The original Magicwand Software games site
Once I had decided to put the Checkers game on the internet in 2000, the next stage was to make a website. The domain magicwandsoft.com was available so I registered it and have kept it ever since.
Efforts to make money from the site came to nothing. Too few visitors to be of interest to advertisers. It never mattered, I just wanted people to play the game.
AI minimax algorithm written in C++. Graphics and sound used the Allegro games library, hacked to support DirectX 3.
Checkers itself is a narrow, deep game. There's an average of 8 possible moves per turn, so to play well the computer must look far ahead. That means
Originally developed using Microsoft Frontpage, it has been rewritten in MVC and C#.
No attempt has been made to make the website look modern or responsive.
This is what websites looked like 20 years ago.
A retro website for a retro game.