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News

Nov 12th 2008: Gccg is under active development again! Join #gccg on EFNet.

Server available at the moment for all games: Mtg, Pokémon, Metw, Nr, Cthulhu and Lotr.

Introduction

Generic Collectible Card Game is a multiplayer multiplatform implementation of a card game engine. The card game engine is designed to be of general purpose core for several modules each defining the game specific behaviour. Players download a client for their platform and all modules of interest. After launching the client for one of the games, it connects to the central server of the game chosen. When connected, all aspects of the collecting, trading and playing are availble to the player. Here is a brief summary of features:

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.
Sep 1st 2005: Gccg II project postponed.
Nov 12th 2008: First complete Netrunner game was played.
Dec 4th 2008: First complete Cthulhu game was played.

Screenshots

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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-0.9.0.tgz to the game directory and unpack
tar xzvf gccg-core-0.9.0.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

Source

Make sure that you have libraries (includig headers) SDL, SDL_image, SDL_net and SDL_ttf.
Install gccg-core-0.9.0.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.

Source code is also available gccg-source-0.9.1.tgz here.

Windows

If you are interested in development, you should install Gccg with Cygwin as explained in the Cygwin guide. Otherwise you can just download the general windows installer. Unpack all files to your harddrive and then run the game installer named

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

IRC EFNet: /join #gccg.

FAQ

Browsable reference manual.

Authors

Code

Tommi Ronkainen

Miscellaneous contributions

Antti Kantola, Aaron, Ilja Savolainen, Richard R. Buonanno, Napsu, Aleksi Keurulainen, Malakh Harbonah, Peter van Hardenberg, Jukka Karvonen, Antonio Cardenas, Jani Pietikäinen, FaUsT, Jonas Jermann, Pierre Bureau, Joshua Delahunty, Petteri Nurmesjärvi, Dyami Serna, Gerard Glaser, Bannor, Peter Minten, Dario Carlentini, Kuba Krchak, Dark, Grilled Fish, Kris Van Beurden, Ilkka Launonen, Mark Alfano, Vastor Peredhil a Aerfaroth, Nicolas Perotin.

Playtesting

Petteri Nurmesjärvi, Ilja Savolainen, Veli Maaranen, Aleksi Keurulainen, Jukka Karvonen, Antti Kantola, Tommi Aittola, Lavapunk, Wim Heemskerk, Timo Tuomainen

Special thanks

Andre Arko and Tom Hackett (for providing me access to OS X).