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Play a game of connect five against your friend or the challenging AI.

Gomoku (also known as Connect Five or Pente™ — see Wikipedia) is a traditional and very popular game that is a lot of fun and easy to play for two players. All you need is a sheet of checkered paper, a pen and a friend, and you're ready to go. Your task is to get an unbroken row of five stones in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. As you play in turns, you will usually have to think of some nasty traps in order to win.

Gomoku for UIQ lets you play this game everywhere, no matter if you have got a sheet of paper, a pen or a friend near you. It allows playing both in single player mode against a challenging artificial intelligence as well as in two-player mode. Additionally, you can freely define the board size and activate the "pair check" option, which allows to capture enemy stones.

Symbian Academy

This game is one of the challenging exercises of the Symbian Academy training materials. They are provided free of charge to universities, which are part of the Symbian Academy program. Lecturers and students get access to the full source code as well as tasks to go through in order to learn more about Symbian OS development. In the case of the Gomoku game, the challenge is to write an additional plug-in with your own artificial intelligence, using Symbian's ECom framework.
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Quick Facts

Choose from several options, including "pair check" to capture enemy stones.

Compatibility

UIQ 3.x
Maturity level:
Full project

Developed by

Andreas Jakl
Developed for:
Symbian Academy

Published

March 2008

Price

Freeware

More Information

Please install both .sis-files.
Contact the developer or Symbian Academy for more information.

Download

Gomoku (v1.0, English) - Note: Currently does not work on the SonyEricsson P1i - expect an updated version in August.

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