cosmofruit/hive

Hive Board Game with Game Engine, AI, UI, and Server.

https://playhive.herokuapp.com/

About Hive

Hive is a tabletop game designed by John Yianni and published in 2001 by Gen42 Games. It's a two player turn based game where the goal is to completely surround the opposing player's queen bee. Each game piece has different ways of moving around the hexagonal grid -- More information about these movements and game rules can be found here https://www.gen42.com/download/rules/hive/Hive_English_Rules.pdf.

Development

Game Engine - https://github.com/shaw3257/hive/blob/master/lib/board.js

The game engine is written in javascript with no 3rd party dependencies. It’s job is to keep game state and to emit events when moves are validated or processed.

AI - https://github.com/shaw3257/hive/blob/master/lib/ai.js

The AI is also written in javascript with no 3rd party dependencies and is an implementation of the minimax algorithm with alpha beta pruning. It runs on the client-side in a separate thread via the Web Worker API.

UI - https://github.com/shaw3257/hive/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/game/board/board-ui.js

The UI uses the Canvas API along with Kinetic.js to render the pieces. The hexagonal grid was constructed with good ol’e fashion trigonometry.

Server - https://github.com/shaw3257/hive/blob/master/app/server.js

The hive server runs on Node.js through Socket.io on the Express framework. The decision to use Node.js was to potentially use the game engine on the server-side.

Develop Locally

Install Deps

npm install

Run Tests

npm test

Compile and Watch Assets

grunt && grunt watch

Run Server

node app/server.js

View in Browser

open http://localhost:3001