playBunny has created a cool new ludo board on aigamez.com To calibrate all weekend (12AM Saturday to 11:59:59 Sunday) all winning games count for double points.

aaru: that is correct. 220points for player 1 in each game.

aaru: Central Daylight Time(GMT-6)

Can anyone beet Zabrina at Ludo? She is turning 22 on July 10th. If you are number 1 at 2200 CDT then you will get an extra 220 points.

aigamez.com

well aigamez.com has been having some trouble over the last 2 days. I am looking into getting a secondary server to make things like this impossible(if you know any hosting companies that support php and are cheap please suggest them). In the mean time to apologize:

For the next 24 hours all games receive 3x the points.
For the 24 hours after that all games receive 2x the points.

Every point can be redeemed for a raffle ticket for the 6 month rook membership being given away. Membership can be given to a friend or tacked on the end of your current membership.

If you want in the prize raffle you do need to spend your points on tickets by going to the prize page.

Chaosu: you can just use on if you want it to autopass all the time.

as for the draw yes the 6 month membership willl be at the end of july.

do you disagrea with my reasoning aaru?

aaru: Top 10 Most Moves in a Single Day: and Top 10 Average Moves/Day: only change once a day. The 3 stats that show after finishing a game are those related to the game. The others are site wide. I will be adding more games in the near future and for each there will be the 3 that show after the game ends.

So the answer is it is possible but I don't think it makes sence. If others disagrea speak up.

new stats up:

http://aigamez.com/?page=stats

% based win/loss system I don't think is the best because it is difficult to increase your score after you have played many games. Does anyone know the formula to a system like BKR that I could use for aigamez.com?

Ya there is finally 10 people in the top 10 list.

http://aigamez.com/?page=stats

nodnarbo: currylms has taken your spot as #1. Though you are up to #3 in points

nodnarbo: Well a few have tried. We need more players. Silly having a top 10 list that only goes to 9

Anyone think they can get to number 1 in the established top 10 list?

http://aigamez.com/?page=stats

playBunny: You will be happy to know the ludo on aigamez.com is faster still with the code. If you take more then 1.5 sec to chose your move there is no delay at all.

you can now log in through the Brainking login script:

http://aigamez.com/brainking/?u=USER_ID_NUMBER&code=3RD_PARTY_CODE&showbars

if you register an account after loging in this way then logging in through aigamez.com or through the above will access the same account.  Working on the link feature for people that already have an account(I manually linked the 2 that had already made accounts)

Now if only fencer would add a link to this automatically filling in the blanks you could easily click on the link and play games on aigamez.com without having to log in manually.

playBunny: ya you registered right while I was fixing it. That error is corrected now. Though obviously there are some bugs still. Some how you have 3 open games in my database(waists space should not effect game play as only the first one is ever used and that one should always be correct).

Hey one person has 18 points on my site already.

Tonight job finish BK and facebook interfaces. Then petition Fencer to add a link to the BK login script when you have no games that it is your turn in. Do I have any supporters for that?

playBunny: ok found 2 more bugs that worked on my local server but not here. Fixed now. If you see any bugs or have any improvement suggestions to make it better please tell me.

playBunny: lol that was no minor bug(wel only 1 character missing. fixed now. had i been more awake would have looked first before asking.

playBunny: realy what?

Official lanch date is May 1st but I thought I may get your oppinions. I will be writing the brainking login system tomorow hopefully.

If you would like to play ludo against my server you can now use

http://aigamez.com/

If you create an account and log in then your games are stored indefinetly and you can get points wich later will be redemable for prizes. If you don't you can ply but your games are only saved as long as you maintain the session(until you close firefox) and you don't get any points.

Other then Statistics, Prizes, and Feature Request options in the menu don't work the site should be fully functional. It can be loged on to from facebook using

http://apps.facebook.com/aigamez/

however you can't register your account yet through this.

Any errors or sugestions?

Glad you like.

playBunny: is the auto start to your liking? It will pass until there is a player on the board.

Oh I have registered

http://aigamez.com

currently goes directly to bkludo but soon I will make a seperate login page and have all ai games I have written on there.

