Checkers/chess minigame
by Edward · in Torque Game Engine · 06/26/2008 (8:15 am) · 6 replies
I have been looking into some features for my current project. I was wanting to create some entertainment areas. How would one best achieve creating like a chess or checkers minigame inside TGE.
for example a player sees a chess board on a table, he might click it, and it pops up a 2d gui with the chess/checker board, and a player can play that. Each position would be saved as well as win/loses vs a computer. Any suggestions. Anyone else done this, adding minigames into a full size game?
It would go will with my Colisuem and Racing minigames :) Dont you think?
for example a player sees a chess board on a table, he might click it, and it pops up a 2d gui with the chess/checker board, and a player can play that. Each position would be saved as well as win/loses vs a computer. Any suggestions. Anyone else done this, adding minigames into a full size game?
It would go will with my Colisuem and Racing minigames :) Dont you think?
About the author
I am working on my first large Game with a team of programmers and artists. I am a avid gamer and am the lead producer and director of Fantasci Hidden War. I have my first published game credit with Chariots as a Level Designer and Interior Artist.
#2
www.fantascihiddenwar.com
My Current Setup is Singleplayer, though we are evaluating multiplayer (but im doubt the ingame minigames would be multiplayer, at least originally, server considerations) Do you have any suggestions?
Does TGB have the capability to do these game in TGE, and then of course there is the programming of AI, surely there must be some simple checkers ai somewhere. hmm. points to consider.
06/26/2008 (11:10 am)
My project is Fantasci:Hidden War. i wanted to give the players some addition things to do while in the game. One of the suggestions was the minigames. Chess, Checkers, Tic Tac Toe are on my list of suggestions. www.fantascihiddenwar.com
My Current Setup is Singleplayer, though we are evaluating multiplayer (but im doubt the ingame minigames would be multiplayer, at least originally, server considerations) Do you have any suggestions?
Does TGB have the capability to do these game in TGE, and then of course there is the programming of AI, surely there must be some simple checkers ai somewhere. hmm. points to consider.
#3
06/26/2008 (12:27 pm)
Ok, i did find that there is a checkers game in TGB, anyone know where i can find a checkers AI? or is it in the TGB forums? So there can be a singleplayer game of said minigame. 
#4
06/26/2008 (2:15 pm)
Ive never seen mention of checkers AI on the GG site. You're best bet is googling / rolling your own.
#5
06/26/2008 (2:20 pm)
Yah, dont you think thats a bit wierd though? i did find a few possiblities in google. But seriously, for all the commonplace of checkers? Wouldnt that like be the holy grail of tutorials, or does no one consider singleplayer games a actual benifit? there are a dozen other things, you can make every other aspect of about, i saw 6 different games... but none seemed to be geared to singleplayer. I keep saying it AI. regardless of genre, it seems to be lacking.
#6
06/26/2008 (5:37 pm)
Well there is plenty of stuff available online for making chess ai, and checkers ai will likely operate with the same basic algorithm, just less complicated. Mini-max is a search algorithm that comes to mind. 
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but you'll have to wait for the next release of vSide to see it! ;)
one comment -
i'm not sure what your current project is,
but if it has more than two players you might want to think about how to make the minigame spectatable.
ie, so that a third or fourth player can watch the checkers, kibbitz, etc.
with a 2D pop-up ui that's a bit complex.