Devlog #2

So you can now actually play the game. It only took me 8 hours.

What I added

Placing stones

The most basic gameplay mechanic of Gomuku and Go. When you click on a place you can place a stone (in Gomuku and Go it’s where the lines intersect), a stone appears according which player’s turn it currently is.

Winning

When you get 5 in a row, you win. The game window closes instantly, which isn’t really good, but I couldn’t find a way to display a gameover message (at least not yet)

Struggles

Misalignment

For a long time, the rendering script was somehow broken and stones would display in the incorrect location. I solved it by manually moving the stones 45 pixels up and left.

Gameover detection

This took me so long. For the longest time, it seemed like the code was just not running. Then I asked AI because I literally did not know what to do, then the program just crashed on start. Then I asked AI again and it works now. Apparently it was because I used break and return prematurely, which lead to most of the squares not being detected.