A few months ago, when I was down over not having released any software for a long time. So I set out to write a game in .Net because the problem was interesting and because I wanted to learn something about WinForms. The result is Cameo.
This game is a long way from being finished. The link is to a page with the rules and my to do list. My main block right now is that I don't know anything about game playing algorithims, so I need to read up on that before I can get the computer player working. I also need to implement a dictionary so that the game can judge legal words; right now it's all on the honor system. I'd like to be able to access an online dictionary, but I don't want to scrape HTML. SOAP, anyone? (I tried the google spell checker, but it doesn't work well enough as a dictionary). Basically, all I need is to be able to distinguish if a word is not a proper noun, abbreviation, or acronym; I don't need to know the meaning of the word.