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7th May 2019
I'm now having issues with the Swap Letters Dialogue, in that if you drag all your letters onto the dialogue and hit the "Swap" button, for a split second you have no letters in your rack, and the computer goes "Hey, somebody won!!"
*sigh*
Everything else from the earlier todo-list is now todone, so I'm pretty confident that the game will be out at some point today! Just .. Those last little bits!!
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Finishing Touches..
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7th May 2019
I'm down to the last few items on the todo-list.
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.. Wasn't I down to the last few items on the todo-list, a few days ago!?
Hmm..
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RAWR!!
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6th May 2019
Little bugs all over, but definitely a productive day.
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Doing the Blanks
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6th May 2019
Right, today I need to figure out how to do the blanks.
I'll probably need to use an extra chunk of array to draw them separate from the rest of the board. Draw plain blanks, then plop letters on top. I might even make them Font-based, rather than Tile-based.
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Nearing Completion
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5th May 2019
*sigh* This really has been an effort to get everything into place!
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5th May 2019
Alan continues..You probably have read up on these things already, but just in case you weren't sure, a ''trie'' is not a ''tree'', it's its own thingViews 57, Upvotes 7
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5th May 2019
1. The "Swap Letters" dialogue. A secondary rack that pops up and lets you move letters into the Swap-Rack, before hitting the "Yep, swap!" button and having them be swapped, whilst you miss a turn.
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Bag of Bugs!
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4th May 2019
Having a really odd issue, right now, where computer players are sneakily gaining blank tiles, when..
A ) The computer player can't make a move.
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B ) There are no blank tiles in the bag.
They're just sneakily plucking blank tiles out of mid-air!
Baffling!
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4th May 2019
Alan asks..What's the general outline of your current approach? The general method is as such. 1. The AI randomly picks a spot on the board, and scans to check that a word will fit in the space provided. It looks for a space that will fit about 3 or 4 letters and will connect to at least one other tile on the board.Views 264, Upvotes 52
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Adding More Brain
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4th May 2019
The AI is selecting some nice placements, as well as some fairly decent words, but there are still "quirks" in the methodology.
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Scrabbling for Words
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3rd May 2019
Massive enhancements, tonight, as the Crossword Game's brain gets a little shove in the right direction.
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Eeking Closer
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3rd May 2019
The AI is now at least managing to play without murdering my laptop!
A quick rewrite of the WordList, and a little bit of learning a bit more of Javascript's abilities, and I've now got things streamlined a little more.
The next will be to add a bit more intelligence to the AI.
As you can see in the screenshot above, all four AI players seem to be fairly balanced, but aren't exactly scoring massively. That'll be the next task, now that things aren't insanely slow and, deadly to my ...
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3rd May 2019
I might need to rejig the way the WordList is held, to make AL's job a little bit easier.
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Still At It!!
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2nd May 2019
Crikey, this ain't easy!
But AL's slowly getting "better", in a "Not exactly more intelligent, but at least not murdering my fan!" sort of way.
I need to get him to play with his letters a little better, though. He currently plonks tiny little 2-letter words down, when his rack has a really obvious word in it.
.. But.. Yeah, getting there!!
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More Crossword Work
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2nd May 2019
AL's getting slightly better, but is currently only attempting about 2 word placements per frame.
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