I've encountered a bug, using the client software. The game crashes consistently when confirming a move (clicking OK after selecting an action). It happens the...
Hope we can get together a game Friday 10/5. I'll probably be around at 4 EST and then for sure at 9 EST...<br><br>Status report on how the robots are coming...
I'm not sure how exactly the exe works but instead of "writing down" you should probably try "octi.exe > error.log" in msdos-prompt. The after the crash...
How best to incorporate the optional rules of Octi? One solution is to make the introduction of an option the equivalent of a turn in the game. For example, if...
Another way to go, is to allow certain rule changes, or moves that is connected to some challenge, for example playing a game of Octi for Kids, or some other ...
Next Saturday is the Octi robot tournament, which figures to be a bout between the two Charles's. We'll transcribe the games onto Octi on-line. Same for my...
I've been asked by an anonymous party to furnish a hint to the recent puzzles in photo example #11 & #12. <br><br>#11: In order to win in three moves, Red must...
Parenting Magazine (Nov, p.151) names Mouse Island "toy of the year" for ages 5-6. <br><br>I'm happy to take a lucky break now and then...<br><br>Don...
Looks like the robot tournament will get started around 11 AM EST this Saturday. The human Octi demonstration is slated for 1 PM, so there will probably be ...
Newgrange is expecting a power shutdown from its Boston utility company on Sunday, which will bring Octi on-line down for a bit.<br><br>This may delay posting...
Congratulations to Charles Sutton and Charles Chiou, whose robots fought valiantly in the First Annual Octi Robot Championship yesterday at Yale. Amid severe ...
Two people have now run into some graphics problems with the browser-based client: one could not see the bottom third of the screen for some reason.<br><br>Any...
Hi Peter!<br><br>I know that as of late this afternoon there were some technical problems with the program. I believe these have been resolved, but I don't ...
Hi, Peter. Charles is being (characteristically) diplomatic. Steve and I made a mistake in reading one of his bot's moves and suspended the game at lunch today...
Hi. Here's the game log of my bout with the bot. Playing first and thinking ahead 5 ply, the robot made a bold charge in the beginning and things went downhill...
Example photo #14 shows a recent game on-line. Red, with a commanding lead, has a chance to force the action and gradually overwhelme and overmatched Blue....
I finally got my act together and opened a yahoo! account...<br><br>Don, what you suggested is equvialent to introducing a variable of "number of moves so far"...
octi programmers,<br><br>What would be the most efficient data structures for representing the octi board?? I am trying to come up with something that will fit...
Hi,<br><br>There is no point of making really small data structure, because this will slow your program.<br>Also you don't need to save really a lot board ...
hi kassabovmar,<br><br>Thanks for the suggestions.<br><br>1. A player can conceivably have up to 2 superprongs, right? So instead of 4 bits in your scheme, you...
Hi Martin. I think you're right that squeezing every bit out of the board representation isn't worth the time or trouble. Note that your point applies to any...
Hi Chuck. If you don't mind my asking (and if I may ask a stupid question :-), why are you hashing game states? Is it simply to memoize the computation of the...
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