Project Description

Boring Sudoku is Sudoku game, made for SFML-game programming tutorial. Feel free to download the source code to learn more about game programming.

Boring Sudoku: The Game

Yes, Sudoku is boring and made for bored people. Yet it is also a good game to learn game programming concept. I'm using this project to learn more about game design.

The concept that I'm going to explore is:

• Game state : How to create and use the state machine to represents each of game states (intro, menu, option, play state, high score, end credit)
• Tile / sprite drawing / animation
• Artificial Intelligence: DFS (Depth First Search) to solve Sudoku solution and creating a valid / solve-able Sudoku board

Prerequisites

You will need to download :

• SFML-2.1 library (http://sfml-dev.org/download/sfml/2.1/)
• Visual C++ 2012 Express for Windows Desktop (http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads#d-2012-express) or
• CodeLite (http://codelite.org/) and gcc / g++, if you are running Linux flavour, such as Ubuntu

I build the game both in Windows and Ubuntu Precise 12.04 environment. Take a look at the documentation on how to setup your PC / laptop for the game build.

You will also need to understand C++ (or at least C language). I'm not an expert in C++ myself, so if you know better solution for the code, please let me know ;-)

Screenshot

Before you dwell further into the code, here's the screenshot of the program
TODO: Capture the game screenshot and put it here

About SFML

SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.

With SFML, your application can compile and run out of the box on the most common operating systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and soon Android & iOS.