I have edited and reuploaded the Basic Game of Chaos after receiving some feedback. I hope these changes make the game more appealing to more people. Here are...
As of this weekend, the current count of Axiom submissions is now 20. http://www.zillions-of-games.com/cgi- bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi/89453?theme=39 --...
The most recent one, Festival Climbers, does a very nice job of showing off Axiom's ability to play competatively in games with more than two players. I do...
... Thanks Keith & David, I think it also serves as an example of a fairly complex end of game condition (the end of game checking rivals the game itself in...
The conclusion reached on this is that both Axiom and Zillions can handle games with hidden information. My "Mine Stalker" game is an example that applies to...
... I was expecting some feedback from you regarding the opening sequence implementation I posted back in December. As you may recall, there was some...
Rich Hutnick pointed me to Microsofts's "XNA", a free software package targeted to game developers. See the following Wikipedia entry to learn more: ...
In a nutshell, I would like to try out Seirawan's chess variant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seirawan_chess It is Capablanca chess on an 8x8 board, but the...
... <richardhutnik@...> ... the ... the ... Use a piece attribute to keep track of whether or not the piece has previously been moved. When generating moves,...
Thanks for the reply... ... I am curious what the code looks like for dropping a piece in the original space (from the pool) and have it check whether or not...
... Sorry, no code, but... Take a look at Chess.zrf which comes with ZoG. Search for "never- moved?" (used for castling determination). The off board pieces...
... I could look at M. Winther's game Alternative chess, and possibly consider that. He manages to drag a piece off board onto a pawn space and force moves...
Would there be any limitation to running Axiom with Zillions 1.3? I think the answer is no because Zillions hands everything off to the engine and seeks a...
I know that plug-in support was expanded going from 1.2 to 1.3 (e.g. the ability to generate moves was added and that is critical to Axiom). I'm not aware of...
I've been developing an Axiom version of the game "Grim Reaper" (see http://www.boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/game:30994) It is a game that involves multiple...
The rules are here: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSiagochesssyste I would like to get the B, C, and M Classes ported in one version...
I gave it a try and I was not able to get Zillions 1.0 to upgrade to 1.3.1. The 1.0 install passed the test the 1.3.1 patch runs before trying to install....
... It's not hard to do and you don't have to downgrade your version of ZoG in order to accomplish that goal (which I don't recommend anyway). Download the...
Thank you very much Greg. I ran into some trouble saving the file then getting it to run the first time. I think it was related to the fact that clicking on...
What this move is supposed to do is, when a piece moves out from the first rank it is in, whether to capture or not, it is supposed to pull in piece $2 onto...
I uploaded the jewel case cover I made for my downloaded copy of Zillions 2.0. To print it, you can open it in MSPaint, select "Print Preview" then select...
... I have known about it. It provides a generic Chess GUI. The idea is that someone wanting to write a Chess program wouldn't have to go through the effort...
I just remembered that Andreas is a member of this group (Yahoo ID = andreas_kaufmann2000). So Andreas, if you're listening, please feel free to comment...
