Zillions of Games
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| Developer(s) | Zillions Development Corp. |
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| Stable release |
2.0.1 / 2003
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | General game playing |
| Website | www |
Zillions of Games is a commercial general game playing system developed by Jeff Mallett and Mark Lefler in 1998. The game rules are specified with S-expressions, Zillions rule language. It was designed to handle mostly abstract strategy board games or puzzles. After parsing the rules of the game, the system's artificial intelligence can automatically play one or more players. It treats puzzles as solitaire games and its AI can be used to solve them.
The scripting language of Zillions-of-Games uses S-expressions. The rules are stored in a text file with extension ".zrf" (zillions rules file). The users can create their own ZRF-files and make the AI of Zillions-of-Games play their newly created game.
Here is an example of rules for Tic-tac-toe (copyright by Zillions Development Inc.):
The result of loading of this ZRF into Zillions-of-Games and playing against the computer is shown in screenshot at right.
The definition of games usually contains the following pattern:
Zillions of Games is so called because of its potential to play a very large number of user-programmed games. The system is shipped with over 300 games and puzzles. These include a lot of popular board games, such as Alquerque, Fox and geese, Go, Gomoku, Jungle, Halma, Nim, Nine Men's Morris, Reversi, Tafl and Tic-tac-toe. The package includes many checkers variants, for example Russian and Turkish Checkers. Besides standard FIDE chess, Zillions of Games contains many national chess variants such as shogi, xiangqi, janggi, as well as a number of popular chess variants like Ultima, Extinction chess, Losing Chess, shatranj, Berolina chess, Grand chess and others. It also include some puzzles, such as 15-Puzzle, Towers of Hanoi, eight queens, and a variety of Solitaires.
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