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alewmoose

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Registered: 2015-01-07

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Console version of the 2048 game

Hi guys,

I'd like to intdroduce my version of the 2048 game.
It's ncurses-based, written in c.
Distinguishing features are animation and autosave.

I'm not an experienced programmer, so I would appreciate any feedback very much!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/2048term-git/
https://github.com/alewmoose/2048-in-terminal/

genEric

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Registered: 2013-09-26

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Re: Console version of the 2048 game

Nice. Thanks alewmoose...

(As additional info, In case you want to add to your Github page, it installed fine in OS X as well.)

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ShadowKyogre

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Re: Console version of the 2048 game

The animations are extremely fluid! One question though: When there's a game over, why does it not remove the game state when the user quits? Is this intended?

Also, forgot to mention that the installed binary conflicts with https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/2048.c/. You may want to mention that in the PKGBUILD or change the compiled binary name.

Last edited by ShadowKyogre (2015-01-08 05:40:27)

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alewmoose

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Registered: 2015-01-07

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Re: Console version of the 2048 game

genEric, thanks!

ShadowKyogre, yes, it's intended and corresponds to original game behavior.
I edited PKGBUILD, the binary name is "2048t" now.

Unia

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Registered: 2010-03-30

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Re: Console version of the 2048 game

Cool We had to write a graphical one (albeit in Java) for a university project.

If you feel like doing some more work (er.. if you feel like opening up a whole other can of worms ) you might want to look into autosolvers. The possilities are endless and it's great fun! See this SO post for a start.

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alewmoose

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Registered: 2015-01-07

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Re: Console version of the 2048 game

Thanks, Unia. I know nothing about AI, but maybe I'll try to figure something out

Unia

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Re: Console version of the 2048 game

It's not really AI per sé, just some fancy algorithms. I knew nothing about it when I started working on it (we chose to do it as an "extra", boy were we unprepared ) and ended up with something that somehow works, but somehow doesn't I did not have enough time left to properly debug everything, so we decided to roll with it as a demo.

There was one specific implementation in C that is really simple to understand, but incredibly smart at the same time: https://github.com/Naruil/2048-AI/blob/master/2048.c

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smiszym

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Registered: 2014-04-04

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Re: Console version of the 2048 game

Very nice game! And I like the sources as well, they're clean and simple.