Board Games in Small Basic

Question

1. Has anyone built the game of Reversi with a computer opponent using small basic.

2. In constructing a simple board game, what is the diff between using a button, a drawn cell, or a rectangle. Does one offer better mouse control, image control etc?

Answer 1

Buttons are easier in general to hook up the click event. However changing the button colour or image is harder (can be done, but either needs extensions or careful coding to not have flicker or slow with lots of clicks and changes).  For Reversi - you will want to do a lot of redrawing.

Using the mouse coordinates on a MouseClick is the other way.  The event hook up is done by the mouse coordinates, which on a grid board game isn't too hard.  So I would go this way, probably using some 2D arrays to store the black/white state of cells and any other cell related data.  You can then use drawing or shapes (images) to display the grid.

The hardest part will be the AI for the computer turn, so I would start with the basic graphics, then based on selected cells do all the reversing (HINT the stack object will be useful for this), checking for a valid go, checking for a winner etc.  Finally work on computer playing turns.

Answer 2

Thanks for the very quick response.

Answer 3

This is not a Reversi but Tic-tac-toe, very tiny board game.  I hope these will be your help.

Early version: http://smallbasic.com/program/?JKB381

Late version: http://smallbasic.com/program/?LBW762-3

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Nonki Takahashi

Answer 4

Thanks Nonki. I have studied your program LBW762-3 and think it is very good.