Welcome to Gomoku.app !
Gomoku.app is an extended TicTacToe game for GNUstep. You win the game if you are able to put 5 of your pieces in a row, column or diagonal. You lose if the computer does it before you.
Most of the development effort was concentrated on the artificial intelligence engine used by the computer while playing. Unlike most other engines, this engine is not designed to play very well, but rather to give you fun when you play against it.
This program is free sofware, released under GNU GPL 2.0.
Please check the 'INSTALL' file to build the game on GNUstep, and the 'INSTALL.OSX' file to build the game on Apple/Mac OS X.
The program has been translated into the following languages:
English Italian (by Nicola Pero nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com) French (by Emmanuel Maillard e.rsz@libertysurf.fr) Swedish (by Erik Dalen dalen@jpl.nu) Spanish (by Rodrigo Sancho Senosiain ruysan@wanadoo.es) German (by Matthias Zoellner matthias.zoellner@fen-net.de) Traditional Chinese (by Yen-Ju Chen yjchenx@hotmail.com) Hungarian (by Varga Peter debbug123@freemail.hu) Norwegian (by Per Christian Gaustad svele@netcom.no)
Under GNUstep, to run Gomoku.app in your preferite language, for example Italian, set your GNUstep preferences to use that language by giving the following command at the shell prompt:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSLanguages "(Italian)"
To translate it into another language, just take the English.lproj/Localizable.strings, translate each string into your language (look at Italian.lproj/Localizable.strings for an example), put everything into a new YourLanguage.lproj/Localizable.strings. Add your language to the GNUmakefile. Ah - and don't forget to send the result of your work to nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com so it can be included in the next release !
If you get bored with the standard board, you can play the game on boards of different size; the default size is 8 but 10 is also nice to play. Pass the size of the board as argument of Gomoku.app. For example, to play on a 10x10 board, you can start Gomoku with:
openapp ./Gomoku.app 10
Warning: board size must be >= 8.
Please mail them to nicola.pero@meta-innovation.com
http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Applications/Gomoku/
To David Relson relson@osagesoftware.com, for providing support for boards of arbitrary sizes.
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