E-Othello: The development of an electronic-hardware version of traditional Othello board game

• Published in: ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Main Author: Rozani I.A.; Abidin A.F.Z.; Mohd S.K.; Nizam M.N.M.; Azahar A.H.; Harun M.H.; Yusoff Z.M.; Hassan K.K.; Shah B.N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Research Publishing Network 2019
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062587832&partnerID=40&md5=c86245235bff0ec6b6179aeddbe07741

Othello is a traditional game that can be trace back to year 1830s where the objective of the game is to have own pieces occupied the board. The board game has been declining rapidly as gaming technology getting more advances. This is because video games are preferred by the Gen-Z because it is more interactive. There are many electronic-software versions of this board game but the game popularity is still declining as the electronic-software version is not interactive and just a conversion of the board game. The objective of the development of electronic-hardware based of this board game is to give a twist of the old board game in which the user can have the feeling of playing a hardware board game and yet experienced the interactive of an electronic version (such as playing on smartphone app). The proposed schematic and flowchart are explained concisely. The simulation and actual results are presented and the finding shows that the EOTHELLO performs as expected. © 2006-2019 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).