Tower Of Hanoi Game in C with Code

TOWER OF HANOI GAME IN C

5 Feb 2012, I thought to develop a game, Tower of Hanoi. But I had a problem; I didn’t know much about graphics programming in C. Since I had decided, I was not in a mood to drop this project only because of graphics. There are other ways to make a game, i.e text based game which uses ASCII characters to display game. Actually this isn’t my first text based game (I have a collection like Sokoban, Bollywood Film name GuessGame, MindReader, Tic Tac Toe (GUI,CUI both) and many other programs.) but the first one that I am sharing with you.

 

I hope you know about ‘Tower of Hanoi’ game and its rule. If not, then read it in brief.

In this game you are given with N number of discs and 3 towers; say A, B and C. These N discs are arranged in increasing order of their diameter from top to bottom. If all discs are in Tower A then your goal is to move all the discs in Tower C using auxiliary Tower B. Restrictions to play and win this game are

  1.)    To win this game you must place all the discs in Tower C.

  2.)    You cannot move a disc of larger diameter onto a disc of smaller diameter in any of the towers.

Features of my Tower of Hanoi game:

 

  1.       Supports upto 8 disks (limited to 8 because of limited screen width).

  2.       Allows you to play.

  3.       Move discs in animated way.

  4.       If you fail to solve a game, you can let this game to solve it for you.

  5.       Source code is available for learning purpose.

In this game I have used Stack data structure, which is not strictly implemented. At few places in code I have used stack like an array (i.e. fetched data without using pop function of stack). I have done it just for my convenience.

Screenshot of ‘Tower of Hanoi’ game. (Download zip)

Program when running

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