Thread: Starting games - books? api?

I could dig up the source if you're interested. I played your tic tac toe game today at school, and the computer didn't win once... Not that that should happen, but I shouldn't win every time on my third piece.

My very first tic-tac-toe game I made had a pretty decent AI. In fact the AI could even win sometimes. My last variation of a tic-tac-toe game, dynamic toe (you could play on a grid from 3x3 to 9x9), doesn't have so great of an AI, though. The game was pretty easy for me to make, but it's still a little bit more tricky than you might think.

OpenGl has a free book that is available online. It is called the red book and is available from amazon. I have also found it online but I am not sure if it is a legal distribution.
There are also some tutorials at http://nehe.gamedev.net/ they look decent but I havn't really done anything with them yet.

err I can't edit my previous post but let me rephrase my first sentence
it should be "OpenGl has a big book about it" I talk about the possible legitimacy of an online book later on. Man I need to wake up.

My very first tic-tac-toe game I made had a pretty decent AI. In fact the AI could even win sometimes. My last variation of a tic-tac-toe game, dynamic toe (you could play on a grid from 3x3 to 9x9), doesn't have so great of an AI, though. The game was pretty easy for me to make, but it's still a little bit more tricky than you might think.

9x9 grid?! how would that work? would you still have to only get 3 in a row or 9?

you should try 3D tic-tac-toe - adds another dimension to the game (literaly)

9x9 grid?! how would that work? would you still have to only get 3 in a row or 9?

Yeah, it goes 9 in a row for a 9x9 grid. It's pretty lame with a grid that big. I'd have to say the funnest is either 4x4 or 5x5.

As for 3D tic-tac-toe, maybe later on but not right now. I have too many other projects as is.