Number Scrabble/Pick 15/3-to-15 in Urbit

This is a Pick 15 game based on the tic-tac-toe for urbit

Features

• Network multiplayer.
• Board state printed in the console
• Structures in /=home=/sur and marks for updates
• Fixes an issue with removing the head of a queue using a custom library (%cola)
• Notifications for game invitation
• Uses queue instead of list to keep track of incoming and outgoing subscriptions
  • TODO: Research Gall/Hall to replace this
• Pending requests to play are queued and pulled after current game finishes.
• Styled text to print crosses and noughts on board, and game notifications

Local install

This might take some time to compile, seat tight!

cp app/pick15.hoon /path/to/your-urbit/home/app
cp -r mar/pick15 /path/to/your-urbit/home/mar
cp sur/pick15.hoon /path/to/your-urbit/home/sur
cp lib/cola.hoon /path/to/your-urbit/home/lib

Start playing!!

In your urbit's Dojo, run the command:

~your-urbit:dojo> |start %pick15

The list of commands are:

• '~ship-name': sends request to ~ship
  • Only if the prompt is | shall we play a game?
• '!': cancels the current game. (if any, unqueues next subscription)
• 'l': list current subscriptions (any time during the game)
  • 
• '9-1/1': stone ([1-9]) and board coordinates ([1-3/1-3])
  • Only if the prompt is | ~zod vs ~marzod | [number-row/col]
• 'Y': confirm/reject request to play [Y/N]
  • Only if the prompt is:
    • | ~zod wins! continue? (Y/N) |
    • | waiting for ~zod (!=quit) |

In Progress

• Refactor code
• Follow /=home=/gen/deco.hoon best-coding practices (deprecated)
• Follow code style
• Remove old three/four letter variable names
• Using Hoonian idioms

TODO

• Partial board re-paint on each move.
• Web frontend
• Single-player mode
• Send multple requests to multiple ships
• Don't block game waiting for a confirmation
• Cancel a specific request from the list of subscribers
• Write-up a blog post documenting the code

References

• https://github.com/joshuareagan/doc-drafts/blob/master/Hoon-Ch2-10.md
• https://urbit.org/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acTt4_IXYM