Hello

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 05:34:21PM +0100, Torsten Grote wrote:
> Michal 'vorner' Vaner said the following on 01/12/2008 11:13 AM:
> > And, it should be noted each game needs a description of
> > it's own, how it is saved, right?
> 
> Could you please elaborate a little bit more on this?

I was somehow mistaken by the missing saving in tictactoe. The saved
game looked like it is "from nowhere".

> > Terminating:
> > It should be specified, what exactly happens, when the other side just
> > changes to unavailable (lost connection, probably).
> 
> What happens when the other side changes to unavailable is defined, but
> not in terms of connection losses. They are a problem and I'm not sure
> how to handle these.
> If the game was not canceled, the client should be able to reconnect and
> play. If the client crashes, this is not possible, but the other player
> could save the game it is of the complete knowledge kind.

Hm, did I read it too fast and missed it somewhere, or is there only the
think that a client should terminate the game before disconnection?

> >> http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~tgrote/xep/tictactoe.html
> > 
> > Could it allow playing on any-sized plan (possibly infinite too) and
> > have the length of winning strike & starting player negotiated?
> 
> Well it could, but it doesn't ;)
> But it there are several variants of Tic Tac Toe which could be added as
> tictactoe#variant in the future.

Well, the "variants" differ (if I omit the things like 3D, more than 2
players) only in the sizes and I guess a client does not much differ for
them. I would rather like to see the numbers negotiated than have
variants like:
20x20-5
40x40-5
and so on.

(I get this is the first version, but I think a XEP for 3x3-3 variant
and another XEP for other variants is somehow a waste, so it would be
nice to have it possible in future in the protocol. Not that every
client would have to understand all the variants.)

> > Besides, it probably should be noted, how the game is saved.
> 
> Saving is not yet supported by this XEP. I don't think that saving a
> game of Tic Tac Toe is really necessary and it could be explicitly
> stated that it is not supported.

Could be a nice example, thought. And you do not need to define much
;-):

<tictactoe>
X_O
OOX
___
</tictactoe>

(Again, I know, it's first version.)

Have a nice day

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Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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