Playing Gnocatan

Gnocatan player's guide
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# Chapter 3. Playing Gnocatan

# Joining a Gnocatan game.

The Gnocatan client program is gnocatan. When you run this program, you will be presented with the connect dialog.

## The connect dialog

Using the connect dialog, you identify the game which you wish to join. This dialog is automatically invoked when you start gnocatan. If the initial connection fails, you can invoke the dialog from the Game/Connect menu, or by using the Ctrl-C keyboard shortcut.

Figure 3-1. The connect dialog.

You can manually specify the game that you wish to join by entering the server host and port in the Server Host and Server Port fields respectively. Alternatively, you can press the Meta Server button which will invoke the servers dialog where you can locate games over the Internet.

Using the Player Name field you can change the name that will be used to identify you to other players.

Press the OK button to connect to the game.

## The servers dialog

The servers dialog displays a list of all Gnocatan games that are currently running on the Internet. When you select a game from the list, the host and port fields in the connect dialog will changed to point to that game.

Figure 3-2. The servers dialog.

You join a game by pressing the OK button in the connect dialog. To obtain an updated list, you must close the dialog and re-open it from the connect dialog.

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