ieke is played on a grid by placing tiles onto squares and then updateing the corresponding square colors. The object of the game is to either make it so that your opponent(s) don't have any more squares under their control, or, if the different color squares are no longer in conflict, the game ends and the winner is the player with the greater number of squares under his/her/its control.
On Your Turn
On a players turn, he must place one on his tiles on the board on top of a square that he controls (that is his square color). He first chooses two directions for his arrows to point. These can be chosen by using the keypad or 'q'-'c':
7 8 9 q w e
4 6 a d
1 2 3 z x c
He then clicks the mouse on the square he wishes to move on.
The tile is then placed and the squares are updated. First the whole board is cleared except for the tiles. Then the squares are updated. The squares going out from your recently placed tile are captured for you until hitting the edge of the board or a tile. The rest of the tiles on the board are updated in a similar manner, except that they stop also when hitting an already colored square. The play then passes to the next player with any squares to move on.
Starting a Game
When the program starts, the "new game" dialog comes up on the screen, or it can be called at any time from the File menu. The users then set up the game options as they wish. The board can be sized 7 to 13 on both axes. The player type may be human, or choose from three different computer opponents. Custom colors can be chosen by clicking on the square-color you wish to change. The tile color is automatically calculated. After clicking Ok, a new game is started with the pre-set opening squares. These cannot be changed. Have fun!
Computer Opps
There are three computer players:
Curley: the best all-around player. He likes his own squares and dislikes others people's evenly.
Mo: he just wants as many squares as he can get.
Larry: he only dislikes others' squares. Can be annoying.
Pressing apple-period will cancel the computer's thought and allow one to do such things as undo/redo.
Other Options
Open/Save game: works fine as far as I know.
Sound: turn it on or off.
Number tiles: numbers the tiles in the order placed (higher # always triumphs)..
Undo/Redo/Undo All/Redo All: yep.
Go To Move: yep.
Kudos
Thanks to James W. Walker, I used his "help" dialog box (you're probably reading this out of it now). Thanks to Roth Gonzales, he recorded (sang) the game-over song. Thanks go to my brother, Josh, for teaching me the basics of C programming. Thanks (sorta) to my mom for making my do my homework sometimes.
More Stuff
If you were wondering, it's pronunced "eek-ah."
If you were wondering, it's never capitalized.
If you were wondering, I'm smiling mysteriously.
Anyway, time for my Shareware rap. This game is $5. But, if you can't pay, really don't want to, or hate the game, at least send me some e-mail (questions, bugs, for the c source code (no laughing -- it's my first program)). Here are some addresses:
