This is a game shadowing the Pandemic board game in terms of mechanics.

Pandemic's rules are found here: http://www.zmangames.com/uploads/4/7/1/7/47170931/pandemic.pdf

This repository contains a .jpg file which shows the Pandemic board. It is useful to refer to it when programming this game.

Developers: jsoikkeli and anthonychuah - it is by random chance that the repo is hosted on anthonychuah's GitHub.

Design of the objects in this program:

World

• World represents a single on-going game, similar to the board in Pandemic, and contains:
  • A collection of Hero objects, which will be generated from a text data file
  • A collection of City objects, which will be generated from a text data file
  • 2 collections of PCard objects, one is the player card pile and one is the discard pile
  • 2 collections of ICard objects, one is the infection card pile and one is the discard pile
  • A counter showing how many more research centres (RCs) can be built
  • The statuses of the four diseases in the world
  • The number of disease blocks not yet placed upon cities
  • Number of outbreaks that have happened so far
  • The infection rate at the moment
• Note: all collections are std::vector
• The World can take as a parameter the number of epidemics in the PCard deck: this sets the difficulty
• World also has many functions:
  • Shuffling decks of cards on the board
  • Loading game data, initializing the game board
  • Playing event cards (which can be played from any player's hand regardless of turn)
  • Trigger epidemics
  • Visual rendering of the World

City

• City represents a node on the board (see PandemicMap.jpg), and contains:
  • A list of neighbouring cities by their unique ID
  • Array representing how many disease cubes are on the city at the moment
  • Boolean showing if RC has been built here
  • Integer representing which disease (colour) the city produces
• City has various functions to enable gameplay that are not enumerated here
• Remember that World::cities is a list of City objects

Hero

• Hero represents the player character moving around saving the world, and Hero has functions that correspond to what players can do in Pandemic:
  • Move to adjacent cities
  • Disinfect current city
  • Fly to cities
  • Build RCs
• Hero also contains a list of Cards in their hand, representing the player cards in a player's hand
• Remember that World::heroes is a list of Hero objects

Player Card

• PCard represents player cards, and are found in the two stack of PCards data structures in World
• PCard can also be taken into a player's hands
• PCard can also be an Epidemic Card, which triggers the World::epidemic function and then disappears from the game

Infection Card

• ICard represents infection cards, and are found in the two stack of ICards data structures in World

Recent Issues and Bugfixes:

1. Fixed: infinite chain reaction outbreaks by setting an immunity flag the moment you get an outbreak. Immunity flags are reset right after every infection card draw and every epidemic call.

2. Fixed: removal of multiple cards requires you to repeatedly iterate and break, because erasure of a vector element can shift its memory location.

3. Fixed: segmentation fault due to erasure from player's hand (discard cards above 7) and then continuing to use the iterator. Now I break the loop instead.