A command line simulation of the Hex board game (Human vs AI)
Hex is a strategy board game for two players, B (black) and W (white), played on a hexagonal grid. Players alternate placing their colored pieces, on unoccupied spaces of the board. The goal is to make a continuous chain from their side of the board to the opposite. The first player to do so, wins.
More info on the Hex Game can be found here
Enter the make command while in the /HexGame/ directory
Type ./hex while in the game's directory
You can give the following arguments in the command line:
-n <size> : Sets the size of the board (default = 11).
-d <difficulty> : Sets the game difficulty (default = 1).
-b : Sets human as the black player (default = white).
-s : Enables the swap rule (default = disabled).
You can give the following commands at any point of the game:
• newgame [white|black [swapoff|swapon [size]]] : Starts a new game based on the parameters given.
• play <move> : User performs said <move> (format "L#" where L is a Capital Letter and # a Number).
• cont : The AI makes a move.
NOTE: At this stage, the AI is not properly functioning. This will be improved in future commits.
• suggest : The AI suggests a move.
• undo : Reverts back one move.
• level <difficulty> : Sets the difficulty level to <difficulty>.
• swap : If the swap rule is on, performs the swap move for the user.
• save <statefile> : Saves the current state of the game in the file named <statefile>.
• load <statefile> : Loads the gamee state saved in the file named <statefile>.
• showstate : Prints the current game state.
• quit : Quits the game.
- This is a first semester assignment (fourth and last one), by professor P.Stamatopoulos, for the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA. It was recommended for 2 people, but I dicided to take it on solo.