Questions tagged [board-game]
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How to code marking dead stones in Go board game. Getting user input outside of update
This is a follow-up question to coding capturing in Go. I have that successfully working. I am pretty sure that I am not reposting, this is a completely different question I have it just happens to be ...
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Blurry Board Game Node Images in Unity (UI & Sprite Issue)
I'm developing a board game in Unity and facing an issue with image clarity. The board consists of multiple nodes, each displaying a 480x600 px image. However, these images appear blurry and ...
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Protecting New Game Content Through NDA Contract Before Sending to a Manufacturer?
I'm a new independent board game designer and would like to send sample graphics of my game content to manufacturers for quotes to produce demo sets, and to scale up to full production after I market ...
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How to code Capturing in "Go" Board Game?
By following this series of N3k EN checkers tutorials,
I was able to adapt the process to my own 3d models from Blender to code the board game Go instead.
Here is the wikipedia article for the board ...
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How can I change checkers pieces to move only horizontally and vertically?
I am a beginner level programmer trying to learn Python. I could not figure out how to change the values so I can restrict the pieces of checkers from moving diagonally. I want them to be able to move ...
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How to separate player characters occupying the same board game space?
I'm trying to create a 2D "board game" type thing in Unity, and I would like each player to be visible within the same space.
The way I want to do that is by having it so when a player ...
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How to shift focus of RTS gameplay from manual dexterity to strategy? [closed]
I am doing an exercise where I have to make a board game where the win condition relates to area control. I decided to make a real-time game where players have to control certain key points at the end ...
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How do I store a branching board game path in python
I thought a fun way for my son and I to learn and improve our python programming skills respectively is to digitize one of his (and my and my mom's when we were his age) favorite board games, "...
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Internal representation of checkers board
I am creating a game of checkers using the but am struggling to find a good internal representation for the game. My initial thoughts were to store the game board in a 2d list, with 0=empty, 1=always ...
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How to move game pieces in checkers?
I have been creating a 3D Checkers board game via Unity.
So far, I have managed to create the board game, with its game pieces well positioned into their designated rows and tiles upon starting to ...
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Minimax implementation problem
it's my first time posting so apologies in advance if the format is weird. I'm developing a board game that's very similar to checkers/chess and I've faced some problems implementing the minimax/...
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How can I make a computer opponent for my board game?
I am trying to create a game, not exactly checkers, but the level of its interactivity is on par with checkers as opposed to something more complex (I think) like chess.
Anyway, according to my ...
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Minimax not blocking moves on board game
I have a minimax player for the gomoku game, connect 5. The minimax player does not block the moves when there is potentially 5 in a row or 4 in a row. I would appreciate if anyone can show me what I ...
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What should i use as a board for my game? [closed]
I'm a beginning programmer and i need to make a game. The rough idea revolves around fleets fighting in turn based battles while you control your factions resources and manpower.
The original concept ...
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Design constraints for games that the elderly (65+) get engaged with
I'm a newbie in game design and gaming in general (Tetris, board games, this sort of things). But have observed that the elderly got very much engaged with bubble shooter and solitaires (quite ...
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