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Pop-Up Card DuelRealization of a card videogame in JAVA

Alessandro Borione

Istituto Tecnico Industriale Don Orione FanoEsame di Stato 2014-2015Candidate: Alessandro Borione – Thesis: Pop-Up Card Duel

The evolution of videogamesStarting from the second post-war, videogames developed, and started to be part of people lifes.

Anyone can remember the mascottes of the big firms producing videogames since the 80s.

• Pac-Man (NAMCO)• Super Mario (Nintendo)• Sonic (SEGA)


The projectThe objective of this project is to realize an online multiplayer videogame.

The development of this project includes the usage of the following IT:• MySQL DataBase• JAVA• PHP


DataBase realizationThe project uses a DataBase to store datas of:• Cards• Players• Decks• Duel resutls

DataBase logical scheme


TriggerThe DataBase is provided with triggers, so that every time a new player il signing up, they will receive 3 cards, which are added to their collection to create their first basic deck.


RankingThe weekly ranking is generated by a query which counts the number of duels each player won during the last week, to order the list in descending order right after.SELECT player, COUNT(gamewon) AS totalgamewonFROM (

SELECT player1 AS player, COUNT(player1) AS gamewonFROM ’duels’WHERE result LIKE ’WIN1’ AND

duels.date >= (CURDATE() − INTERVAL 7 DAY)GROUP BY player1

UNION ALLSELECT player2 AS player, COUNT(player2) AS gamewonFROM ’duels’WHERE result LIKE ’WIN2’ AND

duels.date >= (CURDATE() − INTERVAL 7 DAY)GROUP BY player2

) AS tmp1GROUP BY playerORDER BY totalgamewon DESC;


Implementation procedureAfter realizing the DataBase and populating it correctly, the JAVA software has been implemented, consisting in 3 different projects with Client, Server and common library functions, hosted on the online platform GitHub.


ClientThe game Client has been realized in JAVA, and allows players to login with their username and password.

From the new window, a new game can be started,


ClientTo create the window which allows to choose the deck to use in the next battle, an object inheriting JDialog was used; the constructor method creates the windows and sets it visible, while another method is responsible for waiting untill the user has selected the deck, to return it to the main menu.


ServerThe Server has been realized with textual interface. It starts listening to communications on the port 31415, where it expectes to receive requests from the Client. The main requests are:• REGISTER• LOGIN• LOGOUT• START_BATTLE


PHPPHP has been uses only to create the description of the cards extracting datas from the DataBase. A new page has been created, taking in input, with the super-global array $_GET, the ID of the card to return the description.

For example, going ti the page 37.59.123.99/popup/cardDescription.php?card=6, you can see the description of the card with ID = 6.


ResultsThe final product isn’t complete yet, in fact it’s not possible to play in a duel. But the systems which permit login, logout, sign up and the request to start a new battle have been realized. Moreover, the proceedings to follow in the battles has been thought.


Conclusion and future updatesThe system submitted in this thesis has been largely tested, despite there are some bugs to be fixed.

Future updates regard changes to the login algorithm, to guarantee a more secure communication, the add of sounds and a shop to buy new cards.


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