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From: "Martin Keates" <martin@jabadaw.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ftp ok and games uploaded
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:46:15 -0000
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> Nice games Martin.  Pretty damn good for first projects i'd say.

Cheers.

> The AI in connect four seems to take ageeees but I suppose it does have a
> big lookup table to traverse.

Actually I think you get really fast moves when it uses the look-up table (e.g.
the
first half dozen or so on hard vs. hard) but it's doing look ahead and rules
based
searches for other positions and that takes the time. Connect 4 is a complex AI
problem... I certainly couldn't have written it from scratch.

> Hope to see more surreal concepts like banjo space invaders in your next
> games.
>
> What are you working on now?

Firstly some basic 3D stuff - I'll see what works but I'm looking at LOD (for
geometry and textures) and portals/culling/HSR (hopefully in a unified structure
of some sort).

Then banjos will probably feature again in "Duke Folk'em". And maybe morris
dancers. Or something. :)

Martin.