
      *** OpenKropki - an open-source 'kropki' implementation ***
                   http://openkropki.sourceforge.net


=== Introduction =============================================================

OpenKropki is an open-source implementation of the 'kropki' game.

'Kropki' is a pen & paper game that was quite popular in Poland (kropki),
Russia (точки), Czechoslovakia (židi), Ukraine (крапки) and a few other
eastern European countries. The game's name translates simply as 'dots'.

The concept is similar to Go, although it had to be adapted for on-paper
gameplay:

  * each player take turns into putting a new dot on the field.
  * when a player manages to put his dots all around a group of enemy dots, he
    creates a 'base', capturing the enemy's dots that lie inside.
  * a base cannot be trespassed by the enemy, but it can be captured.
  * the game ends when there is no place left on the field: the player that
    captured the highest number of enemy dots wins.


=== Controls =================================================================

OpenKropki is mouse-operated:
 - click on a field (lines intersection) to put your dot
 - scroll up/down to increase/decrease the zoom
 - middle-click to reset zoom to its default value
 - click and drag the mouse to sweep over the playfield
 - right-click recenters the playfield around the last move

Press ESC at any time to go back to main menu.


=== Contact ==================================================================

Wanna get in touch? You'll find pointers how to do so on my homepage:
http://mateusz.viste.fr


=== History ==================================================================

The 'kropki' (Tochki) game was presumably born because of the widespread
popularity of Go in the Soviet Union during the '70. Difficulties associated
with the lack of specific equipment, as well as the complexity and ambiguity
of some rules of Go, led to an adaptation of Go to be played on paper. Given
the abundance of variations of the new game and its almost simultaneous wide
distribution across the USSR, this process most probably took place
spontaneously and did not have a single center.


=== MIT License ==============================================================

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