Play Backgammon against an ava mate, against the computer, or watch the computer play against himself. The AI is at advanced level.
If you are unfamiliar with the game, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backgammon
Backgammon has the following features:
-The game doesn't allow you to make illegal moves and announces when you have to pass (part of) your moves.
-The board indicates the Pip count.
-Undo function.
How to play:
Click the board.
Select if you want to play against an ava mate, the computer or watch the computer play against himself.
2 dices (one black and one white) are presented at the board.
Click the black dice to determine who starts the game.
The opponent is the ava who first clicks the white dice. No other ava is allowed to perform moves during the match.
After the dices have been thrown, the dice next to the middle of the board becomes 'active'. The next move will be performed with the number of points it indicates. The 'inactive' dice is slightly transparent. Click one of the dices to change the active dice. After the first move has been made, the inactive dice automatically becomes active.
The board calculates all possible moves before you can move the pieces to determine whether you can make legal moves and indicates this with a red dot changing into green when finished. In rare cases, especially with doubled dices and on laggy sims, this may take some time (there are too many possibilities to be calculated).
Click one of the side faces of the board to reset.
Enjoy the gammon game.
Contact Kottos Sperber in case of problems.
My board keeps crashing
Everything was going well until my board kept crashing. I'm getting an error message saying "[12:51] Backgammon v7.0.8 [script:Comp] Script run-time error
[12:51] Stack-Heap Collision" and it won't let me move anything after that. And it seems impossible to contact the creator. I'll gladly change my review if someone helps me with this issue.
No Copy
I totally agree with the above review. It has happened to me with a stack dump error. It should be at least be copy. No way to get it redelivered either. I contacted the creator but did not get a reply.
Do Not Recommend
The game is great, but.....it is not possible to have redelivered if an sl glitch causes you to lose it. I know, you think it won't happen to you because you're so careful but guess what? You can't control unexpected restarts etc, and sometimes things get lost. This sucks!
Maybe stating the obvious but this certainly has nothing to do with artificial intelligence.
Nice design, quasi-functional, overpriced and NO_COPY for L1,700!
The ''double cube handling'' which was only implemented in version 7 should have been a big hint. This game's development was started over a decade ago and is still bugged.
The game time-out should not be existent, especially while there is no option to control it(why-O-why would you even put a game time-out?).
The most ridiculous bug is an additional time-out when someone doubles; If ''A'' asks to double and ''B'' does not answer within a minute, game ends and ''B'' wins(!!).
If you double click a pawn, it plays both dices. That should not be happening. A pawn should only move when it is specifically clicked.
When playing dice one dims out to show it's not selected so depending on the alpha around the game, the dice is hard to see.
I would not recommend it for playing against the program which is weak. All you need to do is create a 20 points difference and double for it to resign even if it's in a better position. One thing to watch out; Do not be vulnerable in the computer's home when he has one out as it has a ''tendency''' to get the right dice to kick you out way too often to be random.
Seller does not answer, looks like he's not been around for a long while(still system avatar), his web site is a joke, do not expect any kind of support.
The Best In SL
Have played a few of these and this is a far superior than the others. Only one concern for the price it should be copy at least.
so sad
Yes is a nice game, but have lots of issues..if i am not online my friends cant play because i am only one who can acces menu that is lame.
I pay 1600 for what ? plus is no copy, if i lost it no way get it back..sad sad...
Sorry but cant give more then 1 star.
Thank you