7Colors is an old game first developped by I don't remember which company ;-). It's a strategy game where the aim is to conquier at least 50% of the diamonds of the board.
7Colors is freeware. This means that you do not have anything to pay to use it. Its sources are also provided, so you can have a look at them and reuse some ideas in the code. The sources are distributed as an eMbedded Visual C++ Project and were developped with Microsoft eMbedded Tools.
This program is provided without any warranties. This means that I won't be responsible in any case of whatever happens if you use it. I also have no obligation to change, fix, upgrade or whatever 7Colors. This program is gracefully provided to who wants and need it, in anycase I remain the author, with the right to do whatever I want with it.
Basically, it's a 2 players game in which each player play after each other in turn by chosing a color amonst those available with the buttons in the lower part of the screen. Every diamond adjacent (up-down-left-right, i.e 4-connected) to some diamonds the player already have becomes the player's property and get his color. So to make the game more difficult, of course at one turn, a player is not allowed to choose the color he is already, and the color his opponent is currently. That's the reason why some color buttons are disabled with a small signal inside. The game ends when one of the players get 50% or more of the board.
The starting locations at the beginning of the game are always the same: first player at the bottom left, and second player at the upper right corners of the board. In order to show whose turn it is to play, the starting corner diamond of the player who must play is splitted with a white part.
It is possible to configure the game via the options menu. You can set the players names, wether you want to play to humans or one human against the computer, and then the board size. Please, note that setting the options aborts the current game.
I will stay open to any suggestion, bug report, congratulation, fund donnations ;-) So if you want to reach me, you can try my email address: fpessaux@cs.stevens-tech.edu.
I hope this little piece of software will be useful and you will enjoy it !... Cheers,
-- Francois