Game Development Reference
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X scored 15 points. O scored 46 points.
You lost. The computer beat you by 31 points.
Do you want to play again? (yes or no)
no
As you can see, the AI was pretty good at beating me. To help the player out, we'll
program our game to provide hints. If the player types
'hints'
as their move, they can
toggle the hints mode on and off. When hints mode is on, all the possible moves the player
can make will show up on the board as
'.'
characters, like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
1 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
2 | | | | . | | . | | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
3 | | | | O | O | O | | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
4 | | | . | O | O | X | | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
5 | | | . | O | O | O | X | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
6 | | | | . | | . | | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
7 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | |
8 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
Reversi's Source Code
Reversi is a mammoth program compared to our previous games. It comes in over 300
lines long! (But don't worry, many of these lines are just comments or blank lines to space
out the code and make it more readable.) As always, you don't have to type in the program
