KISMET v1.1a
Ashamed as I am to admit it, I'd become addicted to a Windoze program.
It was a PD game that I FTPed some time ago, and it was called -- can
you guess -- Kismet. Well, I couldn't stand to have to use "The Evil
OS" just to play this one game, so I decided that as my first complete
programming project for NEXTSTEP, I'd rewrite the darn thing. This is
the result.
There is no online help for Kismet because the game is really pretty
simple. It's very much like Yahtzee (tm), but with a twist. The
faces of each die are different colors. 1 & 6 are yellow, 2 & 5 are
red, and 3 & 4 are blue. On mono machines, these are actually
different shades of gray. This allows the addition of some hands that
weren't in Yahtzee, such as "Two pair same color", "Flush", "Full
house same color", and so on.
Play is simple. Your hand is shown along the left side of the window.
You roll by clicking on the button beneath the dice. Then you select
the dice you want to keep by clicking on them. A white outline marks
the dice you are keeping. You get three rolls to make the best hand
you can. Then you have to choose what you want to score the hand as.
Click on the button next to your choice from the list on the right.
"Info>Reference Card..." brings up a panel showing you how the various
options are scored. If you accidentally choose the wrong scoring
option, you can undo that particular score. Note that you CANNOT undo
any given roll, just a scoring selection. Try to get as high a score
as possible by carefully choosing the dice to roll and which option to
score. The top eight high scores are recorded.
This app is compiled FAT for m68k/i386/hp-pa, so you'll need NS v3.x.
The game itself has undergone severe play testing in our household, so
most of the bugs should be gone. Still, you can never guarantee that
all of them are fixed, so let me know if you find a problem.
Changes in 1.1a
- Nothing, really. Just released Triple Fat with source code.
(Thanks to Erik Kay at NeXT for the HP-PA compilation!)
Changes in 1.1
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to select dice from the previous
hand before they rerolled, a great cheating tool.
- Included descriptions of a Yarborough and Kismet on the Reference
Card.
Hope you enjoy the game!!!
Joe Reiss
jreiss@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
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