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gus_massa
I like it. The green highlighting of the active subboard is too subtle and sometimes I miss it. Another option is to flash the active subboard when the players try to use another subboard.
KennyCason
Yeah, I uploaded originally without the highlighting, but I kept getting lost as well haha
Falling3
Nice... it'd be really cool to get an AI to play against as well.
KennyCason
I only had about 2-3 hours to work on it. :) But I agree it would be fun to add. I'll repost if I add AI in the future.
Falling3
Oh yea, definitely not complaining.
mbillie1
Doing the AI would be fun... it seems like one of those cases where Haskell/Clojure could provide a very elegant solution.
KennyCason
Love me some haskell. been playing with it for the past month as well. Have a mostly functioning BEP NN on my github. though for a problem like this AI would be simple :)
mbillie1
It'd be one of those things that's 40 lines of Java, 15 lines of Ruby, 2 lines of Haskell... :) if you do it, post it! I'll hack on it tomorrow with my Haskell guru/mentor (I am not strong in functional languages yet)
KennyCason
Haha it would be a fun haskell algorithm to write:)
atjoslin
Now to make a multiplayer version... I would use Firebase and Angular probably. Unfortunately I don't feel like staying up all night on a project tonight :-p
mbillie1
I was messing with this the last few hours... beat me to it :) well done! What'd you use?
KennyCason
Cool:) just used JQuery and canvas. I built all the draw functions myself just to get more familiar with HTML5
[dead] moneyrich
Now I understand what he means when he said you pick where the next player goes; the highlight is good. Very nice. thx
dreen
thats pretty cool

edit: oops, stuck http://i.imgur.com/nTOJq1F.png

KennyCason
All software is accepted as is.. Etc etc haha jk thanks! I'll check what happened!
millzlane
I just played out this scenario, at this point player O must select any empty space.
KennyCason
Thanks. I thought that was supposed to happen. Perhaps it was confusing because I didn't highlight all the squares:)
dreen
This can happen in various scenarios, basically giving the player a choice of any empty space on the scree. I consider that a fair rule.
af3
don't have time to play, contributing to LLVM...
Sami_Lehtinen
If I would be unemployed, I would create ultimate 3D tic tac toe for hardcore players.
KennyCason
Step 1: quit job Step 2: create ultimate 3d tic tac toe
ramki
http://i.imgur.com/QuPvQyF.png this is the bug i found with this game, how x can win, when I(in blue) scored 4 before x reaches 3
redthrowaway
The goal is not to win the most boards, but to complete 3 in a row on the large board by winning the small boards. If you're aware of that, I'm not sure what you're claiming the bug is. Could you clarify?
bdirgo
X got three in a row
KennyCason
Fixed random mouse offset bug & whenever all tile become playable, they are all highlighted. With the exception of the start state (As I think it looks better white)
sold
First turn should belong to X not O.
KennyCason
fortunately that is very easy to fix, done.
Kiro
It's fun to see that whenever a game concept reaches the front page there are at least 10 different implementations done within hours. Good job.
KennyCason
Thanks, I woke up around lunch and saw the post and was like, well, I guess I know what I'm doing today. Honestly I only originally planned on working on my "color pencil" line drawing. haha
gklitt
Nice job Kenny! We should play sometime.
KennyCason
Sure! let me get the multi-player and AI-Complete version done, or we could bust out the marker board/paper :)
christiangenco
Ahh damn, that was going to be what my fork of your project was going to do.

I'll just leave you to it, then :p

KennyCason
Well, if you want, do the multi-player part, i'm more interested in the AI, doing a quck min-max AI solution
deletes
Too bad the first player always wins.
sigkill
Fwiw I found this one better and it has a rudimentary AI too.

(not mine)

http://joeyrobert.org/projects/ultimatetictactoe/

KennyCason
Cool. I'll add AI mine to mine later. It was a quick two hour hack. Thanks for the link to another one. I'll see what they did for AI. Though I'll probably employ a simple alpha-beta pruning alg
joeyrobert
Thanks for the plug. I too hacked it out in a couple of hours after reading the article.
rschmitty
Hah, that was the first thing I thought about when I read the article yesterday. Then I checked out ultimatetictactoe.com and found it was registered the same day and I got sad :(
DanBC
I'd love to see an HN competition of AIs learning and playing UltimateTicTacToe.
KennyCason
I'm inclined to say there are already a few simple AIs that play perfectly, so it would likel not be that exciting :/
jrpt
This is cool.