Exo Extreme Naughts and Crosses

Goal - Implement a large-scale multiplayer Extreme Naughts and Crosses (EXO) game for online play

Design Notes

Cell Addressing

The current goal is to have arbitrary-sized fields of play, as long as they are square, due to this addressing the exact cell and its game state is important to do efficiently.

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A standard EXO board

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