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+# Defense of the SnederDome
+
+A quick and dirty prototype of a game server for snengame.
+
+Written in-between concussion dizzy spells; some decisions made to minimize having to think hard about them.
+Other decisions made to ease the Soon(tm) networkification of this code.
+
+## What's implemented
+* Most cards (Jokers are Valkyires)
+* Playing, moving, attacking cards
+* A hacky loop to test out game commands
+
+## What's not implemented
+* Actually winning or losing
+* Ready checking
+* Second player draws an extra card
+
+## How to test
+Run the snengame binary to use the built in game loop.
+
+Commands are entered like so:
+	s|a <player id> <command character> arguments
+
+State Commands:
+	d: Print debug screen
+	g: Print game screen
+	b: Begin game
+	s: Start turn
+	e: End turn
+Action Commands:
+	s: Scry your life points in cards
+	d <x>: Draw card at position x from your most recent scry
+	p <x> <y>: play card at postion x in your hand to postion y on your side of the board (from the left)
+	m <x> <y>: move card at position x on the board to position y on the board
+	a <x> <y>: attack position y with card at position x on the board 
+
+Example Commands:
+	s 1 d: (available to both players at any time) show debug screen
+	s 1 g: (available to both players at any time) show game screen
+	s 1 s: Start Player 1 (Sentinal)'s turn
+	a 2 p 0 1: Player 2 (Scourge) places the card at hand position 0 on board position 1
+	a 2 d 2: Player 2 (Scourge) draws the card at position 2 of their most recent scry
+
+## Other notes:
+Player 1 (the top side of the board) is known as Sentinal.
+Player 2 (the bottom side of the board) is known as Scourge.
+Yes these are from DOTA Allstars
+
+Any player can begin the game; whichever player presses the start command first goes first