Tri Tac Toe

Tri-Tac-Toe is a 1994 Macintosh take on classic tic-tac-toe by Seth Tabberer, published by Sandy Knoll Software. It dresses the familiar three-in-a-row grid in 3D-rendered playing pieces viewed from a tilted board perspective, giving the simple game a more substantial visual presence on color Macs.

Gameplay

The rules are unchanged from standard tic-tac-toe: claim three squares in a row on a 3x3 grid. The novelty is presentational -- pre-rendered 3D shapes for X and O sit on a perspective-tilted board rather than the usual flat glyphs.

Version 1.2 changes

The 1.2 update added an on-screen indicator showing whose turn it is, introduced a Human vs. Human mode alongside the original CPU opponent, and let each player choose their own piece set instead of using the previously fixed pairing.

Distribution

Tri-Tac-Toe shipped as a BinHex-encoded download via Info-Mac and Macintosh Garden. The author's release notes explicitly grant permission to redistribute the game on shareware CD-ROM compilations, which were a common channel for small Mac games of the era.

Author

Seth Tabberer (seth@tabberer.com) wrote and maintained the game; Sandy Knoll Software handled publishing and distribution.