tactic

A terminal tic-tac-toe game with AI opponent, written in Rust.

Play tic-tac-toe (a.k.a. "noughts and crosses" or "Xs and Os") in the terminal against an AI opponent or another human player.

Features

• Play against a friend, play against a computer, or pit two computer players against each other

• Configurable computer player difficulty

• Configurable game ending settings

  • Best of x number of games

  • Best of x number of won (non-draw) games

  • First player to x score

  • Unlimited (play until deciding to quit)

• Reverse mode

  • Instead of playing to get three of your pieces in a row, try to force the opposing player to place three of their pieces in a row

Installation instructions

1. Install the Rust programming language with rustup

2. Install tactic with cargo install tactic

Development instructions

1. Install the Rust programming language with rustup

2. Clone the tactic repository locally

   • e.g. git clone https://github.com/generic-user1/tactic.git

3. Enter the local copy of the repository

   • e.g. cd tactic

4. Make changes to source code as desired

5. Run project with cargo run

   • To improve game performance (especially with computer players), run in release mode

     • e.g. cargo run --release

Dependencies

As a user, you likely won't have to worry about these as cargo will take care of downloading and building them for you.

• crossterm
• rand