Game Development Reference
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But while our Caesar cipher program here can encrypt messages that will keep them
secret from people who have to figure it out with pencil and paper, it won't keep it secret
from people who know how to get computers to process information for them. (Our brute
force mode proves this.) And there are other cryptographic ciphers that are so advanced that
nobody knows how to decrypt the secret messages they make. (Except for the people with
the key of course!)
A large part of figuring out how to write a program is figuring out how to represent the
information you want to manipulate as numbers. I hope this chapter has especially shown
you how this can be done. The next chapter will present our final game, Reversi (also
known as Othello). The AI that plays this game will be much more advanced than the AI
that played Tic Tac Toe in chapter 9. In fact, the AI is so good, that you'll find that most of
the time you will be unable to beat it!
