I have not been able to find past games I could review. See my earlier comment for details.
I believe I was the one, not David Paulowich, who nominated Atlantian Coffee House Shatranj and Heroes Hexagonal Chess 2 (not that they have much chance anyway).
You are correct, and I have made the correction. Even today when I was entering your new seconds, I had to check back on whether your name was David or Daniel, because my main mnemonic was that it was an Old Testament name starting with D. I probably made the same kind of slip-up earlier, then followed it with a surname I associate with David.
Also, add me as a second for McCooey's and Opulent Lemurian Shatranj.
I have done that, and since McCooey's Hexagonal Chess was eligible to be featured, I made it the featured variant for May, 2025.
It seems like the ai requirement is a huge limitation in this process. How many games that aren't on small 2d rectangular boards will ever qualify for that?
The requirement is for a strong computer opponent, and for most variants, except maybe variants with drops, it can be met with a ZRF for playing it with Zillions-of-Games. People have programmed large variants, hexagonal variants, 3D variants and even some 4D variants for it. It is not difficult to program a game for Zillions-of-Games. They have done the hard work of writing the game engine, and all you have to do is alter a file for specifying the rules and maybe provide some graphics. Instead of selling it at a fixed price, they are now letting you donate whatever you want to get a product key that unlocks the demo you can freely download from the Zillions-of-Games website. And although development stopped on it a long time ago, it has worked with every version of Windows I have used with it from Windows 95 to Windows 11.
I have not been able to find past games I could review. See my earlier comment for details.
You are correct, and I have made the correction. Even today when I was entering your new seconds, I had to check back on whether your name was David or Daniel, because my main mnemonic was that it was an Old Testament name starting with D. I probably made the same kind of slip-up earlier, then followed it with a surname I associate with David.
I have done that, and since McCooey's Hexagonal Chess was eligible to be featured, I made it the featured variant for May, 2025.
The requirement is for a strong computer opponent, and for most variants, except maybe variants with drops, it can be met with a ZRF for playing it with Zillions-of-Games. People have programmed large variants, hexagonal variants, 3D variants and even some 4D variants for it. It is not difficult to program a game for Zillions-of-Games. They have done the hard work of writing the game engine, and all you have to do is alter a file for specifying the rules and maybe provide some graphics. Instead of selling it at a fixed price, they are now letting you donate whatever you want to get a product key that unlocks the demo you can freely download from the Zillions-of-Games website. And although development stopped on it a long time ago, it has worked with every version of Windows I have used with it from Windows 95 to Windows 11.