Connect4 AI

📝 Description

A simple Connect4 made with C++ and SFML for the window. Currently, only the Minimax with Alpha Beta Pruning is implemented. Maybe, in the future, I'll implement other algorithms if I want to (such as MCTS?).

🎥 Demo Minimax with Alpha Beta Pruning

💡 How to use

🪟 Windows

If you've a C/C++ IDE, you should already have cmake and gcc/g++. If not, then install CMake here and gcc/g++ here.

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/marcpinet/connect4-ai

2. Initialize the SFML submodule

git submodule update --init --recursive

3. Build with CMake

cmake -S . -B output -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -G"MinGW Makefiles"

4. Build the project using make inside the newly created output folder

cd output && make

5. Run the .exe

🐧 Linux / WSL

1. Run the holy command

sudo apt-get update

2. Install the following packages

sudo apt install libsfml-dev gdb cmake build-essential libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev freetype2-demos libudev-dev libx11-dev libxrandr-dev

3. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/marcpinet/connect4-ai

4. Initialize the SFML submodule

git submodule update --init --recursive

5. Build with CMake

cmake -S . -B output -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

6. Build the project using make inside the newly created output folder

cd output && cp -r ../assets assets && make

7. Run the file!

chmod u+x Connect4_AI && ./Connect4_AI

📄 Note

On Windows, it will probably be easier to run the project using an IDE such as CLion.

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