Checkers/Draughts Competition!

[callumjones]

I was more referring to cross platform apps in general, after a complaint was that Gorda's checkers couldn't be played on Windows.

[gorda001]

Since the competition obviously hasn't ended yet, I thought I'd use the opportunity to respond to vista's checkers :p

You can download the client here:
http://fileability.net/downloads/draughts2.zip

New:

• The entire app is now based on Core Animation. This means everything is animated :D
• This is very cool: The dock icon updates to reflect the actual board. So you can see the actual game progress just by looking at the dock

I'll upload the source in a few minutes. Video later today maybe.

EDIT: I've got a new version coming later today. Crowning seems to be broken in the above version :\ (it was working in the version before).

[Calamitie]

And if cross platform apps using Mono are anything like the mess that Java is, I'd rather it stay the way it is.

Yes they totally are and on all platforms - but Windows - a GUI application looks like it's running on a poorly-made Windows 95 low-graphics-safe-mode :push:

Console applications are fine though :D

If only there was a single GUI toolkit like wxWidgets or Gtk+. Oh, wait. :p

P.S. that strange Noodles shameless-promotion will be explained soon, really.

[gorda001]

Okay! I've made some further improvements and unless some major bugs come to light, this will be my final revision.

New:

• Fixed that bug with crowning (the pieces could move as kings but the crown wouldn't appear immediately)
• Pieces are now at the top when being moved
• If a player can't move or has no pieces, the other player is declared the winner in an alert
• Now shows possible moves (you still drag pieces but it shows where you can move them to)

Download App:
http://www.fileability.net/downloads/draughts3.zip

Download Source:
http://www.fileability.net/downloads...htsSource3.zip



Here's the dock icon during play showing the actual state of the board:


Here's a short video showing off mutliple takes and kings:
http://screencast.com/t/crExJbLh

[gorda001]

*bump*

It's now over a week after the deadline. Can we wrap this up? I don't think we're going to get any more entries (of course if we are then I'm happy to wait).