othello

A simple game of othello with an AI opponent.

###Description Othello is a game that is played in a player vs. computer format. It is a two player game with each player having a colour (typically black and white), and the goal of the game is to finish with more tiles of your colour on the board than the tiles of your opponents colour.

The game takes place on an 8x8 grid with a middle 2x2 square filled with pieces of alternating colour. The players take turns placing tiles of their respective colours. If placing the tile creates a continuous line of tiles with their colour at the beginning and end of the line, all the tiles in the line “flip” to become their colour.

For a move to be valid it must create one of the aforementioned lines. If there are no valid moves, you must pass your turn to your opponent. The game is completed once both players cannot move, and the player with more tiles of their colour on the board wins.

###Instructions to Play To play Othello, run the file othello.py in IDLE for Python 3.x, and press F5 to run the program. You can also run it in any Python 3.x interpreter.

You will be presented with an 8x8 grid on the screen with a 2x2 square of alternating tiles in the middle as described above. There will be a scoreboard in the bottom section of the screen to keep track of your score (how many tiles of your colour) and to indicate whose turn it is.

When it is your turn, you'll see green dots showing all of your valid moves. Clicking one of these dots will make a move and it will now be the computer's turn.

If you wish to restart or create a new game, you may press the "Restart" button in the top left of the screen. To quit, you may press the "Quit" button in the top right of the screen.

###TO DO:

• Good win/loss indicator

###DONE:

• Better AI (minimax with alpha beta pruning is end-goal)
• Player turn indicator
• Restart/Quit GUI
• Animation for changing tiles