The code is open source so if you have interest it would be somewhat straight forward to make the UI show different colors, although there is no output format for anything other than GBDK at the moment.
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When trying to upload this via Sideload in my https://play.date account it complains that “The buildNumber value in pdxinfo must be an integer”
If you do read the notes, you can organize them before shredding and deduce which of the notes you don’t need. It was going to be a bigger part of the game originally where there would be only one correct note and you’d have to find it to move to the next pile, but I didn’t end up having enough time to write enough notes for that to be more fun.
I know, I wanted to add so much more but ran out of time ;-;
You can start over pretty quickly (other than the tutorial note which I’ll probably release an update soon to skip after the first time) and trying to see the comments on every note would take a bit of time to do XD
An infinite mode where more papers drop down would be pretty easy to do, I’ll just have to come up with a random text generator.
I would love to make the pages look prettier, introduce some custom designs for types of pages, make the background have some visual flare, background music, etc. Ended up only having about 10 hours of free time though really made this a crunch haha.
Stumbled across Fuego and specifically the simple players, which all work based on one move analysis which meant it was feasible to implement on a Playdate, so that’s I did!
It’s very bad, but I kind of like crushing it after losing in an online game against a real human haha.
I haven’t used GB Studio very much, but I don’t think it has a way to import the hexadecimal format that this outputs.
I could theoretically implement a way to export to JPEG, but if you want a JPEG it’s probably easier to use just about any other fully featured image editing tool.
I could see some use for backgrounds, but Tiled works well and is still maintained.
This is really just intended to support GBDK because the only tool recommended for generating the kind of byte code you need for GBDK sprites hasn’t been updated for literal decades.
Even on a 9x9 board there is a mind bogglingly large number of variations that a board can be in.
https://senseis.xmp.net/?NumberOfPossibleGoGames
Even if you tried to narrow that down by eliminating mirrored/rotated positions it would be far too large.
Literature on Go AIs is actually pretty sparse.
I could have it look for a couple of josekis though 🤔 All I’ve thought of is to find the group with the least liberties and surround it. It’d be a very, very simple bot to say the least 😂
Glad you like it!
Any other features you’d like? I want to have a single player feature, maybe like a joseki practice mode, or if there’s enough interest in a paid version (which there clearly is some, thank you very much BTW 🥰), I could look into whether or not the Playdate could handle a 9x9 Go AI. Probably wouldn’t be very hard to beat though if it’s even possible to run something that actually makes non-random moves 😂