Overview

JTGE stands for Java Turn-based Games Engine : a framework written in java designed for turn-based games, which purpose is to provide tools to minimize the development and to facilitate the integration processes.



Typical games which can benefit from using the engine are :

• Play By E-Mail games
• Solo or networked strategy games
• Hot-Seat games
• Web games

Architecture

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Features

The game engine provides the following components :

• Data help to model the game state
• Commands encapsulate game state interactions : modifications and updates
• Handlers provide the skeleton of applications based on commands
• Synchronization enables the different game mecanics to be composed
• Computation handles commands chronology and access to typical game components such as turn clock and players list
• Visibility are handlers to cope with commands interest management
• Serialization implements specific handlers for network, database and file input/output
• Security ensures no cheating can happen
• Utilities gather different usefull components : random number generator, tile-based map support, etc..

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