Scotland Yard Board Game

Callum Ke

This is the full coursework for my first year Object Orientated Programming course in Java. It simulates the Scotland Yard board game.

• A GUI skeleton was given. To pass the coursework(50%) you needed to implement methods to pass all the tests.
• To obtain the rest of the marks you had to implement an AI to play as the MrX Player to find the next best move.
  • The AI I implemented uses Dijkstras algorithm and a location weighting factor to choose the best move.

How to Run

To run the program you will need to have Maven installed
To check the tests pass run:

mvn clean test

To play the game/open the GUI run:

mvn clean compile exec:java

How to Play

The game can be played in three ways:

1. Player vs Player
   • This is the default setting
2. Player vs MrX AI
   • This is done by choosing 'MrXAI' as the player for MrX in the dropdown menu.
3. Random Detective AI vs MrX AI
   • This is to quickly show how the MrX AI works without any user playing
   • This is done by choosing 'DetectiveAI' and 'MrXAI' in the dropdown menus.