Forever Odd

Essentially what the game consists of is you enter the size of your maze as an integer n (ie: 10) and then it generates a random maze of size nxn (ie: 10×10) which can be different for each nxn matrix you generate. Do to time restraints I wasn’t able to implement the A* search like [...]

Pathfinder is all about finding a path between point A and point B.  The GUI portion, provided for us, is sectioned off into a grid of ‘tiny’ squares where two are colored turquoise (set by programmer), in my case one on the mid left and the other on the mid right side of the grid.  You start [...]

This idea came to me one day while I was sitting in my math class waiting for it to start.  I had arrived quite early so I cracked out my PDA and started playing solitaire.  Then I got to thinking, wouldn’t it be neat to create my own card game in which I could make [...]

I am proud to announce the release of my SOS Game version 1.0.  This is the first “major” application I have done from start to finish on my own following some sort of software design.  Typically I would just dive in and started coding my applications, but this time I started by coming up with [...]

I am pretty much ready to release v1.0 of my SOS game, however, I was hoping that I would have come up with a logo that I could use to represent both my website and my software.
The following is a summary of my progress this week leading up to the release of version 1.0 (official [...]

Version 1.0 contains these features from the original feature set:

Playing area (grid)
Two player
Three difficulty settings (ie: board sizes)
Scoreboard to keep track of the SOS’s for each player
Undo
Player 1 goes first
Assign own name
Help/Instructions

On top of initial feature set I added:

Games won: the ability to keep track of how many games were won by each player until [...]

I now have a production version of my SOS program, with mainly just essential functionality.  That is I only have one board size to use, the ability to change the player names, start a new game with the same board size, exit, display instructions and about information, and of course play an entire game from start [...]

A grid of nxn squares (where n>=3) is drawn in the playing area.  The first player places an S or an O into one of the squares upon the board, at which point it is then the second players turn.  The second player has the option of placing an S or an O in an [...]

I am very happy with my progress so far.  Especially how I have been able to overcome obstacles along the way, in order to get to the point in my program that I am at now.  Last night I was up until 1AM working on getting some of the underlying logic to work with the GUI [...]

I was casually working on my SOS program this week, until last night, when I shifted into over-drive and was determined to get a decent graphical user interface (GUI) to display the different views going.   I actually got so caught up in it that I was up until 1AM, but I don’t mind.
I know, creating a GUI is [...]