On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Govinda<govinda.webdnat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> PHP is a great language. You can do a lot of things with him, even >> have fun with it. >> My idea is to make a simple game where your have to write some AI to >> beat the other players AI >> >> The idea, as simple as it looks, is really difficult to implement >> specially about security >> >> so, do you like me idea? >> >> -- Martin Scotta >> > > > sorry if this is getting OT: > > Martin, I wrote a really fun and charming remake of a great that 2 others > wrote in the 1980's. My version has really fun graphics and sounds. I used > visual basic as that is what I had then on my then windows laptop, without > internet, literally in the mountains in north India where we only had > electricity a couple hours per day, let alone no internet. It is a simple > but very fun strategy game with more depth than say checkers (by far!), but > less complex/daunting than say chess. It has 2-player option, but writing > the AI for the various levels of difficulty when playing against the > computer was the most challenging and fun part of the project. I often > thought of taking it the next step and doing just what you propose here. I > don't know what is LISP, but I assume that post meant to say that PHP is not > the best language for this. (?) I say, "so?" If you know PHP, (and what, > AJAX to go with it?) then you can do it, and HAVE FUN, regardless that it > is very inefficient way to do it. > For myself I can't afford to take time for that much programming fun, just > now.. but let me know in case you (or anyone) would like a copy of that > game.. it may give you some ideas, not to mention it is perfect fun for > unwinding at the end of a day of coding. Takes 5 minutes to play. The > expert level is not at all easy to beat! ;-) > (for windows 98-->Vista. Windows-7 I don't know... I use Mac when I have > a choice.) > > -Govinda >
That's the idea. You will have fun programming the AI and looking how it "match" between others. I'd like to see your game, do you still have it? -- Martin Scotta -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
