A Windows XP Era Inspired Tic-Tac-Toe Game. Implemented in Python using Tkinter, Travel Back to 2004!
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🖥️ Windows XP was the first exposure to a computer I ever got to experience.
- At the young age of 3, I spent untold hours playing games on the computer at my grandma's house.
- It was in these simple inbuilt games and internet explorer that I became interested in technology.
🔍 This Project's goal was to create a game I could have played as a child, while also helping devolp my skills as a coder.
- It refined my knowledge of implementing GUI's using Tkinter.
- It also was just a fun coding project in Python.
🪟 My major priority in the development of this project was to copy the aesthetic and feel of the built-in applications that ran on Windows XP.
- This meant gray buttons, recessed text, and pop-up windows for completions.
- The window size is locked at 500x500 pixels as well, since MineSweeper was unable to be resized.
- I also implemented a color picker for the player, using a 16-color limit with an open pallette on the screen.
- This was inspired by early paint programs I would play with.
🐍 This code was written in Python.
- This did lead to some problems getting it to run on my Windows XP Virtual Machine.
- This was simply due to the age of Windows XP, which stopped getting official support on April 8, 2014.
- I ended up having to install a user generated Python interpreter to get it to run in Windows XP, found on this old reddit thread:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3tgi0t/python_35_x86_on_windows_xp/
- You will need to download and install additional .dll files for full compatibility, so please be patient if you want to run it on XP.
- Of course, you can simply run this on your mordern OS without issue! [🙂]
🤖 The AI for the game uses the Minimax Algorithm.
- This means the the AI attemps to minimize the loss via a worst case scenario.
- Since Tic-Tac-Toe is a fairly simple game with only 9 possible moves, I have given the AI the data set of all 8 possible winning combinations.
- It tries to choose moves based on boxes that it can link to win the game.
- If the AI is chosen to go first in a single-player game, it will choose a box randomly and try to build a win based on combinations that include this box.
- Here is a link to more information about the minimax algorithm: