Chess

KingPrawnVindaloo · Post by **KingPrawnVindaloo** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:13 pm

Just a quick first post; putting together a little chess game, thought you might like a screenshot.

clicky clicky:

Progress -

AI - done - different difficulty levels - currently plays itself.
Front End - done
Pieces / Board - first draft done
Hand animations - nearly done - some are a bit rough

Just need tie in the player controls and hand animations to picking up the pieces etc and then you can test. More as it happens![/url]

Ogre r0x0r! ahem.

Post by **:wumpus:** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:18 pm

Nice, when can we play it?

Post by **haffax** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:35 pm

Wow, this looks really nice.

The stones don't look like drafts at all.

Post by **Kencho** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:43 pm

Nice one!

muppet · Post by **muppet** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:45 pm

Nice work. Good job!

Sarev0k · Post by **Sarev0k** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:57 pm

Kickass! Will the hands pick up and move the pices for you?

Sputnick · Post by **Sputnick** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:04 pm

Very nice.
Congratulations.

- Sput

eugen · Post by **eugen** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:30 pm

nice one!

are the hands moving around?

KingPrawnVindaloo · Post by **KingPrawnVindaloo** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:41 pm

Not yet - doing that today. Just finished exporting the animations into a little test program and now I'm tying them into the main app.

Will post updates as and when..

KingPrawnVindaloo · Post by **KingPrawnVindaloo** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:43 pm

Sorry - how rude - thanks for all your comments. It'll be nice to give something back to the community - source, models etc will all be released when it's done, for other noobies like me to pick apart and laugh at.

charlie · Post by **charlie** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:06 pm

The hands are a great idea. I really like the shot

Great work

R2109 · Post by **R2109** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:27 pm

Nice Game.
And the reflections ... good.

amlug · Post by **amlug** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:49 pm

The other are right:
It's nice!

Ralph

Kezzer · Post by **Kezzer** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:25 pm

Make a nice table for it to go on too

Looks awesome though

eugen · Post by **eugen** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 10:35 pm

u can make them shake hands at the end...is a common gesture in the chess business

KingPrawnVindaloo · Post by **KingPrawnVindaloo** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:15 pm

Update - Got the first animation routines in:

[img=http://img257.echo.cx/img257/4324/chess ... 3vm.th.png]

Needs a bit of tweaking, but pretty pleased with it so far - pretty slow progress - learning everything for the first time. Really impressed with Ogre though.

Eugen: I was thinking of a derogatory hand gesture for the loser as often seen on the football terraces

walaber · Post by **walaber** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:36 am

looks really impressive so far!! the fact that you got the computer AI working before the player input is rare

look forward to trying it out!

Post by **jacmoe** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:48 pm

walaber wrote:the fact that you got the computer AI working before the player input is rare

The very nature of a chess game

RomiSoft · Post by **RomiSoft** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:37 pm

Nice, I am starting to use ogre as well for a chess game, which I must make for my education.
Which kind of AI-algoritme are you using? I think I must use MIN-MAX for it, but maybe it is better to use some other one?

KingPrawnVindaloo · Post by **KingPrawnVindaloo** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:52 pm

I didn't know too much about chess AI - there's a good series of articles on gamedev:

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/progra ... es/chess1/

In the last article in the series, there's a downloadable source code (in Java).

I can't take any credit for the AI in my game - I converted it from that original java source and the author will rightfully get the credit.