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Onitama is an abstract game:
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It retails for anywhere between 25 - 35 Euros.

Of course people who do not want to spend that sort of money and have
a bit of imagination can make their own version:
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The rules are fairly straightforward:
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So . . . to LiveCode:

So . . . to my Summer classes . . .

So . . . today I introduced this game to the boys and girls in the class and we played it and did
some sort of functional analysis of the game . . .

Those of the children who have Android phones and/or tablets installed the FREE

Onitama.apk package so they could play it and think about things on the bus on the way home.

https://m.apkpure.com/onitama-the-strat ... al.onitama

I gave them a stack like this:
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Where the board has started being constructed and the playing pieces are present.

Then I rambled on about custom properties a bit . . .

Pointed out that the computer would need to 'see' on which square of the board
a piece was placed . . .

Then sent them home . . .

Now, not wanting to look unduly stupid in front of the children tomorrow
I sat down to do my homework:
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Obviously this is NOT the complete game.

What is present is the ability to move pieces any where one wants (no restrictions of moves
imposed by cards yet), the inability to put 2 of one's pieces on the same square, the ability
to capture an opponent's piece, and a RESET button.

So, here's a wee stack to pump out position cards:
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Stack deleted as improved version uploaded below.

Um . . .

Trying to mess around with custom properties
and wonder what is wrong with this:

Unfortunatly we cannot modify custom properties directly!
We need to store the value in a variable, modify that and set the modified CP back:

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This is a better card generator as it places a small, black dot at the top of each card.

Each of the squares surrounding the central green one can be clicked to set it as red or white.

Then a card can be generated: they will be named, sequentially: Kq, K2, K3 and so on.
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Hmm . . .
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We got 'off' on a long, complex and sweaty conversation about custom properties,
Onitama position cards, and, slightly oddly, Quadomino pieces today.
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All, good, clean fun.
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After some discussion we concluded that each card will have to have between 2 and 4 custom properties,
and HOW those custom properties are interpreted will depend on the angle of the card:
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Here's a far, far more useful card maker.

While I am aware that the vast majority of readers of these LiveCode Forums
make their bread and cheese in the "abstrusities" of 'serious' programming,
I have a continuing belief in:

1. The educational use of LiveCode to teach:

1.1. Programming concepts.

1.2. Abstract thinking.

1.3. Thinking laterally.

2. Taking something (a computer game, a computer program that does something other than
talk to other programs, a physical, abstract game) and getting an up-and-running, functional
model of that something as:

2.1. A way to learn computer programming.

2.2. Learn how to transfer skills.

2.3. Work out that 'fun' is not (and should not) something that consists of totally
mindless activity.

BUT, it should be emphasised, I am NOT first and foremost a programmer, I am first and foremost an educator
who believes:

3. Most people (children or adults) are NOT stimulated to think nearly as much as they should be.

Unfortunatly we cannot modify custom properties directly!

No, we cannot.

So, we will use the angle of a movement card to ascertain possible moves.

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Having used my card maker stack to generate the standard
Onitama set of 16 cards along with custom properties
I have now got them tucked away on the stack so that 5 can be chosen at pseudo-random
and positioned for play.

The dot on each card serves as an indicator to us as to the card's angle.