Settlers of Catan is a recreation of the popular boardgame made entirely in Java. The game was made primarily using NetBeans IDE 8.2. Originally the game started out as the final project for my grade 12 programming course ICS4U, but I enjoyed working on it so much it quickly became more. Originally the project began as a collaboration between me and a classmate Evan. The first ~2000 lines of code we evenly written between Evan and I. After the project for ICS4U was completed, I continued to work on the project solo adding the remaining ~8000 lines of code slowly over the last 2 years.

The entire code base is written without the use of an external libraries or frameworks. It's either all custom code or included java libraries. The graphics are all drawn with AWT or Graphics2D java libraries. Nearly all of the art assets and sprites were drawn by Alex Eckardt, whom I owe a huge thank you. One of the features I am most proud of is the online play capabilities. I'll admit it is definitely not the cleanest code, and barely works, but I am very pleased that I got it to work at all. The current net code makes use of Sockets and ServerSockets to set up communication. A lot of the connection and initialization is riddled with bugs, and I would like to rewrite large portions in the future. As of writing the current system sets up a hub server on the computer of player 1 (the red player) and auto connects a client connection for the red player. Then the remaining player create a client instance and connect to the red players Computer over the selected port.