Rock, Paper, Scissors

[Nick]

It's not a whole lot, but last night my brother and I created a Cocoa-based rock paper scissors game in about an hour (from ideas to the internet in less than 60 minutes). I figured someone might have fun with it. check out my webpage for the free download.

[socksy]

ROCK IS DEAD!

Long live paper and scissors.

The game itself is quite nice - I like the graphics and recommend you make thhe panes they're in with a white background and not the standard gui colour. As the kind of people who do play these sort of games would either be a quick game from a person working, or a young child. To appeal to the children too, make big buttons with the rock, paper, and scissors as graphics on them.

What would be nice to see in a game in this genre would be something more than a random choice for the opponent. It doesn't need to be much ai, just enough for instance when I have chose scissors for ages and each time it was a tie, for the next one the computer choses is paper is just dumb for about everyone, or doubly smart with a dumb person.

All in all - great little game and a good example of how good games can be made quickly.

[phydeaux]

Has anyone played the old Alex Kidd series on the Sega Master System? In that game you'd fight bosses once in a while by playing RPS (as one of its many asian names, JanKenPon ) The character was telepathic, so the game was no longer a complete game of chance- you could see what your opponent was thinking, so the idea was to try to match your enemy's choice at the last minute, or memorize the enemy's pattern. It was a pretty neat take on un-randomizing a completely random game.

That also reminds me of Chrono Cross where there's this one part where a spinner quickly spins around a bunch of choices and you press the button to stop it, and you get whatever it lands on- the spinner was going too fast to time, but if you kept pausing the game you could see where it was currently, and effectively choose where to stop it.

I guess my point is just that a lot of really interesting game designs center around the player putting order into things that are seemingly random.

[Nick]

I'm not entirely sure about how to change the backgrounds of the image view panes. I did revamp the UI a little bit and plan on changing the AI over the weekend. Today is too busy for me to do much work on it. I'm also planning on having a tic-tac-toe game done tomorrow and possibly another small, simple game done over the weekend as well. I plan on writing tutorials for creating all of these and hosting them on my site.

[socksy]

If it happens to be too difficult - or too much trouble for such a small game to get it to have a white background - just make the images bigger and make them have a white bacground and not transparent

[Nick]

They do have white backgrounds (the images). The are jpgs. There's no transparency. I thought there might be a command or setting to get a white background.

[socksy]

I meant having a bigger picture to fit the pane...
There is a very logical way to this in interface builder but it has been ages since I've played with anything much mac specific - mainly because most my games have content created by windows users. Therefore, it is probably something really easy in the nib file. I'm speaking absolute b******s here so I'll stop

[unknown]

I find dark blue on black ground hard to read
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