Traders and Tricksters

Traders and Tricksters is an online multiplayer board game. The goal of this game is to gather the 10 numerical cards (from 1 to 10) to get the highest score by trading your duplicate cards. However there are Trickster(s) among players which can offer fake cards that are not tradable and have negative points. After the round is complete, you'll get to guess and vote for the Trickster(s) among you to redeem your lost points. After multiple rounds, whoever reaches the max score will win the game. You can read the full tutorial of the game using the in-game menu.

!! SERVER REQUIRED !!

The version uploaded here is the non-Steam version, which means you have to host your game separately yourself (unlike the Steam version). However, this version is more stable than Steam's P2P. To do this, you need to run an instance of the game (on any supported platform) with the `--headless` argument using CLI, which would start a server for you and your friends to join.

Run a server on the default port of 9000 with default win score of 200 and without password protection:

$ ./traders --headless

Customize the port, win score and password protection like so:

$ ./traders --headless --port=8000 --score=400 --secret=mysupersecretpassword

After running the server, simply enter the Public IP of the server with the selected port like so `ip:port`. For example (the example below is for localhost, but you get the idea):

127.0.0.1:9000

If you're running the server on your own PC, then you probably need to setup port forwarding. An easier solution would be running it on a VPS (a single-core, 512MB RAM should do the job) and enabling the chosen port (default: 9000) on UDP.

!! FOR MAC USERS !!

The macOS version is not signed (which requires active Apple developer membership), and because of this, when initially starting the game you may see an error saying the game cannot be opened. The workaround is to open the app by right-clicking on the app icon, then clicking on Open, then on again on Open button in the dialog that appears. You only need to do this once.