This is a project of Connect Four game. It has a well tested model and controller, as well as a user-friendly minimal GUI. When users are playing, the player with red pieces will go first.
- The current user need to click the row they want to drop the next piece
- The player with red pieces will always move first
- the players's turns are automatically taken care of, it will show the player's turn at the top of the GUI
- When the game is over, or when the player decide to start fresh, they can click the Restart button and start from an empty board.
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Open your terminal, navigate to the folder that contains the JAR file. For example,
cd res -
Use command
java -jar ConnectFourGUI.jarto run the JAR file.
- Aftern running the JAR file, the GUI will be displayed.
- We will see the instruction "Click a row when it is your turn", and "Player RED's turn" on top of the GUI.
- Below is a grid of 6 * 7. When the user click any column of the grid, a round circle (the piece) with color red or yellow will be displayed.
- The color of the circle will match with the current player (RED or YELLOW).
- The users will keep playing until the game ends.
- There are three possible outcome when the game ends: RED wins, Yellow wins, and a draw. Those outcomes will be displayed on top of the GUI.
- I am using the classic 6 * 7 board. If users need a customized board, they can simply change the parameters in my main class.
- When testing my controller of the connect four game, I have to use a mock model and a mock view. However, it is hard to test my GUI entensively.
- I ran my JAR files several times and tried different playing strategies. Also, I invite my classmates to test this file.
- In the future, I will learn how to automatically test a GUI, hence make my program more reliable.
Documentation of Package javax.swing
https://docs.oracle.com/javase%2F7%2Fdocs%2Fapi%2F%2F/javax/swing/package-summary.html