has anybody written a Go program in Go?

[Hugh Aguilar]

I'm referring to the game with the black and white stones, called Go
in Japan and most everywhere else, Baduk in Korea, and Wei-chi in
China. The name "Go" is somewhat confusing --- one time some guys were
playing at a coffee shop and somebody walked up and asked, "What game
is this?" --- one of them said "Go," and the person got angry and
walked away!

I'm only 7-kyu (on KGS, using the name Classic), so I'm not ready to
tackle writing a Go program myself. I would expect that Go would be a
good language though, as it supports concurrency, so the program could
examine multiple areas of the board simultaneously.

I just downloaded Go for Windows. Can anybody recommend an editor that
can be used as an IDE?

I don't have any project that I want to do in Go --- I just want to
learn it for general interest --- hopefully soon I will think of
something that it would be good for, as I have always believed that
the best way to learn a language is to just go ahead and write a
program rather than "study" the language. What kind of programs is Go
mostly used for? Is it competing against against Python as a scripting
language, or against C++ for writing big programs?

[Brendan Tracey]

Someone started a player, but it doesn't look like it's been worked on much.

https://github.com/skybrian/Gongo

Following the tour and reading effective go are good ways to get started. You could also watch some of the videos on youtube, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVhBThJdXc

[Hugh Aguilar]

On Apr 22, 9:39 pm, Brendan Tracey <tracey.bren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone started a player, but it doesn't look like it's been worked on much.

What about other games, such as Chess, or the easier ones such as
Reversi and Checkers and so forth?

I invented a game some time ago and have been wanting to write a
program for it. This might be a good project for me to learn Go
programming. It is a card game, but it is amendable to an Alpha-Beta
search.

Any suggestions on graphics libraries, that would include playing
cards?

Does Go get used much for games? It seems like Go's concurrency should
be a natural for games. I haven't given any thought to the subject
since I was a teenager, and in those days I had a Commodore-64 --- our
computers are a little bit more powerful nowadays.

[Alexei Sholik]

Any suggestions on graphics libraries, that would include playing
cards?

I have personally settled on OpenGL through glfw, couldn't find a complete graphics/game engine in Go. You might want to look through these http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Graphics_and_Audio

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[Peter A. Cejchan]

maybe these?:
http://godoc.org/github.com/Nightgunner5/gogame-engine
https://github.com/skybrian/Gongo

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[Hotei]

Hugh,

A open source library with cards you might consider is pysol-4.60 with 77 different decks in the version I inspected.  They're gif images and many are rather poor resolution but you might find something useful (the standard ones I used with freecell were quite good).  Go's "image/gif" library should be able to handle them though I have NOT tried it myself.

[Robin Eklind]

On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:37:29 AM UTC+2, Hugh Aguilar wrote:

On Apr 22, 9:39 pm, Brendan Tracey <tracey.bren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone started a player, but it doesn't look like it's been worked on much.

What about other games, such as Chess, or the easier ones such as
Reversi and Checkers and so forth?

 

A simple implementation of tic-tac-toe is located at:
https://github.com/mewmew/playground/tree/master/vaga

If you want to try it out, run:
$ go get github.com/mewmew/playground/vaga/cmd/vaga

I uses go.wde for rendering, which makes it cross platform to some extent.
 
https://github.com/skelterjohn/go.wde

I invented a game some time ago and have been wanting to write a
program for it. This might be a good project for me to learn Go
programming. It is a card game, but it is amendable to an Alpha-Beta
search.

Any suggestions on graphics libraries, that would include playing
cards?

OpenGL: https://github.com/chsc/gogl

A game toolkit with OpenGL support: https://github.com/Agon/baukasten
 

Does Go get used much for games? It seems like Go's concurrency should
be a natural for games. I haven't given any thought to the subject
since I was a teenager, and in those days I had a Commodore-64 --- our
computers are a little bit more powerful nowadays.

Good luck :)

[Hugh Aguilar]

On Apr 23, 1:04 pm, Hotei <hotei1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hugh,
> A open source library with cards you might consider is pysol-4.60 with 77
> different decks in the version I inspected.  They're gif images and many
> are rather poor resolution but you might find something useful (the
> standard ones I used with freecell were quite good).  Go's "image/gif"
> library should be able to handle them though I have NOT tried it myself.

Thanks for everybody's help --- I will look into these links. :-)