maze_terminal_game

Player is locked in a maze and their task is to collect treasures in the form of coins (c, t, T). If player collects enough treasures takes them to the BANK ( A ) and leaves them there. A player may carry any number of coins at a time (carried), but may lose . The beast chases the player when it comes within range.

Blocks on the map

* '*' is beast
* '1', '2' are players
* '▒' block is the wall. Wall block players and beast
* \'#' block stop player move
* 'A' block is bank
* (c, t, T) are treasures

Navigation

* navigate using arrows

Server preview:

Client preview (client see only part of the map):

Main Goal

the game was made to practice: 
 * synchronization of data access
 * communication between processes
 * synchronization and work with many threads

Technology

* ncurses       ->  GUI
* shared memory ->  Data transfer beetwen proccesses
* semaphores    ->  Sync memory access
* mutex         -> to sync beast thread

RUN

Use make command to build and run. 1st game instanction will be mark as server, 2nd as client. 

REQUIREMENTS:

* min terminal size: 32 row, 110 col
* xterm
* ncurses

Before run install: xterm # to resize terminal size ncurses # to display windows in terminal

Install before compilation (on ubuntu):

    sudo apt install xterm
    sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

To clear terminal mesh after game crash use:

stty sane
if {ENTER} dosnt work use: stty sane ^J {CTRL + J}

Good for debug:

watch -n 1 ls /dev/shm
rm /dev/shm/C_SAVE_SHM /dev/shm/sem.C_SAVE_SEM /dev/shm/S_SAVE_SHM /dev/shm/sem.S_SAVE_SEM

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