Overview

This project is a game of goose I did during my master's degree after a few hours of Java SE course. It was our final exam in Java and we had to conceive and code the game. The rule was to make the game from scratch to see if we understood how to use classes and how to code simple logic in Java.

A console interface that displays the game results would have been enough for our professor but I wanted to push the subject further to see what I could actually do with Swing and AWT. Furthermore, I wanted to prepare myself for my future internship during which I knew I would have to use Java to create an application with an interface.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Table of Contents
• I - Game rules
• II - Application conception
• III - Results

I - Game rules

The game of goose is a board game that is played with dice. All the players start at the first space and the goal is to reach the last space before the others. The first player reaching the last space wins.

Players take turns to roll the dice and advance as many spaces as the result of the dice.

In my game, I've implemented special spaces that give bonuses or penalties :

• the player passes his/her turn (apply on the next turn)
• the player advances of 1 or 2 spaces
• the player moves back of 1 or 2 spaces
• the player teleports to a specific space (it can be closer to the end or further)

II - Application conception

First step was to get the game's board. I'd created the board myself to be able to customize it exactly as I wanted.

Then I made the UML diagram (Unified Modeling Language) to prepare the main classes that I would have to use and their attributes and methods.

III - Results

When you launch the game, you arrive on the configuration screen where you can select the number of players [2-4] and their names :

Once the configuration is done, you can launch the game and the board appears :

Most of this screen is dedicated to the game's board with the spaces and the player pieces.

At the bottom of the board, you have 3 smaller parts :

• left => displays the turn number, the scores and a rocket indicates who is playing next
• middle => displays the message of the last action(s) (dice results, movements and passed turns)
• right => the buttons to play and quit the game