Settlers of Planet Catan (3D Catan)

Author

The program was written by Sean D Kim for 15-112 Term Project. The course is taught by David Kosbie and David Anderson at Carnegie Mellon University.

How to Run

You need to have python installed. You can install python at https://www.python.org/downloads/ To play the game, open the “3D Catan.py” file with python. The following items need to be in the same directory. Do not rename these files/folders.

• eventBasedAnimation.py
• eventBasedAnimation.pyc
• icosahedron.obj
• images (folder of three images: alien.gif, space.gif, tile.gif)
• structClass.py
• structClass.pyc

If damaged, the files can be downloaded from following link

• eventBasedAnimation: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~112/notes/notes-oop.html
• structClass: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~112/notes/notes-oop.html
• icosahedron.obj http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/data/obj/icosahedron.obj

Objective

Whoever gets 10 points before another player wins. You can get point by building…

• House (Triangle): Wood, Brick, Sheep, Wheat (1 Point)
• City (Square): Ore, Ore, Ore, Wheat, Wheat (2 Points)
• Special Cards: Ore, Sheep, Wheat
  • Victory point (1 point)
  • Knight (0 point): removes the alien on the board.
  • Monopoly (0 point): Steal one type of resource from another player’s hand
  • Invention (0 point): Obtain two free resources of your choice.
• Largest Army (2 points): obtained if the number of times a player used knights is 3 or more and bigger than that of another play.

Info

The program is an adaptation of an existing board game, Settlers of Catan. The board was adapted to a 3D-icosahedron board instead of original 2D board. Because the new board has less vertices, the game was modified into 2-player board game. All the rule of original Catan game applies except few exceptions:

• Less vertices on board => only two players at a game
• No Roads: house/city can be build anywhere
• Alien: When 7 is rolled, randomly blocks one tile; no stealing
• Knight: knight removes any alien on the board; no stealing
• No Trading Ports: All resources are traded 4:1 ratio with bank

To access the complete guide to the original Settlers of Catan, go to <www.catan.com/service/game-rules>

Features

Start screen

• Select a color of your choice. Game starts when start button is pressed.

Playing screen

• Set-up:

  • Help button: Click to view a help text.
  • Click on a vertex of the board to build each of your two houses.
  • Press arrow key to rotate the board

• Playing:

  • Help button: Click to view a help text.

  • Main Screen

    • Press arrow key to rotate the board
    • You can visually see the status of the board.
    • Houses are represented by triangles, Cities by squares
    • White circle is drawn around the rolled number
    • You can see on which tile alien appeared

  • Navigation (top left)

    • Click Roll to roll the dice.
    • Click Trade to trade cards. The trade window will pop up for trading.
    • Click Build to build house/city or draw special cards
      • House Button: You can build a new house if you have enough resources. Click on this button and click on a vertex you want to build your new house.
      • City Button: You can upgrade a house to a city if you have enough resources. Click on this button and click on a house you want to upgrade.
    • Click End to end your turn.

  • Widget (top right)

    • displays the following information of each player
      • Points: number of points (need 10 points to win)
      • Cards: number of resource cards
      • Specials: number of special cards
      • Knights: number of knights card used. (need at least 3 for largest Army)

  • Bar (bottom)

    • This is where your cards are displayed.
    • Resources cards from left; Special cards from right

  • Sub-window (middle, under special circumstance)

    • This window appears during trade or when invention/monopoly is used.
    • During trading:
      • Select resource you wish to obtain
      • Select four cards of a same kind
      • Press Confirm to trade these cards.
      • Press Cancel to cancel trade.
    • Invention:
      • select two resources you wish to obtain
      • Press Confirm to obtain these cards. Invention cards will disappear
      • Press Cancel to cancel. Invention card will NOT disappear.
    • Monopoly:
      • select one resources you wish to obtain
      • Press Confirm to obtain all cards of selected type from computer. Monopoly cards will disappear.
      • Press Cancel to cancel. Monopoly card will NOT disappear.

  • cheatKeyDemo (not part of a game)

    • You can press these keys to obtain the following…
      • b => brick
      • i => invention
      • k => knight
      • l => any special card
      • m => monopoly
      • o => ore
      • s => sheep
      • t => wheat
      • v => victory point
      • w => wood

• Game-over:

  • You can click “r” to play the game again.