WDI-Project-0

Installation Instructions:

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Implemented Features:

• Player vs Player
• Game Over Animations and Restart
• Player vs AI (difficulty: 'easy')
• AI solution tree compiled[1]
• Player vs AI (difficulty: 'impossible') [1]
• Board modelled in javascript using a 2D array

[1] Not enabled

Code Structure:

• App Object
  • Main object
  • Responsible for almost all game functions and test cases
  • Implements game state checking with optimization
• AI Object
  • Used in conjunction with App Object when AI is enabled
  • Separated from main object to reduce coupling
  • Responsible for:
    • Calculating available moves
    • Creating solution tree with each node representing a theoretical game situation
    • Analysing solution tree - bubbling results up to the root node

Hurdles

• Stack overflows (as a result of jQuery calls during recursion)
• Delays in HTML rendering

What's next

• AI
  • Getting full tree lookup working
  • Limit tree lookup depth to be used as a difficulty level
• CSS styling which wasn't given any attention until day of presentation...
• Clean up code (there were a few hacks introduced in the later stages)