Show HN: Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe on Angular and Firebase (mck-.github.io)

46 points by mck- 12y ago ↗ HN

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Awesome game!

I believe there was a post about this earlier that the game is solved[1]. Interesting game for those who don't know that, or who want to go through the exercise to figure out the correct strategy.

[1] https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/archives/604-Ultimate-T...

mck- 12y ago ↗

Hmm.. makes me wonder if things change is the first move is not allowed to be right in the center?

matchu 12y ago ↗

The variant that you can't be sent to a won board or a full board is not vulnerable to this technique, and, to my knowledge, hasn't been solved.

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfec...

rohamg 12y ago ↗

Sweet game! Nicely made.

th0114nd 12y ago ↗

Contrast seems too low on osx+chrome, or maybe its just poor eyesight on my part.

mck- 12y ago ↗

Thx for feedback -- just increased the contrast of the boards.. waiting for GH to update the page

conorgil145 12y ago ↗

I saw the post on HN a while back that introduced Ultimate T3. This is an awesome implementation of it. Well done!

I hadn't heard of Firebase before, but it sounds very interesting. How was your experience working with it?

mck- 12y ago ↗

Thanks :) Firebase is pretty neat, especially in combination with Angular's two-way binding; which essentially means a real-time app out-of-the-box .. without a backend!

So all you have is a static page :) which is why I could host it on Github pages

ninetax 12y ago ↗

This is amazing looking. I love your sense of design!

cbhl 12y ago ↗

Am I weird for expecting "online game" to match me up with a random person instead of having to send a URL to a friend?

mck- 12y ago ↗

Very good point -- I will try to implement that tomorrow :)

The link to friend was inspired from cubeslam.com

mck- 12y ago ↗

Implemented a random opponent matcher -- except the traffic has subsided heavily, so you might need to be patient :)

thomasfoster96 12y ago ↗

You do know some of us have work to do, don't you?

barnabask 12y ago ↗

Ultimate Tic tac toe, check. Angular, check. Firebase, check. GitHub, check. I cooked exactly this recipie a month ago: https://github.com/Barnabas/tictac9x.

I'm not complaining; delighted actually. This game is a perfectly natural combination of these technologies. I imagine this happens all the time. Good job.

percentcer 12y ago ↗

I think you're undervaluing the aesthetics of this one.

namikaze 12y ago ↗

Not relevant to the topic but my Midori browser on Ubuntu says:

Error - http://mck-.github.io/T3

The page 'http://mck-.github.io/T3' couldn't be loaded.

Cannot resolve hostname (mck-.github.io)

Works fine on Firefox! Did Midori's URL parser mangle the path?

lawl 12y ago ↗

Firefox 22 on linux on my box chokes on the URL too. Chromium works here. Weird.

diaz 12y ago ↗

Firefox 23 on arch linux for me, same problem I think.

Just tested with chromium, works fine.

Could it be somekind of hidden option in the browser?

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