Re: Turn Based Games

Jason Reposa wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a professor that has been given the honorable task of creating a
> video game programming course. One of my assignments in AI will be to
> have the students implement a function called algorithm() using a code
> base that I would provide.
>
> Using a common protocol (tcp/ip of course) I was hoping to have the
> students pair off, complete algorithm(), and have a tournament to see
> who's algorithm worked the best.
>
> I'm having a hard time trying to find a good turn based game to base
> the lesson on. I was thinking tic tac toe, but using a* you can come
> up with the best solution in near nano-seconds. I want something with
> a little more variance than that, but not too complex.
>
> I was looking into Othello, but I wanted your input before I made
> anything concrete.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Reposa
> http://www.reposagroup.com

How about soccer?

http://www.cs.colby.edu/~rjones/tclsoccer/

The link above points to a TCL-based "soccer" game...I also have a 
Java-based version (that's a little better in a few ways) lying around 
somewhere, if you're interested.