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Cockatrice | Download | Related | Community | Contribute | Build | Run

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To get started with Cockatrice ⇢ view our webpage

To get support, or suggest changes to the app ⇢ file an issue (How?)
To help with development ⇢ learn how to contribute

Cockatrice

Cockatrice is an open-source, multiplatform application for playing tabletop card games over a network. The program's server design prevents users from manipulating the game for unfair advantage. The client also provides a single-player mode, which allows users to brew while offline.

This project uses C++ and the Qt libraries.
First work on a webclient with Typescript was started as well.

Download

Downloads are available for stable releases and the current beta version in development.
There is no strict release schedule for either of them.

Latest stable release:
  

Latest beta version:
   
While incorporating the latest fixes and features, beta builds may not be stable or contain new bugs!
Please report any findings and open new issues when testing them!

Related Repositories

• Magic-Token: File with MtG token data for use in Cockatrice
• Magic-Spoiler: Code to generate MtG spoiler data from MTGJSON for use in Cockatrice
• cockatrice.github.io: Code of the official Cockatrice webpage
• io.github.Cockatrice.cockatrice: Configuration of our Linux flatpak package hosted at Flathub

Community Resources

Join our Discord community to connect with other project contributors (#dev channel) or fellow users of the app. Come here to talk about the application, features, or just to hang out.

• Official Website
• Official Wiki
• Official Discord
• reddit r/Cockatrice

Important

For support regarding specific servers, please contact that server's admin/mods and use their dedicated communication channels rather than contacting the team building the software.

Contribute

Code | Documentation | Translation

Repository Activity

Kudos to all our amazing contributors ❤️

_{Made with contrib.rocks}

Code

To contribute code to the project, please review our guidelines first.
We maintain two tags for contributors to easier find issues to potentially work on:

• 
  Issues tagged in this way provide a simple way to get started. They don't require much experience to be worked on.
• 
  This tag is used for issues that we are looking for somebody to pick up. Often this is for feature suggestions we support, but don't have the time to work on ourselves.

For both tags, we're willing to provide help to contributors in showing them where and how they can make changes, as well as code reviews for submitted changes.
We'll happily advice on how best to implement a feature, or we can show you where the codebase is doing something similar before you get too far along - put a note on an issue you want to discuss more on!

You can also have a look at our Todo List in our Code Documentation or search the repo for \todo comments.

Documentation

There are various places where useful information for different needs are maintained:

• Official Code Documentation
• Official Wiki Community supported
• Official Webpage
• Official README This file

Cockatrice tries to use the Google Developer Documentation Style Guide to ensure consistent documentation. We encourage you to improve the documentation by suggesting edits based on this guide.

Translation

Cockatrice uses Transifex to manage translations. You can help us bring Cockatrice, Oracle and Webatrice to your language and just adjust single wordings right from within your browser by visiting our Transifex project page.

Check out our Translator FAQ for more information about getting involved, and join a group of hundreds of others!

Build

Dependencies: (for minimum versions search our CMake file)

• Qt
• protobuf
• CMake

Oracle can optionally use some packages to load compressed card files:

• xz
• zlib

Basic compilation steps:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

You can then

• Create a Cockatrice installation inside the release folder:

  make install
  

• Or make an installation package specific to your system:

  make package
  

Note

Detailed compiling instructions can be found in the Cockatrice wiki at Compiling Cockatrice

The following flags (with their non-default values) can be passed to cmake:

Flag	Description
-DWITH_SERVER=1	Build Servatrice server
-DWITH_CLIENT=0	Don't build Cockatrice client
-DWITH_ORACLE=0	Don't build Oracle card database tool
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug	Compile in debug mode Enables extra logging output, debug symbols, and much more verbose compiler warnings
-DWARNING_AS_ERROR=0	Don't treat compilation warnings as errors in debug mode
-DUPDATE_TRANSLATIONS=1	Configure make to update the translation .ts files for new strings in the source code Note: make clean will remove the .ts files
-DTEST=1	Enable regression tests Note: make test to run tests, googletest will be downloaded if not available
-DFORCE_USE_QT5=1	Skip looking for Qt6 before trying to find Qt5

Run

Cockatrice is the game client
Oracle fetches card data
Servatrice is the server

Docker

You can build an image & deploy a Servatrice (Cockatrice server) container using Docker and our Dockerfile yourself.

For more details, look into our wiki section on Setting up Servatrice.
You'll also find more hints on our pre-build image there, or the docker-compose file which will configure and run both a MySQL server and Servatrice.

License

Cockatrice is free software, licensed under the GPLv2.