noughts-and-crosses

Inspiration

Simple grid based board games, the sponsors (Twilio).

What it does

Uses Twilio to listen for a text message, then calls the game code from Google Cloud Functions.

How we built it

Programmed the cloud function using python, with the state of the game stored in a .json within a cloud storage bucket. Twilio sends a HTTP request to the cloud function which triggers the execution and provides the player's move.

Challenges we ran into

Storing the game state correctly, learning how to use Twilio correctly

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the project working in under 10 hours (including sleeping time)

What we learned

Using GCP and Twilio, python programming was new to Katie,

What's next for noughts-and-crosses

Multiplayer!

Built With

Submitted to

HackTheMidlands4.0

Created by

I set up the framework for receiving a SMS with Google Cloud Functions, as well as storing the current state of the game board. Also sends messages back to the user with the game board and any updates relating to a victory.

jac0bwilson Wilson
This was my first time using python. I create three methods. The first was an AI for the game (included a lot of if statements). The second was to check if the game had been won ,and who by (more if statements!). The third was a method to generate a string of the board which we could send via twilio to the player.

Katie Midgley
Natalie Smith

Updates

jac0bwilson Wilson started this project — Oct 27, 2019 06:07 AM EDT

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