Mia's Dots & Boxes




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Made with:
GameMaker Studio
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Features:
     Developed for Windows 8 touch devices. Works just fine in Windows 10. 2 players only.
Story:
     This one is pretty simple. My daughter loves the Dots and Boxes game. So I made her one, and included X’s and O’s. Except I called it Hearts and Stars as those were the shapes I used and the name Tic-Tac-Toe is copyrighted.

Design:
     Of note in the design of this game is that I did not hard code the boards for the Dots and Boxes games. Instead, I created three base objects: a horizontal line, a vertical line, and a box. When a player selects a line it wiggles and collision detection increments a counter in the boxes it hits. When the counter in a box reaches four, which means all sides are claimed, then the current player is given ownership of that box. In this way I can rapidly create new boards of various sizes and even various static shapes. Or, I could even procedurally generate boards.


 

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