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<p><strong>Name:<span style=""> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Mudit Malpani</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Email Address: </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="mailto:cooldudemd.malpani@gmail.com">cooldudemd.malpani@gmail.com</a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Freenode IRC Nick: </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">mudit</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Location (City, Country and/or Time Zone): </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Jaipur, India</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Proposal Name:</strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Mancala Games </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Motivation for Proposal / Goal: </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></p>
<p>I am very much interested in making programmes in C++. I have been
programming in C++ since 5 years and have made many interesting games like
snake (human vs. comp), Othello, gobblet, Chess and many other projects. This
experience of mine in making AI of different games will help me to easily
complete the project.</p>
<p>Also I have a significant knowledge of functional programming (have been
using scheme for about a year) due to which I can make fast and efficient
programmes. This provides me an edge over other programmers.</p>
<p>Furthermore, I have been playing games like oware and kalah for long time
which motivated me to choose this project in GSoC. I also know nice strategies
of winning these games due to which I can easily make artificial intelligence for
the game.</p>
<p><strong>Implementation Details:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">I will
start my project by first analysing the codes of existing strategy kde games so
that I can get the style in which codes of kde are written.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Then I
will start building proper algorithm for each game and making its code which
will include:</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span>Making a 2-player game</p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span>Making 1-player game (i.e. incorporating AI in 2-p
game)</p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span>Adding special effects to the game like adding
additional graphics and sounds.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span>Providing extra features which will make the game more
attractive like changeable interface, allowing user to set time for each move
etc.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 2.25pt;">I will first complete one game (till 3<sup>rd</sup>
point) before proceeding to other and after completing all the games I will
concentrate on additional features.</p>
<p><strong>Tentative Timeline:</strong></p>
<p> Till 15 may: getting familiar with kde coding environment and learning
the basic rules and strategies of different mancala games (most of which I
know).</p>
<p>15-30 May: Completing Kalah and Owari games (which I know very well)</p>
<p>1-30 June: Completing all other games (5 days each). All the games have many
features in common so it will not take much time in making the codes for these
games after completing Kalah and Owari. </p>
<p>1-15 July: adding additional features to the games.</p>
<p>15-30 July: Reviewing the codes for any bugs and consulting my mentor for
further improvements.</p>
<p>If I could complete my project early I would like to make other nice
strategy games after taking advice from my mentor.</p>
<p>I will be busy in my exams till 21<sup>st</sup> April so I would try to
devote about 2 hrs per day on this project till then. After my exams I am
planning to work for 40-50 hrs. a week as I’ll be having vacations then. </p>
<p><strong>Do you have other obligations from late May to early August (school,
work, etc.)? :</strong></p>
<p>I am having absolutely no obligations from May to August as it will be my
vacations time so I’ll be free at that time. </p>
<p><strong>About Me (let us know who you are!):</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">I am
Mudit Malpani, an 18 year old student studying in IIT-Bombay pursuing B.Tech (1<sup>st</sup>
year) course in Computer Science and Engineering.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">I started
coding about 5 years ago ad since then I’ve made many projects in C++ as I have
mentioned above. I am also learning scheme from last one year.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">I love to
play strategy games due to which I selected this project for GSoC. It will be
really fun and challenging doing this project.</span></strong></p><p><br><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong>mudit malpani<br></p><p><br>
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