.py
│       ├── test.py
│       └── vecchio.py
├── ono_sendai
│   ├── animation/
│   ├── start
│   ├── state.py
│   ├── symbols.py
│   └── widgets.py

hosaka contains the code related to the solver
metro_holografix contains the python definitions for the cards and some prototypes
ono_sendai contains all the python code related to the game TUI

Authors

Francesco Mecca - blog

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my friend Daniele that helped me to write the algorithm for the solver.

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