[Kde-games-devel] bovo AI

[Aron Boström]

Great!

This week, I finally got some spare time besides my work and started
working on bringing your AI into bovo. I wanted to be able to switch
between the two at runtime. Unfortunately, I ran into a whole bunch of
GUI bugs, which I felt needed attention.

Ideally, I would like to replace the current gui with a model/view
based one, and allow for multiple AI engines (your AI engine as the
main engine as it plays like a human, and my engine as the one used
for "hint", as it is blow-your-brains-off fast).

But I have to face it, I have had very (extremely) little time over
the past year for bovo, and I don't think it will change, so I think
it is time for me to step down as maintainer of bovo. I simply don't
have the time it takes to actively maintain it -- and certainly not to
develop it.

Off course, I'm happy to contribute to bovo, but I think someone more
suited should take over maintainership.

Aron

2008/9/12 Pelladi Gabor <pelladigabor at gmail.com>:
> I like bovo but it's artificial intelligence was too easy for me. I
> had a project at the university where I have written an AI for this
> well-known game. That AI is much harder, but can be downscaled to
> ridiculously easy, and also makes more human-like moves.
> As I saw bovo was well-designed, and the AI engine was easily
> replaceable. I extended this capability a bit further, to be able to
> change the AI engine on a single line of the source code.
> I don't know if anyone is actively developing or maintaining bovo, so
> I'm posting this here. I'm attaching an svn diff that separates the AI
> implementation from it's interface, and contains Aron's original and
> my implementation in separate subdirectories.
> Currently the original implementation is active, to minimize
> regression potential. My stronger AI can be turned on in bovo/ai/ai.cc
> Please have a look at it, try it, and send me feedback.