Console Ayo 1.0.0.1

Console Ayo 1.0.0.1 brings users an interesting game which commonly played in Nigeria, West Africa. Is is classified as a mancala game due to the similarity of the equipment but played with it own distinct native rules.

The rules are actually very simple to learn but the game can become very engaging, with complex strategy, depending on the level of player. The essence of Console Ayo is the capture of the original rules and process of the game.

There is a handful of blogs on the internet that explain and demonstrate the game but unlike eastern and western mancala variations Ayo cannot be found rendered as a software application, until now that is.

Major Features:

1. AyoAPI and SDK
   • The Console Ayo program is a command-line application developed using the Ayo Application Programming Interface: AyoAPI, which is a dynamic link library with the core functionality required to develop the game in any .Net language. Console versions have been written in C# and VB.net and a WPF version for Windows as well.
     
2. Strategy Engine
   • The strategy engine enables you to load different tactical encapsulations to play against. Taking Ayo into the 21st century in this way, strategies can be pitted against strategy alongside the player vs player and player vs computer, the program vs program challenge is on, as the search for the Odu master of the game. Several strategies will ship with the version 1.0
3. A Living Record and Preservation
   • The beta Of console Ayo was released July 01, 2009 at download.com. It has since then been distributed throughout the cnet.com network. The beta version was released 'as is' from the development server as the most comprehensive encapsulation of the native yoruba Ayo game you can curently get anywhere.

• Version 1.0.0.1 now allow to use "the Chike Obi strategy".