YAYG 2.0.0      

Game Help


This software is a Yahtzee game, using the classical rules of the game.
This game is a complete version and is totally free.

* play from 1 to 4 players (any of them may be computer players ), 
* switch graphical styles, 
* print game sheets, 
* choose your own color,
* see you progression's curve.

Many Thanks to :

- Coco , simply for the idea.
- Anne-Soph' for the good translations (bad translations probably have been done by myself).
- Christophe for the "Multi Yahtzee" game mode.





  Features :

Please note that YAYG before version 2.0.0 wasn't available in English, so the "New in v 2.0.0" part may be of no concern to you.

Feature	Description	New in v. 2.0.0
Computer players	You may play from 1 to 4 players. Any of these may be controlled by the computer.
Create Players	When creating a new player, you may select a personnalized color. Players' colors will appear in player's bar, and are used when drawing game's curves.
Sound Effects	You may switch sound effects on and off.
Selector button	This button lets you select or deselect all dices with only one click. This action doesn't roll the dices.
Change "Look and Feel"	This option lets you switch between different graphical styles. The available styles depend on your operating system.
Graph of  progression	At the end of a round, the top panel shows a graph of the progression of each player during the game, using their allocated colour.
Best  scores	A table shows the 50 last best scores. Click on “erase” to erase all the scores, and indicate if you wish to take into account scores from the computer or only scores from human players.
Tips	A window displaying a tip chosen randomly appears on startup.
Printing of game sheets	Do you want to play with real dices ? Then, print some scoreboards (4 per sheet ).
Slow motion game	The help  menu lets you watch a sample "slow-motion" game played by four computer players. This may help you see, how the computer chooses its dices to keep and its dices to reroll .
Multiple Yahtzee	If you select  the "Multiple Yahtzee" game mode, a player achieving the Yahtzee can replay immediately, provided that he/she scores into Yahtzee, and that the Yahtzee slot is not yet locked. Then, his/hers Yahtzee slot won't be locked, thus letting him/her score Yathzee multiple times, if he/she achieves it more than once. With this game mode, you can really get very high scores.

Requirements :

A screen resolution 1024 X 768 pixels is required.
Indeed, while the game would run well with a 800 X 600 screen resolution, some of the available "looks" will not
fit resolutions lower than 1024 X 768 .

In the Download page, several possible installations are available, depending on your platform.

At the moment full installations are only provided for MS Windows and Mac OS X.
Indeed, this game needs JRE 1.3 or JDK 1.3 from Sun Microsystems to run.
Windows users will find a complete installation (that already include JRE 1.3), while Mac OS X users already possess JRE 1.3 on their computer.

If you are running a Windows OS, and don't know whether you already have JRE 1.3 or not, please choose the "With VM" installation,
which will install needed components on your hard drive.

Note for Mac OS X users : As I still don't have any screen shots of YAYG with the "Aqua Look", I'd be glad to get some.
( a special YAYG update will be granted to the person )


People using other operating systems (say, UNIX / LINUX or other), will first have to download and install 
the appropriate JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) "1.3 or above " which can be found there : http://www.java.sun.com