Sunday, October 13, 2024

Iterations two and three

I played a bunch of Gargantua games against myself using the first iteration of my Gargantua app, and realized that I needed to make the gargantuas more powerful. I removed their ability to make bigger leaps, but added the ability for them to move like a queen in addition to their ability to move like a knight. They were now the most powerful pieces  on the board.

I played a bunch more games against myself using the second iteration, and realized it made no sense for each player to have two gargantuas; there should be only one most powerful piece on the board for each player, as there is in standard chess. Therefore, I decided to make the following changes:

- change the board size from 10x10 to 10x8

- remove one gargantua from each player

- add another queen for each player

- put the queens in the corners, where the gargantuas used to be

- put the gargantuas where the queens used to be

Here's what my initial board for iteration three looked like:


 

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