Show HN: Playable Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

by KennyCason • 13 years ago

160 50 13 years ago

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Inspired by the recent Hacker News post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5898506) and my desire to tinker with HTML5 a bit :) I was trying to make a nice "color pencil" effect, but still have some work to do.

gus_massa• 13 years ago

I like it. The green highlighting of the active subboard is too subtle and sometimes I miss it. Another option is to flash the active subboard when the players try to use another subboard.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Yeah, I uploaded originally without the highlighting, but I kept getting lost as well haha

Falling32• 13 years ago

Nice... it'd be really cool to get an AI to play against as well.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

I only had about 2-3 hours to work on it. :) But I agree it would be fun to add. I'll repost if I add AI in the future.

Falling32• 13 years ago

Oh yea, definitely not complaining.

mbillie13• 13 years ago

Doing the AI would be fun... it seems like one of those cases where Haskell/Clojure could provide a very elegant solution.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Love me some haskell. been playing with it for the past month as well. Have a mostly functioning BEP NN on my github. though for a problem like this AI would be simple :)

ellisonleao• 13 years ago

nice work man

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Thanks!

spicyj• 13 years ago

matchu posted an implementation earlier today (with an AI!) using the Khan Academy CS environment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901365

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Nice. I guess I definitely have to build AI now haha

atjoslin• 13 years ago

Now to make a multiplayer version... I would use Firebase and Angular probably. Unfortunately I don't feel like staying up all night on a project tonight :-p

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

V2.0 coming to a browser near you!

mbillie13• 13 years ago

I was messing with this the last few hours... beat me to it :) well done! What'd you use?

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Cool:) just used JQuery and canvas. I built all the draw functions myself just to get more familiar with HTML5

dreen2• 13 years ago

thats pretty cool

edit: oops, stuck http://i.imgur.com/nTOJq1F.png

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

All software is accepted as is.. Etc etc haha jk thanks! I'll check what happened!

millzlane• 13 years ago

I just played out this scenario, at this point player O must select any empty space.

af3• 13 years ago

don't have time to play, contributing to LLVM...

Sami_Lehtinen• 13 years ago

If I would be unemployed, I would create ultimate 3D tic tac toe for hardcore players.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Step 1: quit job Step 2: create ultimate 3d tic tac toe

ramki• 13 years ago

http://i.imgur.com/QuPvQyF.png this is the bug i found with this game, how x can win, when I(in blue) scored 4 before x reaches 3

redthrowaway• 13 years ago

The goal is not to win the most boards, but to complete 3 in a row on the large board by winning the small boards. If you're aware of that, I'm not sure what you're claiming the bug is. Could you clarify?

bdirgo• 13 years ago

X got three in a row

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Fixed random mouse offset bug & whenever all tile become playable, they are all highlighted. With the exception of the start state (As I think it looks better white)

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Also added fork on github link

sold• 13 years ago

First turn should belong to X not O.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

fortunately that is very easy to fix, done.

Kiro• 13 years ago

It's fun to see that whenever a game concept reaches the front page there are at least 10 different implementations done within hours. Good job.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Thanks, I woke up around lunch and saw the post and was like, well, I guess I know what I'm doing today. Honestly I only originally planned on working on my "color pencil" line drawing. haha

gklitt• 13 years ago

Nice job Kenny! We should play sometime.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Sure! let me get the multi-player and AI-Complete version done, or we could bust out the marker board/paper :)

christiangenco• 13 years ago

Ahh damn, that was going to be what my fork of your project was going to do.

I'll just leave you to it, then :p

deletes• 13 years ago

Too bad the first player always wins.

sigkill• 13 years ago

Fwiw I found this one better and it has a rudimentary AI too.

(not mine)

http://joeyrobert.org/projects/ultimatetictactoe/

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Cool. I'll add AI mine to mine later. It was a quick two hour hack. Thanks for the link to another one. I'll see what they did for AI. Though I'll probably employ a simple alpha-beta pruning alg

joeyrobert• 13 years ago

Thanks for the plug. I too hacked it out in a couple of hours after reading the article.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Nice. Good job!:)

rschmitty• 13 years ago

Hah, that was the first thing I thought about when I read the article yesterday. Then I checked out ultimatetictactoe.com and found it was registered the same day and I got sad :(

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

Very sad :/

DanBC• 13 years ago

I'd love to see an HN competition of AIs learning and playing UltimateTicTacToe.

KennyCason23• 13 years ago

I'm inclined to say there are already a few simple AIs that play perfectly, so it would likel not be that exciting :/

jrpt• 13 years ago

This is cool.

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