Thank you Dan!

This toy is very interesting for me to get some hints for game GUI
programming while becoming more familiar with morphic...

Stephan


Dan Ingalls wrote:
> 
> Folks -
> 
> I've just updated a little toy that I wrote a couple of years ago.  It plays a decent game of Chinese Checkers, and you can play with any mix of human and computer players.  It's also a pretty small program (20k with a fair number of comments), and you can run it in straight morhpic or morphic under MVC.
> 
> My real intention, though, is that by providing a simple working game, some brave souls out in Squeakville might be motivated to write the network wrapper that would allow this to be run over the internet.  Such a framework would then in turn lend itself to other board games like checkers, chess, backgammon (my favorite), pente, go, othello, etc.
> 
> What's fun about these games is that you can play them as person/computer, person/person over the net, or play them as a program competition over the net, with the winner being the one with the best program.  You won't find it hard to improve on this program, but you may also be surprised how well it does as is.
> 
> Anyway, I've got too much else going on right now.  File it in and have fun with it (and feel free to re-release it when you have the internet framework working ;-).
> 
> Enjoy
>         - Dan
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