Command line Mancala game and library written in C
The game backend is implemented in the Mancala library and the command line program provides a frontend. Consult the header file for details regarding the available function calls. Where expressions may seem unclear, the implementation is also commented.
Mancala is a strategy game in which pebbles are moved around a board to score points. Game rules can be found in the man page in the doc folder.
Mancala frontend and library available under GPLv3.
If you would like to contribute to the code base, please add a copyright line to the opening comments of any source files you modify. Please try to maintain the same coding conventions.
To use the library to implement a frontend, it must be kept in mind that the computerMove(MancalaBoard*, ComputerMoveData*) method should be called repeatedly should the computer obtain an extra turn. Because the frontend may need to display animations or otherwise react to the end of the computer's turn, a recursive algorithm is not implemented. The frontend must handle re-calling the method after displaying appropriate feedback to the user. In the command line frontend, this is implemented in the performComputerMove() method.
Please consult the provided frontend for more details regarding frontend implementation.