/// <summary>
/// Plays the next turn in the game.
/// </summary>
private void NextTurn()
{
totalTurns++;
// the play area represents the area on the "table" where all cards would
// normally be in play. An ICollection is used to serve as a type of card
// pool since the winner of the round takes all cards.
ICollection <Card> playArea = new List <Card>();
// each player plays the card on top of their deck
Card p1Card = Player1.Deck.Dequeue();
Card p2Card = Player2.Deck.Dequeue();
// the cards are then added to the play area
playArea.Add(p1Card);
playArea.Add(p2Card);
// check to see if war has been triggered
// this comparison is a while loop because the war condition can be triggered
// a number of times in sequence. Doing it this way demands that the final
// cards drawn for each player be different before doing the final comparison
// to see who won the round.
while (p1Card.Value == p2Card.Value)
{
Console.WriteLine(SEPERATOR);
Console.WriteLine("WAR!!!");
// make sure each player has enough cards for war.
// if you don't have enough cards, you can't go to war
// and you automatically lose.
// similar enough to real life to make sense - you can't go to war without proper supplies.
// Since the GameOver() method checks to see if any of the players is out of cards,
// the player without enough cards for war has their deck discarded which forces an end to the game.
if (!PlayerHasEnoughCardsForWar(Player1))
{
Player1.Deck.Clear();
Console.WriteLine($"{Player1.Name} doesn't have enough cards for war.\n{Player2.Name} wins!");
break;
}
if (!PlayerHasEnoughCardsForWar(Player2))
{
Player2.Deck.Clear();
Console.WriteLine($"{Player2.Name} doesn't have enough cards for war.\n{Player1.Name} wins!");
break;
}
// the rules of war dictate that each user must add one card face down
// and then add another face up and the second card drawn in that sequence
// is the one used for determining the winner of war and the round
// this operates the same way as beginning a turn, including adding each card
// drawn to the play area for collection by the winner
playArea.Add(Player1.Deck.Dequeue());
playArea.Add(Player2.Deck.Dequeue());
p1Card = Player1.Deck.Dequeue();
p2Card = Player2.Deck.Dequeue();
playArea.Add(p1Card);
playArea.Add(p2Card);
}
// determine winner and assign cards in play area to winner
if (p1Card.Value > p2Card.Value)
{
Console.WriteLine(SEPERATOR);
Console.WriteLine($"{Player1.Name} wins the round!");
Player1.AddCardsToDeck(playArea);
}
else if (p1Card.Value < p2Card.Value)
{
Console.WriteLine(SEPERATOR);
Console.WriteLine($"{Player2.Name} wins the round!");
Player2.AddCardsToDeck(playArea);
}
Console.WriteLine($"{Player1.Name} played: " + p1Card);
Console.WriteLine($"{Player2.Name} played: " + p2Card);
Console.WriteLine($"Turns taken: {totalTurns}");
playArea.Clear();
// A game of War without shuffling each player's deck every so often can run indefinitely (or seem to).
// Some variants of the classic game suggest that a player must shuffle their deck at various
// intervals or when they have used all of their cards before using the cards they have won
// since the last time they shuffled.
// Since a previously run simulation has taken upwards of 3.2 million turns, a good middle ground
// is to shuffle on a specified interval. This greatly improves the speed of a game.
// Most of the games that use this logic end well before 1000 turns.
if (totalTurns % SHUFFLE_INTERVAL == 0)
{
ShufflePlayerDeck(Player1);
ShufflePlayerDeck(Player2);
}
}