On 20 Jul 2005, at 03:19, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
Hello Malte,
Thanks for replying. And I'll take up your suggestion
of continuing this on the ArcadeEngine forums.
One more question here, though?
How would you like to create the maze? Randomly
(a bit hard) or from a set of template mazes?
Your "a bit hard" is surely "hair-tearing hard" for me,
so the templates route is likely quicker.
Yet, to follow up on your suggestion of assembling the
maze out of objects/buttons (like working with Lego?),
what do you mean by a "template"? A series of co-
ordinates? A pre-drawn maze?
Example:
You make your "maze area" out of a grid of buttons or rectangles. You
name the objects in some way so that its coordinates are
identifiable. For example, the top left button might be "b 1 1", the
one to the right "b 2 1", the one below that "b 2 2", and so on.
The path throuh the maze is created by setting the backcolor of the
appropriate buttons white (for example), while the other buttons are
colored black (for example). A template might conist of a series of
coordinates like this:
1 1,2 1,2 2,2 3,3 3,4 3,4 3,5 4, ..... etc,
You place the object to be moved (princess, mouse, shoe, whatever) on
the start square (b 1 1 in this case). Assuming navigation is done
with the arrow keys, when an arrow key is hit, you calculate the next
object the person wants to move to. Then check that this is a valid
place to move to. If so, move the princess, if not, make warning sound.
local sHere ##tracks the current location
on arrowKey pWhere
put sHere into tTempHere
switch pWhere
case up
subtract 1 from word 3 of tTempHere
break
## other cases here
end switch
if there is a button tTempHere and the backcolor of button
tTempHere is white then
put tTempHere into sHere
set the loc of image "princess" to the loc of button sHere
## make cute sound, perhaps
else
##make nasty sound
end if
end arrowKey
Is this the kind of thing you were thinkig of, Nicolas, or something
else entirely?
Cheers
Dave
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