NXO refers to 'n-dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe', an extension of traditional tic tac toe into a generic number of dimensions. The goal of this project is simply to provide a way to play this modified game with your friends. This is not a production version, as there are far more security (also known as any level of security) and scalability measures to take, but it acts as a proof of concept nonetheless.
This system provides the following:
- Synchronous online play with your friends
- Different bots to play against (implemented with different algorithms and playstyles)
- A no-account lobby authentication system (inspired by Jackbox)
The following technologies are utilized:
- The backend web app is built on ASP.Net Core in C#, with a (possibly unecessary) level of abstraction between the game specific logic and the web hosting itself. The original idea behind this was so we could add additional variations/games into this system later on (which may or may not happen).
- The frontend is written in Blazor WebAssembly in C#. A large part of the motivation for this project for (Rob) was to see how well Blazor works with traditional ASP.Net Web Applications (coming from a traditional MVC background).
- For synchronous actions, we utilize WebSockets (using SignalR specifically due to the existance of libraries for Blazor WASM).
The idea is that you play the same way that you would play regular tic-tac-toe, but the win conditions are spread across many more dimensions. It is somewhat difficult to describe exactly what happens in each
More mathematical and gameplay details can be found on the About page.
Robert Scheidegger 🚀💡 - Project lead and Full-Stack engineer
James Billings 💥 ⭐ - Bot algorithms and AI
Erik Swanson ✒️📐 - Design and CSS Wizardry 🔮