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Server available only for Mtg (onccassionally) and Metw right now.

Introduction

• Deck editor including import and export from/to a text file.
• Fast game play: bureaucracy not implemented (on purpose).
• 1-4 players.
• You can watch games while not playing yourself.
• Highly customizeable: macros and scripting language included.
• Servers have a knowledge of several game formats (for example Type 1, Type 1.5, etc. in Mtg). Own game formats can be defined.
• Sell cards by determining a price and the number of cards for sale. Clients can see always the best offer.
• Easy trading: create your want list and the server helps you to find a trade.
• Sealed deck games.
• Export and import to/from existing deck formats.

History

• Jan 25th 2001: The project was founded.
• Jan 9th 2002: First complete game of Mtg was played.
• Sep 18th 2002: First complete game of Pokemon was played.
• Dec 4th 2002: First complete game of Metw was played.
• Jan 25th 2003: First public announcement on happypenguin.org.
• Jan 29th 2003: Project moved to gccg.sourceforge.net.
• Sep 26th 2003: First complete game of Lotr was played.
• Oct 26th 2004: Gccg II project started.

Screenshots

NOTE: Card images are not included with the game.

Installing

Linux

• Install required libraries SDL, SDL_net, SDL_image, SDL_ttf using your distribution's package management.
• Create a game directory
  mkdir gccg
  cd gccg
  
• Download gccg-core-0.7.23.tgz to the game directory and unpack
  tar xzvf gccg-core-0.7.23.tgz
• You can now use a package manager gccg_package to install the rest of the game. You need to install at least packages client, fonts and linux-i386
  ./gccg_package install client fonts linux-i386
• You can list available modules
  ./gccg_package status
• Install game modules you wish to play
  ./gccg_package install game
  where game is one of the mtg, pokemon or metw.
• Each game module have startup script with the same name as the module capitalized. You can launch the game using, i.e.
  ./Mtg
• To update all installed packages, say
  ./gccg_package update

Notes:

• New Linux binaries are compiled against glibc 2.3. In practice this means that older distribtions cannot use them any more. Gccg binary version is tested on Debian sarge, Fedora Core 1, Mandrake 9.2 and found functional. You can check if your distribution has glibc 2.3 from distrowatch.com. For older distributions you must compile from source.

Mac OS X

• Run the Terminal program (which is located in /Application/Utilities/).
• Create a folder to store Gccg in with
  mkdir gccg
• Navigate to that folder with
  cd gccg
• Download the gccg-core-0.7.23.tgz module with
  curl -O http://gccg.sourceforge.net/modules/gccg-core-0.7.23.tgz
• Decompress the file you just downloaded with
  tar xzvf gccg-core-0.7.23.tgz
• Install the packages needed for the client:
  ./gccg_package install client fonts macosx
• Install game modules you wish to use:
  ./gccg_package install game
  where game is mtg, pokemon, or metw
• Run game using
  ./Game
  where Game is Mtg, Pokemon, or Metw.
• To update all installed packages, say
  ./gccg_package update

Notes:

• You can use alt+left click instead of middle click and ctrl+alt+left click instead of ctrl+middle click.
• If you wish, you can also type /bind /eval MouseMiddleClick() and then press a key. From now on, pressing the key is the same as middle clicking.
• Some of the special symbols cannot be produced right now in OS X. You can use /bindk command (see /help bindk) to bind those symbols to the keys. See manual "Text formatting" section for more information about special symbols.
  Example: type /bindk {R} and press enter. Then press some key combination. Now you can produce red mana symbol by pressing the key combination.
• For 1024x768 resolution (or less): you don't have input line visible when using 1024x768 resolution. You can use full screen mode, see FAQ.
• If you'd like to create a shortcut to Gccg on your desktop, it's a little tricky, but possible. Open a new Terminal window, then go to "Save As." Make sure that "Execute this command" and "Execute command in a shell" boxes are selected. Type the following in the command box:
  ~/gccg/Game
  where you give a full path to the script launhing the game. Then save the .term file as whatever you like. Double-clicking this file will automatically execute the above command and open Gccg. Note that you can add parameters to the above command, like --user nick and --full.

Source

• Make sure that you have libraries (includig headers) SDL, SDL_image, SDL_net and SDL_ttf.
• Install gccg-core-0.7.23.tgz module as described above. Then, instead of binaries, install source code
  ./gccg_package install client fonts source
• Compile
  ./configure
  make
  
• Continue as above and install game modules.

Notes:

• Source does not currently compile with gcc v3.1. At least some versions have problems with maps involving templated member function pointers. However, usually you can install other compiler versions too in your system. Usually the extra compiler is named like gcc2 or gcc-3.2. You may use non-default compiler by editing environment variables CC=gcc2, CXX=g++2 and LD=g++2 settings in Makefile.

Windows

Install Game.bat

It downloads and installs all Gccg modules needed to play the particular Game. To play the game, launch

Game.bat

and follow the instructions on screen. To update all modules installed later, launch the the update script called

Update Everything.bat

Other

• Not available for other platforms yet. Should compile easily on any platform with SDL.

Documentation

FAQ

Browsable reference manual.

Links

Gccg

Metw

Authors

Code

Miscellaneous contributions

Playtesting

Special thanks