Round toe

by thecoolestnerdguys

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.15

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.96

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.46

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.74

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.30

Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.94

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★48%

My first LD entry!

A tic-tac-toe clone (kind of), except that you only get O's, so, you have to memorize where you placed your stuff.

Features:

* Beautifully crappy AI!

* Circles!

* No violence!

* Relaxing background music!

* Black background (energy saver!).

* 2 player mode!

* Sinewave movements!

* 3 colors graphics!

* made in 7 hours!

EDIT: For some reason, it doesn't seems to work on Firefox. Should work on Webkit browsers(Chrome, Opera, Safari) tho.

Comments22

Pickle17 Dec 2013, 00:24

The GUI controls are hard to use. When I click one player, it registers as placing a circle down. And when I win, the screen flashes "You win" then back the the starting menu. Also the AI seems to always make the same choices and doesn't even try to stop me from winning. But anyway, interesting spin on the tictactoe game.

jsjwooowooo17 Dec 2013, 19:55

Had some GUI problems as well, but I like the idea!

TheSnide18 Dec 2013, 09:54

Hmmm.. I cannot click on the "One Player" or "Two player" buttons in FF 26 (works in Chrome).

Very nice minimal game :)

Lyje18 Dec 2013, 14:07

Interesting idea, but as others said clicking one player places your first circle. So you've not got many options!

lasagnegames18 Dec 2013, 14:14

Nice and chilled out gaming, quite enjoyable as a tic-tac-toe clone. One small note, you might need to set the mouse.down event to false after the player clicks to start the game, every time I already had a piece placed if you get my meaning. Good work!

Pixelfan Games18 Dec 2013, 14:22

Music looks nice, but i agree to others about clicking 1 player. It plays your first circle there every time and that's little frustrating.

Thecoolestnerdguysauthor18 Dec 2013, 14:35

@Pickle: Hey, thanks for playing! I've just fixed that annoying bug! Yeah, the AI is pretty dumb, really.

@jsjwooowooo: I've fixed that GUI bug you guys mentioned! Thanks!

@TheSnide: Yeah, it doesn't seems to work on FF for some reason. I'll see if I can fix that...

@Lyje: Thanks man! I've fixed that.

@lasagnegames: Thanks for poiting the solution out! I've totally spaced on that...

Thecoolestnerdguysauthor18 Dec 2013, 14:48

@Pixelfan Games: Glad you liked the music! That bug is now fixed.

Nikteddy9218 Dec 2013, 15:30

Evergreen :D

jdpalmer18 Dec 2013, 15:30

Interesting idea. The memory aspect reminded me of the game Gobblet.

Thecoolestnerdguysauthor18 Dec 2013, 15:46

@jdpalmer: Thanks! I've never heard of that game. I'll take a look into that...

@Nikteddy92: What do you mean???

Alink18 Dec 2013, 15:50

Funny idea. I didn't thought that any innovation was possible while keeping the tic-tac-toe rules. Next step: invisible moves!

van noctar18 Dec 2013, 15:51

Tic tac toe is a classic game. And the two players have the same item. However your IA is excellent! And the graphic design is good.

sknoslo18 Dec 2013, 15:56

The AI could obviously use some improvement, but overall, a nice take on tic tac toe.

Thecoolestnerdguysauthor18 Dec 2013, 16:19

@Alink: Thanks! Yeah, I might include that in a post-compo version...

@van noctar: Thanks! Oh, BTW, the two players are intended to have the same item, I don't know if you get it XD

@sknoslo: Thanks! Yeah, the AI is indeed stupid.

jacklehamster18 Dec 2013, 17:51

Wow, you really made this in 72h? I'm impressed

Thecoolestnerdguysauthor18 Dec 2013, 18:08

@jacklehamster Really?! Well, guess what, I actually made this in under 7 hours. I spent all the rest of the 72h having bad game ideas and trashing them.

Atmospherium18 Dec 2013, 19:53

I really like your take on the theme, it definitely gives a unique feel to tic-tac-toe. I think you should develop this further and maybe do something similar to other games (Go, Connect 4, Checkers, etc...)

Sheepolution18 Dec 2013, 20:28

Lol

csanyk21 Dec 2013, 06:39

I got excited for a second when I saw the Conway's Game of Life "glider" in your screen shot, but it's just obfuscated tictactoe where the board state is misleadingly ambiguous? I think I'll pass.

xrm02 Jan 2014, 11:40

Nice tic-tac-toe variation

anvoz5 Jan 2014, 12:34

Really nice idea. Good take on the theme. You made a pretty cool features list :)