The Natoufa Project

"Taking computers to a higher level"

This is a game I wrote for an "AI in Game Design" course I took at college. It is a fair game, but incomplete. Being written in a very short time, it is coded fairly slopily and lacks certain features of a checkers game - like multiple jumps. The AI is simple but quite good for what it is. But, it is limited and it shows especially at endgame.

The code is written in C and is built on the curses library. To build, just run 'make' and the executable is 'checkers'. This should build on all UNIX-like systems.

TODO

clean up the code base!
implement all game rules - i.e. multiple jumps
possibly switch from a curses interface to just a terminal (could make it easier to serve as a backend for a GUI frontend
write a better AI heuristic
add move databases

The game can be downloaded here: checkers

last modified: 05/15/2009 21:58:28

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