HN: Like playing Mancala? Review my new site. It is a side project.

by jacktasia • 17 years ago

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jacktasia6• 17 years ago

Since people seemed to like this non-Flash Go game ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678145 ) I thought I would try and see if I could get any reviews for my side project Mancala Time. I'll admit I submitted this (in a very early form) about 3 months ago but no one made any comments. Thanks.

michael_dorfman2• 17 years ago

I thought the implementation looked very nice, although I hadn't played by those rules before. Well done.

jacktasia6• 17 years ago

Thanks for checking it out. Yeah, mancala is a genre of games. This is actually kalah, but most americans know this version as "mancala." If the site catches on I plan on adding Oware...which is my guess of the version that you are used to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalah

dfield• 17 years ago

I like it... maybe you can improve the difficulty of your AIs some?

jacktasia6• 17 years ago

Thanks for checking it out. I do plan on improving them by using the list of moves that I record...I am thinking of making a Robot API or something too...but it's hard to be motivated to improve them too much when a large majority of people lose to Rex. This also makes the idea of finding the best move out of the moves that have occurred flawed (for now anyway) too.

boredguy8• 17 years ago

Rex pretty much prioritizes getting a 'second move'. I've yet to see him protect against a capture.

dpcan• 17 years ago

Gotta love these CS 101 C++ projects becoming weekend web apps.

dannyr• 17 years ago

When I first saw the game, I though it was sungka from the Philippines.

Apparently, they are very similar, if not the same, games.

http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Sungka

jacktasia6• 17 years ago

I had not heard of that version. Thanks for the link.

HN: Like playing Mancala? Review my new site. It is a side project.

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