Cell Backgammon is a project geared towards developing a strong backgammon player on the Playstation 3 hardware. Features of the current release include:

• Fully functional Backgammon game with all rules implemented
• Both a X window board display and a text based board display (screenshots below)
• Play against another human (using the same computer), a computer player,
  or have two computers play each other
• Board evaluation using the publicly available pubeval function
• Lists possible moves for each turn as well as the best move sequence (no look ahead yet)

Screenshots of the Cell Backgammon project running on a PS3.

Download

The source code is available for download under the terms of the MIT Open Source License. The tar ball includes a README file with an overview of the code organization, a Makefile to build the code on a PS3 with the latest Cell SDK available from developerWorks. The code was developed on a PS3 running Yellow Dog Linux.

Cell Backgammon Team