I really like this game, It was at movie theater I worked at, after work, while I was waiting for my co-workers to get out for a late night diner hit, I would be playing this game for close to an hour. Here is a tip you get rated, so play Encephalo Man first, if you beat him you get a high rating, then take out Colony, Drool man etc.
I was thinking that you played quite a few very unintuitive moves that were very impressive, when I read the description, lol What kind of AI did you write? Monte-carlo tree search or minimax/alpha-beta or something else?
A minmax / alpha-beta AI. The Ataxx AI is no slouch at higher difficulty levels. But given that modern systems have a huge CPU speed advantage (and even multiple cores), it's not *too* hard to write a program that can beat it (and run fast enough). There are some Othello arcade games that are especially strong - I think because they're using much better logic to score a board position.
I used to play this at Jr College in 91-93 in between classes in our Student Center Arcade section. Worth it.
I really like this game, It was at movie theater I worked at, after work, while I was waiting for my co-workers to get out for a late night diner hit, I would be playing this game for close to an hour. Here is a tip you get rated, so play Encephalo Man first, if you beat him you get a high rating, then take out Colony, Drool man etc.
I was thinking that you played quite a few very unintuitive moves that were very impressive, when I read the description, lol
What kind of AI did you write? Monte-carlo tree search or minimax/alpha-beta or something else?
A minmax / alpha-beta AI. The Ataxx AI is no slouch at higher difficulty levels. But given that modern systems have a huge CPU speed advantage (and even multiple cores), it's not *too* hard to write a program that can beat it (and run fast enough). There are some Othello arcade games that are especially strong - I think because they're using much better logic to score a board position.
You can play ataxx online on Pychess
so there is Japanese version of this game that actually has an ending? (I only know US version that loops infinitely)
Yes - the Japan version ends if you beat all the computer opponents
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great job defeating Gorgon and Cephaloman. Those two are tough nuts to crack.