unbeatable_game | : game_die : Unbeatable tic-tac-toe game

unbeatable_game is a JavaScript library. unbeatable_game has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

all of the game logic is on the front-end (encapsulated in javascript objects with a few standalone functions), which makes the ai response feel really snappy. when the game is over, an ajax request is sent out to report the game’s result. the first thing i did was write the little server side logic i needed, and begin organizing my javascript objects in a way that i thought made sense. after i got to a point where i could play tic-tac-toe against a really, really stupid ai, i dove into making it smarter. figuring out how the ai should pick its next move was actually relatively easy. after researching the problem, it became clear that the [minimax algorithm] was the best route (more resources i used are listed below). in a nutshell, minimax creates all possible game states that could arise from the current one, up to a certain depth (one move ahead? two moves ahead?). then, each possible game state is scored based on a rough heuristic (a win for the ai has the highest score, letting the player win has the lowest score, etc.). from there, picking the