guiloku

Introduction

This is a very very bad amalgamation of the names 'Guile' and 'Gomoku' but I'm sticking with it. The idea is to build a gomoku-like game in guile in the process of learning to use guile

Gomoku

Gomoku is a strategy board game originating from Japan, where it is referred to as gomokunarabe.

You can read more on Wikipedia

Guiloku

Guiloku is an implementation of Gomoku in Guile

Dependencies

Guiloku depends on:

• Guile
• Sly

Installing and Running

1. Install GNU Guix - I recommend the binary installation
2. Clone Sly git clone git://dthompson.us/sly.git
3. Change directory into sly: cd /path/to/sly
4. Build and install Sly
   • Set up build environment: guix environment -l guix.scm
   • bootstrap build environment and configure: ./bootstrap && ./configure
   • Build sly: guix build -f guix.scm
   • Install sly: guix install -f guix.scm
5. Clone guiloku: git clone git@github.com:fredmanglis/guiloku.git
6. Change directory into guiloku: cd /path/to/guiloku/
7. Run guiloku guile -s guiloku.scm

Screenshots

Note: Annotations in red do not appear in actual screens

On launch:

2 moves in:

And a win whenever there are 5 consecutive stones:

Direction

The intention is to implement a simple game of Gomoku, for fun and also to learn both GNU Guile and Sly

It is also meant to teach me how to use the GNU Guix package manager

I intend to add/implement some of the following features and fixes:

• Make the game playable manually
• Figure out the entire flow of signals and how they are updated
• Fix failure caused by pressing 'n' to start new game
• Implement automatic game completion when a player gets 5 consecutive stones
• Implement updates to status messages
• Add theming (background and go-stones)