SixtyFour v1.0 (C) 2004, Akop Karapetyan http://www.akop.org 1. DESCRIPTION -------------- SixtyFour is a 4x4x4 Tic-Tac-Toe program, written in C++ with OpenGL. It follows the same general rules as regular Tic-Tac-Toe - players take turns making moves on a 3-dimensional board, and first player to get four dots in a straight or diagonal line wins. The initial setting for SixtyFour is a single-player game against the computer (with the computer playing Blue). To play against another player, select "New", then "Human only" from the "Game" menu. You can also have the computer play Red by selecting "CPU vs. Human" from the "New Game" menu. 2. REQUIREMENTS --------------- Windows 2000/XP with a decent OpenGL-compatible accelerator card. 3. PLAYING SIXTYFOUR -------------------- To make a move, click any of the silver dots. At any time, you can also have the computer suggest a move by pressing "H", or selecting "Request a Hint" from the "Move" menu. Once the computer finds a move, it will highlight a dot - suggested dots will appear in either red or blue (depending on whose turn it is to move), with an illuminated sphere rotating around it. Note that you may have to rotate the board to see the suggested move, since it may fall on a back plane. To save the game, press F6, or select "Save" or "Save As" from the "Game" menu. To load a game, press F9, or select "Open" from the "Game" menu. To restart a game, press F2. You can navigate through the game's move history by selecting an appropriate action from the Move menu. You can also use the shortcut keys (Home, Up, Down, End) to navigate to the opening, last, next, and final moves, respectively. You can use this option to take back moves and make others; notice, however, that the computer does not play as you flip through - to force the computer to move again, select "Invoke Computer Move" from the "Move" menu, or press F5. The computer highlights the last move made by strobing the sphere from red or blue to white; a winning move is also highlighted in this fashion (if there are several, only one will be highlighted). 4. OTHER FEATURES ----------------- To rotate the board, click and drag anywhere outside the silver dots. 5. VERSION CHANGES ------------------ 1.0 Original version