Fill-Game

Fill-Game is a two-player (adversarial) version of Fillomino. It is (probably) first proposed by Dr. Martin Müller; if so; this software is the first for Fill-Game.

Functions & Goals

• Local play
  • Two human players
  • Human vs. AI player
• Cross-machine play
• Cross-platform deployment

Algorithms

• Proof Number Search (PNS)
• Depth-First Proof Number Search (DFPN)
• Minimax (with alpha-beta pruning and transposition table)
• Negamax (with alpha-beta pruning and transposition table)
• Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)

Build

To build with GUI (requires set up Qt5.12.8)

./linux_build.sh --gui

To build without GUI

./linux_build.sh

Run

Start GUI version

./fillgame_gui

Start CLI version

./fillgame_cli <game-board-string> <time-limit>

To run unittests for algorithms

./test_main

To run experiments

./run_experiments.sh

Development

• Ubuntu 22.04 / WSL2
• VS Code / CLion
• C++ 20
• GUI Framework: Qt5
• Unit test: Google Test
• Formatter: clang-format-12
• Profiler: Valgrind, kcachegrind

Guide

• Follows Google C++ Guide
• Profiler: valgrind --tool=callgrind ./(Your binary) && kcachegrind callgrind.out.x