Seven Colors 0.80 - A little addicting game, take over the gaming area with your color.

Copyright (C) 2000 Bellotti Stefano <signo@lugbs.linux.it>

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Description
===========

7colors is a game for two players (you can also play alone against the
computer), the players play on a game table diveded in random colored rhombs
(the total colors are 7).  Player 1 owns the rhomb in the lower left corner,
and player 2 the upper right one, each turn the player chooses one of the seven
colors (excluding the own color or the opponent's one), which expands from
his rhomb to all the neighbours of the same color (it's like the fill tool of
the drawing programs), the goal is to color the 50% plus one of the rhombs.
The game mode is hard to explain but easy to play, if you try it a couple of
time you'll understand with no problem how it works.


Hints
=====

When you play you should try to reach the opposite border of the game table,
doing so you get all enclosed rhombs. You have to choose the shortest way, with
maximum number of aligned rhombs of the same color, and you have to choose how
far to get in the opponent's half table, if you go too far you can have
problems closing the region, if you stop too early maybe you can't get enought
rhombs. A good tactic is to choose the color needed by the opponent, trying to
stop him.
The computer is a poor player in this version, I think I can make him a little
more challenging in next versions, but the best is to play against a friend.


Installation
=============

Just run in order:
./configure
make
make install


Usage
======

sevencolors options
  -w, --width=WIDTH           Width of the game table
  -h, --height=HEIGHT         Height of the game table
  -1, --player1=TYPE          Player 1 type ('c' for computer, 'h' for human)
  -2, --player2=TYPE          Player 2 type ('c' for computer, 'h' for human)

With -w and -h you can set game table dimension, the default is 18x18, a nice
dimension is also 16x32.

-1 and -2 set player type to human player or computer automatic play.
The default is player 1 human and player 2 computer.
If you want something funny try sevencolors -1 c -2 c :-)


Addresses
=========

The latest version of 7colors is avaiable at:
http://digilander.iol.it/sbel/7colors.english.html

For questions, comments, bug reports write to:
Stefano Bellotti <signo@lugbs.linux.it>