Dynamic Languages Shootout / OOP 2008

The german magazine JavaSpektrum organized the "Dynamic Languages Shootout" contest for the OOP 2008 conference. The task was the creation of a computer game similiar to Scrabble in a dynamically typed programming language.

I used Groovy and Grails and came 6th place.

Screenshots

The screenshots shown on this page are from the version 1.1, which is a bug fixed and enhanced version of the original code.

The program comes with dictionaries and user interfaces for english and german. Other languages can be added easily.

Shootout game in a shell Shootout game on Mac OS X Shootout game on Grails

Documentation

There is extensive documentation available in german. Sorry, but i did not had the time to translate it into english and a requirement of the competition was to write the documentation in german.

Download

There are the following packages available. They have to be used with Groovy 1.5.6 and Grails 1.0.3.

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