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Sistance's EXPLODE!
Interesting facts for developers


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Sistance's Explode! is a turn based board game developed for android devices. Besides to contribute a nice little game to the android world I also wanted to learn the basics in app workflow, android memory management and so on.

The technologies I use aren't challenging inside app development. Notably I didn't have to master difficult requirements such as network protocols, life cycles in multiplayer games or latencies.

Anyway I touched some topics - even if not android specific - that can be interesting for other developers. In example I gathered some basics for AI development that are characteristical for games like this.

In many games, especially in real time strategy games, the player doesn't expect the computer opponent to act in an absolutely perfect manner. It's more important that the AI even acts at all, in a "human like" (and challenging) manner. In turn based games, such an approach is counterproductive, because the human player can discover illegitimate or stupid actions more easily - and punish it. Usually the player has plenty of time, focus lays on planning and tactics.

An AI that clearly acts random, destroys the gaming experience.

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