🃏 Yu-Gi-Oh! — JavaFX Trading Card Game

A full Yu-Gi-Oh! dueling game built in Java + JavaFX, featuring online player-vs-player matches, an interactive AI opponent, a complete duel engine, and a custom card creator.

🎥 Video preview:watch the gameplay on Aparat

• Course: Advanced Programming — Spring 2021 · Team-20
• Team: Pooya Esmaeil Akhoondy · Mohammad Mowlavi Sorond · Mohammad Javad Maheronnaghsh

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📋 Overview

This project re-implements most of the experience of a real Yu-Gi-Oh! game — from account login and deck building to full duels — on a client–server architecture. Two clients can connect to the same server and duel each other online, or a single player can take on the AI.

Two standout features:

1. 🎨 Card Creator — design any card with any combination of effects. The more effects a card has, the higher its price. (See the CardCreator menu in-game.)
2. 🤖 Interactive AI gameplay — beyond standard player-vs-player play, the AI mode adds richer, interactive dueling actions, including a cinematic "Supreme King" boss with 22 animated cutscenes.

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🏗️ Architecture

The game runs as a server that holds all game logic and state, and one or more clients that render the JavaFX UI and send player actions.

flowchart LR
subgraph C1 [Client 1 · JavaFX]
V1[Views & Controllers]
end
subgraph C2 [Client 2 · JavaFX]
V2[Views & Controllers]
end
subgraph S [Server · Java]
NET[Network handler]
ND[Non-duel controllers<br/>login · shop · deck · profile]
D[Duel engine<br/>phases · summons · effects · chain]
AI[AI opponent]
DB[(Storage<br/>users · cards · decks)]
NET --> ND
NET --> D
D --> AI
ND --> DB
D --> DB
end
V1 <-- "requests / responses" --> NET
V2 <-- "requests / responses" --> NET

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🎮 Duel Flow

A duel follows the standard Yu-Gi-Oh! turn structure, with each phase driven by its own controller on the server:

flowchart LR
RPS[Rock-Paper-Scissors<br/>decide who starts] --> DP[Draw Phase]
DP --> SP[Standby Phase]
SP --> M1[Main Phase 1<br/>summon · set · activate]
M1 --> BP[Battle Phase<br/>attacks · chains]
BP --> M2[Main Phase 2]
M2 --> EP[End Phase]
EP -->|next turn| DP
BP -.->|life points = 0| WIN[Win / Lose]

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Supported duel actions include Normal / Tribute / Special / Flip summon, set monster & spell/trap, change position, monster-to-monster & direct attacks, spell/trap activation, and full chain resolution — plus cheat codes for testing.

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✨ Features

Area	What it does
Accounts	Register, login, profile management
Deck building	Deck menu + deck editor (main / side deck), import & export decks
Shop	Buy cards, admin shop panel, and an auction page
Card Creator	Build fully custom cards; price scales with the chosen effects
Online play	Server–client networking for player-vs-player duels
AI duel	Interactive AI opponent with board understanding & phase "minds"
Supreme King	Cinematic AI boss with 22 cutscene videos
Social	Chat room, tweets, scoreboard
Extras	Rock-Paper-Scissors start, in-game music, animated transitions

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🧠 Under the Hood

• Duel engine — dedicated controllers per phase and per action (GamePhaseControllers, ActionConductors), card-effect handlers (CardEffects), and a ChainController for resolving effect chains.
• AI — a modular opponent (AIBattlePhaseMind, AIMainPhaseMind, AIBoardUnderstander, AICardFinder, AIQueryUnderstander) that reads the board and plans actions per phase.
• Card model — separated data for Monster / Spell / Trap cards with typed effect enums.
• Persistence — user, card, and deck data stored on the server (JSON via Gson, CSV via OpenCSV).

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🗂️ Repository Structure

Yu-Gi-Oh/
├── src/main/java/project/
│ ├── client/ # JavaFX views & controllers (MainView is the entry point)
│ │ └── view/ # Login, MainMenu, Shop, DeckMenu, CardCreator, ChatRoom, ...
│ ├── server/ # Main server + game logic
│ │ └── controller/
│ │ ├── duel/ # duel engine: phases, summons, effects, chain, AI, cheats
│ │ └── non_duel/ # login, shop, deck, profile, scoreboard, tweets, storage
│ └── model/ # card data, effect enums, utilities
├── src/main/resources/ # FXML, CSS, images, icons, audio & Supreme King videos
├── Resourses/Server/ # server-side data
├── pom.xml # Maven build (JavaFX 16, Gson, OpenCSV, JUnit)
└── README.md

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🚀 Running the Game

This is a server–client application, so start the server first, then one or more clients.

# 1) Start the server# src/main/java/project/server/Main.java# 2) Start a client (the JavaFX app)# src/main/java/project/client/view/MainView.java

Run MainView again in a second instance to log in as another client and have the two play against each other — or duel the AI.

The project uses Maven with the JavaFX Maven plugin. Open it in an IDE (IntelliJ — .idea config is included) and run the two entry points above, or use the JavaFX plugin to launch.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Language: Java
• UI: JavaFX 16 (FXML + CSS), with media, animations & transitions
• Networking: server–client architecture (sockets)
• Data: Gson (JSON), OpenCSV (CSV)
• Build & test: Maven, JUnit 5