Ludi Game in the making C# .net2.0

[crosswire]

If you run the app, you will see a ludi board with 4 A.I. players

This code controls them

                //move what was rolled
                if ((dicevals[0] == 6) || (dicevals[1] == 6))
                {
                    //If unborn piecses, born them

                    if (players[turn].HasUnborn())
                    {
                        //born piece(s)
                        players[turn].BornFirstUnbornPiece();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                         //else just move
                        players[turn].BeginMovePieceAtBack(dicevals[0]);
                    }

                    //Roll again
                    turn--;
                }
                else
                {
                    //move last piece
                    if (players[turn].HasBorn())
                        players[turn].BeginMovePieceAtBack(dicevals[0]);//(diceval, 0);
                }

                turn++;
                if (turn == nPlayers)
                    turn = 0;

The first dice is used alone, as the code above suggests. Dices are displayed as numbers in top left.

Bugs.
-first two dispays are ignored
-Program crashes when a peice reaches the end.

If someone wants to suggest an AI pattern then they are welcome
Just use straight psedo code
You can even make up new player functions eg Player.CanMove(int space), bool Player.KillsOtherPlayer(int space), and so on

Here is the app
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FBGB3NPZ

Thanks

[khat17]

This looks like it will be interesting. I'll ask some friends I know who do programming to jump on.

[mykel]

yo the game sell off although mi neva see nuh dice a through still, but its kool to kno that u guys develop a game and it a do a ting yuh kno, i dont kno nothing bout programming ao this lil thing is kool

[Skele Drew]

Game's looking good so far. But where's the full source code? Wouldn't mind tinkering with it myself... maybe I could even find those bugs. The AIs could have different personalities, like offensive play (attempts to destroy any pieces in front), defensive play (tries to born all pieces and move them close together), speed play (tries to finish with it's leading piece before focusing on the next), etc. Then to program so 1 to 4 persons can actually play. Even some of the official rules can be changed/added to/removed...

EDIT: I think the dice values should be checked separately (and even sorted) - instead of ORing - so different choices can be made based on what was tossed. The values (along with all players' piece positions) could be passed to a selected AI routine for processing...

[crosswire]

This looks like it will be interesting. I'll ask some friends I know who do programming to jump on.

Thanks.

yo the game sell off although mi neva see nuh dice a through still, but its kool to kno that u guys develop a game and it a do a ting yuh kno, i dont kno nothing bout programming ao this lil thing is kool

Thanks. Dices use a randon int generating function and is fair and random. Animation can be added later.

Game's looking good so far. But where's the full source code? Wouldn't mind tinkering with it myself... maybe I could even find those bugs. The AIs could have different personalities, like offensive play (attempts to destroy any pieces in front), defensive play (tries to born all pieces and move them close together), speed play (tries to finish with it's leading piece before focusing on the next), etc. Then to program so 1 to 4 persons can actually play. Even some of the official rules can be changed/added to/removed...

EDIT: I think the dice values should be checked separately (and even sorted) - instead of ORing - so different choices can be made based on what was tossed. The values (along with all players' piece positions) could be passed to a selected AI routine for processing...

No full source will be available *publicly* due to me wanting to convert the code to web flash and for java phones if the game works out. I just want a small dedicated team of progammers that could prtticipate in the developement of the game.

I will use those ideas about the AI that were detailed above. Would you assist. I think I could convert the graphics to a dll or something so the AI coded app would run with the dll in order to test AIs.

I will also allow mods on the rules of play including "lock and stop" (some old gameplay where two peices had to be born first before you can cross the goal, this I was told. I will get the details) I was thinking about "locks with 2 pieces that can be broken by nother player"
PS the baord can actually morph with a triangle in the center or pentagon, or any polygon, but I limit it 8 players and the program runs just the same.

About the dice sorting, that is a good idea. Dices are curently placed in a List<int> and I have list.Sort() and list.Reverse() but the later are commented for 2 reasons
1) simplicity - my demo uses only dice 1 only
2)I do not want to steer anyone coding of the AI
but I think you should try a thing, you seem to know well what you are doing

[Skele Drew]

No full source will be available *publicly* due to me wanting to convert the code to web flash and for java phones if the game works out. I just want a small dedicated team of progammers that could prtticipate in the developement of the game.

I will use those ideas about the AI that were detailed above. Would you assist. I think I could convert the graphics to a dll or something so the AI coded app would run with the dll in order to test AIs.

I will also allow mods on the rules of play including "lock and stop" (some old gameplay where two peices had to be born first before you can cross the goal, this I was told. I will get the details) I was thinking about "locks with 2 pieces that can be broken by nother player"
PS the baord can actually morph with a triangle in the center or pentagon, or any polygon, but I limit it 8 players and the program runs just the same.

About the dice sorting, that is a good idea. Dices are curently placed in a List<int> and I have list.Sort() and list.Reverse() but the later are commented for 2 reasons
1) simplicity - my demo uses only dice 1 only
2)I do not want to steer anyone coding of the AI
but I think you should try a thing, you seem to know well what you are doing

I wouldn't mind being a part of the team. I'm primarily a functionality programmer, not much for the graphics stuff. I've got quite a few ideas floating around, though I think some would make the game too bloated (I tend to get easily infected by the feature creature)...

I think these are the official rules.

[djK]

It would be nice to have a Nice animated Gui, 3d

[recursion]

You could even look into making the game playable over a network where the game is updated periodically to sync with the state in a database

[Arch_Angel]

Unno hurry up wid di game nuh. Mi whaa play ludi. And I especially like di over network feature. Always wanted to play a game on my local network wid my family.

[Anthon]

Who's developing this?