Codenames

Code infrastructure and player algorithms for the Codenames board game.

This is the active fork of mkali-personal/codenames.

Intro

• This is based on Google's word2vec algorithm.
• Planning document.
• Online gaming platform.

Installation

1. Create a virtual environment.
2. Install dependencies using make install (or run the same command from the Makefile).

After that:

• To use the online Namecoding adapter:
  1. Download Selenium's Google Chrome adapter (mind your OS version and Google Chrome version!).
  2. Put the chromedriver file in ./codenames/online.
• Follow the Get the data section in this file to download language files.

Get the data

English

1. Download the zip file.
2. Extract the GoogleNews-vectors-negative300.bin file into the language_data/ folder and rename it to english.bin.

Hebrew

Look in the GitHub repo.

How to export explanation video:

Run in terminal: make video-render.

If that didn't work: try python -m manim videos/explanation.py KalirmozExplanation -pql\h.