By: Phillip Sdao Erin Nelson Eric Plulik Shaun Slamka

 Introduction  This project is an expansion of a board game for the Android  It is designed to be a puzzle game made after the game ‘Go’  This 10 week project includes  Planning and pre- programming  Puzzle Creator application  Level Selection  Graphic Polish

  The game of Go is a thousand year old thought to have originated in China.  It is a game of strategy played by both farmers and peasants; and Lords and the upper-class  The game hit its stride of popularity when it traveled to Japan.  Today it is still very popular in eastern nations, and can be compared to the popularity of chess in the western hemisphere. Game History

 How it is played  The game is played on a 9x9, 13x13, or 19x19 wooden board.  Beads are placed one by one on any intersection of the board, including corners and sides.  The game is played until both agree that no more points can be gained by ether player.

  The game is won by whoever has the most amount of points.  Points are gained in 3 ways.  By capturing an enemy piece  By having a bead on the board  By having territory that the opponent has agreed he/she cannot capture. Points

 Liberties  Each pieces has “Liberties” that represent each line coming from the spot a bead occupies.  When a line is touching a spot occupied by an opposing bead, that line is no longer considered a Liberty.  When a bead has no more Liberties it is captured and taken off the board. This then becomes a point for the enemy player

  When two or more beads are touching they are considered a group  A group shares its liberties.  This means a group cannot be captured unless the entire group touches no open spots.  When a bead or group has only one liberty it is considered to be in Atari.  When a pro is playing a newcomer it is considered polite to say Atari whenever a group or piece is put into Atari. Groups and Atari

 Seki  Seki is when it is unfavorable for ether player to advance  In this case each player is only awarded points for each piece in that placed and is not awarded points for territory

 Formations  During the game Formations occur, which are the basis for the Puzzle portion of this Game.  Some formations are famous such as the stairway, and the net shown to the right.  In both formations black cannot escape.

 Puzzles  Because these formations go from extremely simple to extremely complex, the idea for making puzzles out of completing small formations favorably exist.  In these puzzles a player makes a move, and the computer makes a response, completing all the correct responses gives the player his victory.

  Like stated before the project expanded on a crude game that displayed a single puzzle that could be worked through.  A player could place a bead, confirm placement and receive a response.  When the correct inputs were made, A victory alert was made and the player was thrown back to the main Menu. Overview of Project

  The Pre-Planning stage is a stage in the project where we decided on the workflow, and made time estimates, and deadlines for parts of the Game.  These stages include making a level select, an Level creator, and polishing up the design itself. Pre-Planing Stage

 Difficultly Select Method  When developing the difficulty select I used an XML that allows you to select the difficulty you want to play which can be accessed from the main menu.  Once you choose the difficulty you want the button takes you those puzzles that are in that difficulty.  Each puzzle within the corresponding difficulty's is different.  The screen for the different levels uses a background that fits with the game itself and uses images that serves as buttons that allow to you go each puzzle.  This setup is reusable while maintain its appeal to the user.

 Why we choose this setup  We choose this method of setting up the difficulty select because it’s the most efficient system we’ve seen used.  The most popular game at the moment that uses this set up is angry birds and its very appealing to the users based upon sales and downloads.  It provides a great template which is very diverse and easy to use. Applications that look appealing and have great functionality make a product more appealing.  Another benefit of this setup is it’s expandability and reusability on the programming end.

 Expandability  Like we previously mentioned on the last side the setup we used is very open to improving or adding more content  It provides enough space to add more content which we plan to do in the paid version of the application  With said space there is room for more functions such as showing the full content of the app however they would be greyed out in the free version.  With that being said with additional content it will still be appealing to the user.

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 Level Creator  The Go Puzzle application reads XML in order to form the puzzle. Therefore in order to reduce human error, and increase efficiency a Level creator was made.  The level creator allows the maker to predict the moves a player will make and then provide a response. The response also holds the properties that decide whether or not it is a victory or a dead end for the player.

  In order to create a puzzle a person first starts the application.  That person then clicks buttons to place pieces in the setup that the board should take at the start of a puzzle.  The person then makes predicted player moves, and the AI responses for them, until all reasonable moves have been predicted.  Finally the person selects save and the puzzle is saved to an XML file. Level Creator Work- Flow

 Graphic Polish  At the start of the Project the application had nearly no polish.  A wood design was used for the background and buttons and increased aesthetic feel for the game.

 Before and After

  This 10 week project has done many things for this application.  It has expanded its functionality and has easy to use content creation.  With some tweaking for the demo and full versions it will be ready for the android market Conclusion