IGo - The Go Game For Your Calculator!

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 4:55 pm

Hello guys, I've started working on a new project. Go is a board game from Japan, which some guys here might be acknowledged with here. I've started playing it about 2 months ago and i'm really enjoying it, became an official player and member of the Ghent Go club. Since as far as I know there are no Go games for calculator, I wanted to share this game with you, and thus make it myself

IGo will feature:
- nice greyscale graphics
- 9x9 boards (i might include 13x13 and 19x19 boards as well, don't know yet)
- possibly link play or multiplayer with 1 calculator
- probably a (good) AI for the computer, cause else it'd be pretty boring playing it by yourself, or against a shitty AI... Go has a much harder AI than chess, so this'll be hard...
- whatever else a Go game needs

Screenshot & sprites:

The spritesheet

A test of the sprites

The status panel

These gfx were made by root of the #tcpa channel on IRC, who will be doing all the necessary gfx for the game (except menu or something which i might make myself). I've started coding some general stuff, no real progress there yet, but I hope I can show you some stuff of the game in action soon!

Post by **Kozak** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 5:08 pm

It is....beautiful. I also have the Go game my dad imported from China. I think it's a pretty hard game to play. Are there ways I can play against you on the internet?

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 5:36 pm

Yea, it's beautiful, root rocks. Wow, you play Go? Sweet. Yea, it's very hard, takes years of practice to become a good player. And yes, there are ways. I'll show you when you get on MSN

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 6:59 pm

Looks really nice! I hope to see this get finished, so someone can make a go solver

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CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 7:16 pm

Actually, my cousin used to run a go club at the university she went to. She has a bunch of books on it. The graphics you posted look great. I hope the AI programming goes well.
Hey, here's an idea. Have a contest to see who can write the best AI for 9x9 go. People wouldn't even have to know how to program, just a bunch of pseudo code would work as well, if you wanted to see what logic you need to do.

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 7:19 pm

Thanks kalan. Go solver? LOL You wish

Compwiz: Nice, if you're interested you could check out the books. And yes, the graphics are great. The AI programming will be hard but i'll try my best! Hmm... the contest isn't a bad idea... I'll think about it

pacHa · Post by **pacHa** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 7:47 pm

I must say it's beautiful

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 8:00 pm

Thanks pacHa, you guys all have to say that to root, he made the gfx, i'm just gonna turn them into the game

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Tue 07 Mar, 2006 11:14 pm

Well I will let him know they look nice later on tcpa. Any programming done yet?

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 6:36 am

Yea, some general stuff, not much yet, haven't had time. But i'll code some more this week.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 2:45 pm

I'm glad to see you working on something again. How much code is done?

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 3:29 pm

Not much yet, haven't had much time yet to code... Also, waiting for root to get done with all the gfx he's doing

Like this one he just gave me:

I'm thinking about letting the player decide (in Options) if they want to play in normal or Japanese style

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 3:51 pm

the_unknown_one wrote:I'm thinking about letting the player decide (in Options) if they want to play in normal or Japanese style

What's the difference?

That pic looks great for only 4 lvl grayscale.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 4:03 pm

Yeah i looks great, but could it be possible to make the bottom a little lighter or a little more of a gradient effect.

the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Wed 08 Mar, 2006 5:33 pm

Compwiz: the difference is between the last board (and status panel) and the old board (root hasn't made a "normal" panel yet).
Kalan: Ah THAT's what you mean, didn't get it at revsoft. Well, i'd have to discuss that with root...