Carcassonne

Emulation of the map-building game Carcassonne, including 4 expansion packs

Description

http://www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=48
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_(board_game)
 
Installation:
1) Download figstate.p:
http://www.mathworks.nl/support/solutions/attachment.html?resid=1-ESX4DK&solution=1-3MY8PN
2) Unzip and add figstate.p to the carcassonne/bin folder:
3) run!
   >> carcassonne
 
This game contains the following packages:
I. Carcassonne (Basic set)
II. The River (Mini Expansion)
III. King & Scout (Mini Expansion)
IV. Inns & Cathedrals (Full Expansion)
V. Traders & Builders (Full Expansion)

There is an extensive manual to the game included in the "rules" folder by Matthew Harper. Also, I included a brief description of the rules in the carcassonne.m help.
a) help carcassonne
b) doc carcassonne
c) Main Menu -> About -> Help (F1)

• Required Products: Image Processing Toolbox
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.13 (R2011b)

[Davide Ferraro]

 

[Davide Ferraro]

 

[Zachary Danziger]

Inspiring. Thank you for your work - seeing new game submissions on the MATLAB exchange is very exciting when they are so well polished and thorough.

[Joren Heit]

@Pete & Sven: Your hints and tips have been incorporated in the game:
- flexible score system (lines 142-147)
- Undo-option instead of 1st confirmation dialog
- better scoreboard resizing
- clean exit (with confirmation dialog) out of the game

Thanks for your feedback!

[Joren Heit]

@Pete: For as far as I know (and according to my instruction manual of the original boardgame) a completed city doubles the points. Each tile of a completed city is thus rewarded with 2 points (4 if it has a shield). When the game finishes, the uncompleted cities are worth 1 point per tile.

I'm not (yet) considering adding extensions. Not only have I never played any extensions myself, but it's just a LOT of work to modify the game by adding new gameplay. Might be something for the future though.

Anyway, thanks for your reaction! Appreciate it!

[Joren Heit]

@Sven Meister: I'll see what I can do! Thanks for the tips and I'm glad you liked it :-)

[Pete]

Hi,
First thanks for this game. I like board-games so I'm pleased to see one implemented in MatLab. What about copyrights??

About the game in my instruction it says that a town (city) made from 2blocks counts as 2 points not 4=2*2 points. Unless it was changed in some extensions it would be good to play by the rules from basic game.
Do you think about adding extensions ??

[Sven Meister]

Great job! Very nice game.

Some hints, you maybe could change:
- an undo-function instead of the confirmation-click after each move would be even better for gameplay (I know, very hard to implement..)
- what about a abort function to close the game while playing without errors?
- the resize behavior of the score board isn't that nice.. mayby you could fix it, so the aspect ratio stays the same even if the main figure is scaled to a smaller part of the Desktop

[Joren Heit]

Actually, that is what I did in my first submission. This was not allowed by Mathworks since they are p-files... What I could do is add the associated m-files to this submission and link directly to both p-files. Annoying.... :-P
Anyway, thanks for your comment!

[Mingjing Zhang]

I think this game is even better than your RISK game.I can't tell if there is any bug in the code since I don't know much about the rules of this game. However, based on what I see, the graphics and the interface is just amazing.

The only annoying part is that it is contingent on the maxfig+figstate functions which can only be downloaded from somewhere else. Is it possible to corporate them into your own zip file?