{"author_name":"CodeVandal","cat":"October Challenge 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"pythong","time":"November 8, 2010 7:51 am","epoch":1289220660,"text":"this looks actually like an awesome math-game. if i had an ipad, i’d buy it! don’t forget to tell us when you managed to get a dollar \ud83d\ude00 (though i guess you’ll make more)","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1288572480,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"69065","p_author":"CodeVandal","p_authorkey":"510153","p_urlkey":"104868","p_title":"About Five-O, my entry for the October Challenge","p_cat":"October Challenge 2010","p_event":"LD18","p_time":"1288572480","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"510153","us_name":"CodeVandal","us_username":"CodeVandal","event_start":"1282262400","event_key":"4","event_name":"LD18"},"text":"

Five-O is a board game I’ve been developing in my spare time over the last few years. It started as a side project during college. I was taking a course in artificial intelligence, and I wanted to create a game with an AI component. Growing up, I had played one of the many “Scrabble-but-with-numbers” games and had fond memories of it. Searching the internet revealed not a single good implementation of this idea for the computer, so that’s what I set out to make.<\/p>\n

The basic rules are as follows. Players take turns placing intersecting sequences of numbers on a board. Each sequence must total to five or a multiple of five, and no sequences may be more than five tiles in length. For example, 7-3-8-7 would be a valid sequence because it adds up to 25. The sequence 3-9-5 is not valid because it adds up to 17 which is not a multiple of five. You can read more on the game’s webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the release of the iPad, I put the desktop version of Five-O on hold and started focusing on getting an iPad version done. The device is just too perfect for board games like Five-O. The October Challenge was the push I needed to finally finish version 1.0 and publish it in the App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tags: board game<\/a>, Five-O<\/a>, iPad<\/a><\/p>","time":"October 31st, 2010 7:48 pm","title":"About Five-O, my entry for the October Challenge"}