Currently just ludo but 4 player ludo is almost done.

Well now to implement the autostart feature. Then start working on version 2.4

playBunny: well i will try at 250ms and see how the server handles(been pretty good). No i ment the ajax autopass and automove are much quicker then the method used before and now you atleast have a nive graphic and never get firefox loop error message.

Though if you have autopass and automove on it is actually considerably faster even with the slight delay.

i did not say it would be faster said it would seem faster. Actually I had to slow it down a tad to keep the server happy. This way there is always at least .5sec per page.

still have not implemented autostart but with a little java scripting it runs much faster now.

playBunny: very good point. I am currently overhalling the ludoBoard class to make a 4 player version not need entirely new code. Once working properly I will add autosixes to the choice.

playBunny: Well i can make a new feature "auto pass until eather player can play" so it passes until you or opponent can play. Has a llittle more diverse use but what would I call it.

playBunny: not sure what you are asking here. At present if you can't get a 6 you can turn autopass on to skip ahead till you get a 6 or opponent wins.

playBunny: should I use javascript to make the pieces move 1 step at a time.

aaru: that is pretty impressive.

To Animate or not to Animate that is the question?

Would you like to see the pieces disappear from were you select reapear in new location then have opponents do the same? Or keep as is?

playBunny: that is true. I don't like the 3 die limit rule. There is no limit in my game though it will only show correctly up to x6 as there is no x7 image yet

playBunny: thanks. it has taken a few revisions to get it to this point. I want it to be as chalenging as possible. I am thinking about doing backgamon after 4 player ludo.

playBunny: ok. I got 30% in grade 13 english :( I will change it to ticket. Still do you like the game? If so please make sure fencer knows I am proposing it be added to brainking when you play all your games. I am currently working on 4 player ludo.

playBunny: Typo that I will have to fix(Ballet) as for showing win/loss I found the problem and fixed it.

playBunny: the facebook version does say who won. Can't figure out why this one is not but I am going to start trying to figure it out now.

not on facebook and want to try out my AI Ludo player you can by going to the following URL

http://fb.mctrivia.com/brainking/bkludo.php?u=BKid&code=3rdPartyCode

Make sure you change values in bold to correct values

Well I have done some number crunching. My AI Ludo Player Version 2.2 is sitting at 52.3% win rate playing against humans and always being black. This actually beats BKs average of 48.07% for black playing human against human.

My AI player is starting to get prity good. It just beet me. Currently on version 2.1 of the AI code. Working on version 2.2 Is it bad to be adicted to your own creation? Now all I need is to make it use AJAX so I don't have to reload each time and implement an animated autoplayer option. Any other features people want? It even works on cell phones though the board is made up of ascii

well my server was down for a little bit. It got rebooted though and is back up and running now.

Try out the AI player at: http://apps.facebook.com/brainking/ludo.php you need to be on facebook first

playBunny: well ther is mctriviaAI is a pawn here but it does not work yet

Well the AI Ludo Player had a rough start. But the code is stable now in both computer and mobile versions(go to the link below to try on your cell) and I have vastly improved the intelligent level of the AI Player. It is far from the perfect player but I will keep working on it.

As a promo I have decided to give away 3 bishop memberships(I would give more but I have no paying advertisers yet). Each time you win a game against the AI Player you are entered into the draw. The draw will be held on May 1st. If you win and do not need the prize you can chose any pawn to receive it on your behalf.

If anyone wishes to donate memberships to this draw contact me and I will show your banner for free.

Happy Playing all improvement requests are wanted please tell all your friends:
http://apps.facebook.com/brainking/ludo.php (must log into facebook first)

AbigailII: check out bk.mctrivia.com I have writen two autoplayers for brainking.

http://www.mctrivia.com/autoplayer/login.php is the easiest one to use as all you have to do is sign up

Free programs I have writen to make brainking more interesting:

AutoPlayer - Plays all games with 0 or 1 choice unless oponent sends a comment.

BK CSS Maker - Creates your own custom CSS file to make BrainKing look different