CSE231 Honor Project

see a working version of gomoku

pygame manual download

download slides

sample code

template to start with

how to draw a line

check point #1(Nov. 2): Get familiar with pygame and draw Gomoku board

• use pygame.draw.line, see manual.
• use loop
• choose your own color scheme
• put it in to a function, no input & output e.g. def draw_board()

check point #2(Nov. 9): draw board with pieces according to the 2-dimensional list

• use 2-dimensional list to represent board.
• 1: black piece, 2: white piece, 0: empty
• use function

check point #3(Nov. 16): keyboard interation: control cursor using keyboard

• draw a cursor.
• move cursor and place pieces, using keyboard[how to input with keyboard]
• follow the program flow on the lecture slides.

check point #4(Nov. 22): Test winning

• after a piece is placed, test whether current play wins the game
• 5 pieces in a row, vertically, horizontally, diagnoally.

put everything together, you program by Nov 22 should do the following things.

1. draw a borard which has 15 x 15 cross points. Represent the board by using a 2-dimensional list
2. draw a cursor that can be control by keyboard.
3. after a piece is placed, test whether this is a winning move(5 pieces in a row)
4. update board list
5. redraw board and piece based on current board list

check point #final: simple AI

• make simple AI so your program can do easy defense and attack
• see slides for details