{"id":1781,"edition":10,"categories":7,"features":0,"size":7450,"name":"The Devil's Fourplay","authors":[{"name":"Andrew Higson-Smith","url":"www.elementalsystems.co.za","login":"ElementalSystems","gh":4255763}],"description":"

A 3D tic-tac-toe like game that can be played against an AI opponent; against a local opponent or against a human opponent through the cloud.

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Learn to play, practice a lot and perhaps you can beat the devil himself.

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Pretty nice for such a small game. The UI could be a bit more polished as it’s a bit harsh on the eyes. But i really dig the animations and the sounds.

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I like the neon look and feel, can see a lot of effort went into the menus and rules etc!

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Good sounds and well made.

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Great entry

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A fun multi-dimensional noughts and crosses type game but over 4x4 grids.

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Not a fan of games which force you into full screen, make it optional.

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The glow effect was nice. As were the transition animations.

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I beat the AI pretty quickly, but the game continued, I didn’t play until the board was out of spaces, but assume that’s the idea?

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316351351,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"

This is surprisingly hard! So many angles to keep track of. Nice job!

\n","games":["The Unavoidable"]},{"typ":2,"at":316401134,"author":"Raf Mertens","url":"https://crazygames.com","twitter":"CrazyGamesCom","text":"

A nice take on tic-tac-toe. Adding those extra dimensions really makes it a challenge. Very well done.

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Cool variation of tic-tac-toe, I like the neon graphics style and the sounds are fitting to that. The way you visualised the 3d grid is also really cool.

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The game is actually really hard, its very difficult to keep track of all the possible winning lanes, but not in a bad way, I guess I just have to get good :)

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I was really impressed that you implemented 6 different AI difficulties, local mp AND online mp. Unfortunately no one was around online, when I tried.

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You could have made a little more effort to fit the death theme. Maybe had skull pieces etc. Right now it seems a little out of theme.

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Also I didnt like how the game sometimes forces fullscreen state, better leave that for the player to decide!

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Overall really great idea and execution, great job!

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Finding yourself in hell, you’ve one chance to save your soul - win a tic-tac-toe game. Easy, right? Except this one is played in 4 dimensions, and you must score 7 points to win.

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Ok, so the link to the theme this year is tenuous at best. Yet it really doesn’t matter because what has been packed into this single entry is quite something. Multiple levels of AI play, local two-player, and even online play! The graphics have a nice neon 3D look to them, the sounds fit the game well, and aside from forcing the browser to go fullscreen (never do this, devs, always make it an option), it all just worked really well.

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I managed to beat the Servant Imp AI, but I know full well that a higher-level AI would likely kick my butt, as there are just so many possible permutations to keep track of.

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Beautiful UI, but difficult to sometimes see where the pieces align up and down (z-axis). Well made AI.

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