Checkers Electric

[Jeff]

Checkers Electric
By Keith Adler

The classic game of Checkers with awesome retro graphics optimized for playing in the dark.

Features

- Single and two player modes
- High resolution graphics for iPad and Retina display users
- Three levels of CPU difficulty (Easy, Medium, and Yikes!) in single player mode
- Catchy music and sounds
- Ability to undo any moves all the way back to the start of the game
- Valid pieces to be moved are shown brighter to make playing more intuitive

Rules

Standard Checkers rules apply with the following being applicable:

- Pieces are white and red
- Starting color of players is picked at random
- Red always goes first
- Jumps are mandatory

[Keith]

As an FYI: I have a version 1.1 already in the works to address the difficulty of the Easy and Hard modes when you play the CPU. The Minimax w/Alpha Pruning algorithm I created is still way too smart for novice players making the CPU hard to beat in single player mode. Given my expertise with Checkers I didn't discover this during testing so the lesson learned is to test with as many people as possible.

While I did the AI logic as an extension (8,000 lines of C++/Objective-C that had me questioning my grasp of game theory) the UI aspect could never have been as good as it is without MMF2 Developer.

[Koji_Kabuto]

Congratulations Keith for your new App!!!

[mikec]

Love the app keith. I play draughts a lot and struggled in hard mode. My only request would be to have the option to turn off the particle effect in the background, it hurts my eyes.

[Keith]

That's some good insight Mike. I had the particles there in order to add some spice when playing in the dark. I'll work that into a future release for sure. For now you can shake your device to change the particle colors immediately instead of every ten seconds like it does on default.

[Evilized79]

Downloaded, love it! simple but fun game! thumps up!

[Keith]

The update to fix the difficulty settings has been pushed to Apple and should appear in about a week.

[StingRay]

Hi Keith!

How you have done the Minimax Algorythm in MMF2 Dev?!?

I'm trying to create a Connect Four game and wanna use it,
but have actually no clue whats the best way to do it.

[Michel_Skowronski]

Hi Jeff!
Do you still have the checkers mechanics you guys did a few years ago?
If you have and can sell me I would be very happy.