Tic-Tac-Toe-WindowsXP

A Windows XP Era Inspired Tic-Tac-Toe Game. Implemented in Python using Tkinter, Travel Back to 2004!

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🖥️ Windows XP was the first exposure to a computer I ever got to experience.

At the young age of 3, I spent untold hours playing games on the computer at my grandma's house.
It was in these simple inbuilt games and internet explorer that I became interested in technology.

🔍 This Project's goal was to create a game I could have played as a child, while also helping devolp my skills as a coder.

🪟 My major priority in the development of this project was to copy the aesthetic and feel of the built-in applications that ran on Windows XP.

This meant gray buttons, recessed text, and pop-up windows for completions.
- The window size is locked at 500x500 pixels as well, since MineSweeper was unable to be resized.
I also implemented a color picker for the player, using a 16-color limit with an open pallette on the screen.
- This was inspired by early paint programs I would play with.

🐍 This code was written in Python.

This did lead to some problems getting it to run on my Windows XP Virtual Machine.
This was simply due to the age of Windows XP, which stopped getting official support on April 8, 2014.
I ended up having to install a user generated Python interpreter to get it to run in Windows XP, found on this old reddit thread:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/3tgi0t/python_35_x86_on_windows_xp/
- You will need to download and install additional .dll files for full compatibility, so please be patient if you want to run it on XP.
Of course, you can simply run this on your mordern OS without issue! [🙂]

🤖 The AI for the game uses the Minimax Algorithm.

This means the the AI attemps to minimize the loss via a worst case scenario.
Since Tic-Tac-Toe is a fairly simple game with only 9 possible moves, I have given the AI the data set of all 8 possible winning combinations.
It tries to choose moves based on boxes that it can link to win the game.

If the AI is chosen to go first in a single-player game, it will choose a box randomly and try to build a win based on combinations that include this box.
Here is a link to more information about the minimax algorithm:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax