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Dots and Boxes

You and a player exchange turns connecting dots to form boxes. Go again if you make a box. When all dots have been connected, the player with the most boxes wins.

Notes

My skills with ActionScript 3 improved greatly, and as a result I decided to put more thought into the design and interface of the game. All parts of the game were drawn out by hand and scanned in to create the notebook feel.

This is also my first game to incorporate AI. I ended up not programming in some tricky moves I originally wanted to computer to be able to make, but I think they might have made the game too challenging if they were included. I may end up adding a difficulty setting, we’ll see…