Implementing an intelligent version of the classical sliding-puzzle game for unix terminals using Golang's concurrency primitives

TL;DR

This paper presents an implementation of an intelligent sliding-puzzle game for UNIX terminals using Go's concurrency features, incorporating a concurrent A* algorithm for solving and real-time notifications for enhanced user interaction.

Contribution

It introduces a cross-platform terminal-based sliding-puzzle game with an integrated concurrent A* solver and real-time notifications, leveraging Go's concurrency primitives for efficiency.

Findings

The game runs effectively on multiple operating systems.

The concurrent A* algorithm provides efficient puzzle solving.

Real-time notifications enhance user experience.

Abstract

An intelligent version of the sliding-puzzle game is developed using the new Go programming language, which uses a concurrent version of the A* Informed Search Algorithm to power solver-bot that runs in the background. The game runs in computer system's terminals. Mainly, it was developed for UNIX-type systems but it works pretty well in nearly all the operating systems because of cross-platform compatibility of the programming language used. The game uses language's concurrency primitives to simplify most of the hefty parts of the game. A real-time notification delivery architecture is developed using language's built-in concurrency support, which performs similar to event based context aware invocations like we see on the web platform.