Anthony Chen, Shaurya Sen, Amber Shen
SongGuessr: A live multiplayer game where players guess the song that is playing.
Players connect to a host server. They initially wait in a lobby. When the game starts, the host plays a randomized song. Players type their guesses in the terminal, with a 1s cooldown. Players can see other players' guesses. When a player guesses a song correctly, the server will notify everyone. After each song, player scores are displayed in everyone's terminals.
How you will be using the topics covered in class in the project.
- Allocating Memory: Store information about songs, guesses, and other game data.
- Working With Files: Work with mp3 files for the songs. Read and write player scores.
- Processes (fork, exec etc.): Have multiple clients connect to a host sever.
- Sockets: Handle communication between clients and server.
What algorithms and/or data structures you will be using, and how.
- Array/LinkedList: store songs, track players
- Structs
- Player: id, name, score
- Song: name, artist
- Random: shuffle songs, pick a song wthout repetition
| Day | Date | Task | Assigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/4/24 | Set up project (makefile, files, methods), create branches | All |
| 2 | 1/5/24 | Get user input for guess, with 1s cooldown between guesses (no server) | Amber |
| 1/5/24 | Pick a song from a list randomly, without repetition | Shaurya | |
| 1/5/24 | Create forking network server with sockets | Anthony | |
| 3 | 1/8/24 | Check guesses & award points for the correct answer (no server) | Amber |
| 1/8/24 | Play a song from an MP3 file (no server) | Shaurya | |
| 1/8/24 | Listen for input from all players, display messages to everyone | Anthony | |
| 4 | 1/9/24 | Create a leaderboard keeping track of player scores | Amber |
| 1/9/24 | Implement player join procedure (prompt for name, display message) | Anthony | |
| 1/9/24 | Play a random 15s snippet of a song (no server) | Shaurya | |
| 5 | 1/10/24 | Implement game control (introduce song, check guesses, update score, send leaderboard) | Amber & Anthony |
| 1/10/24 | Play snippets of shuffled songs continuously until end of playlist | Shaurya | |
| 6 | 1/11/24 | Play songs and move on after a correct guess | Shaurya |
| 7 | 1/12/24 | Bug squashes | All |
| 8 | 1/15/24 | Finishing touches | All |
Possible add-ons
- Display number of letters with underscores
- Players vote to skip song
- Guesses can have typos (typo tolerance)
- Songs wll be played on every player's computer rather than just the host's
- Host can add songs to the game queue
- Host can change more game settings