Connect Four
krousty_bat
Member Posts: 48
He everyone.
I Started to learn this Week the amazing Gamesalad; I am more of an artist than a programmer, but by looking at tutorials, reading "How to's" and Forums, I slowly learning how this is working.
I started a "learning project" to start "simply": making a "Connect Four" game. I am pretty far and everything is working alright for a first try right now, but I'm getting in front of the main problems now: checking the colors of connected pieces to know if 4 colors are placed in a row to display a Player 1 or2 Win message.
I have right now to type of pieces, red or yellow
I was thinking about creating an internal attribute, an integer, for each of them called "Color_type".
Color_type would be = to 1 for all Red pieces
Color_type would be = to 2 for all Yellow pieces.
THe way I thought I would go through this, was that when my last Played Piece is placed (not moving anymore), I wanted to check if a similar Color_type (so same color) would be close vertically then Horizontaly then diagonally, AND if so, check from that one if so again, and increment an Attribute (actual_count) until it reach 4 in the same direction, otherwise, giving the second player a new chip to play.
Well, my problem is that I don't know HOW i can access from my actual played piece to the value of the one close by, so, I don't know how to compare the Color_type of two pieces for it's an "internal" value.
So Do I approach this the wrong way?
should I do this differently ?
Is it possible to do so ?
Thx for any help or ideas you might come with.
I Started to learn this Week the amazing Gamesalad; I am more of an artist than a programmer, but by looking at tutorials, reading "How to's" and Forums, I slowly learning how this is working.
I started a "learning project" to start "simply": making a "Connect Four" game. I am pretty far and everything is working alright for a first try right now, but I'm getting in front of the main problems now: checking the colors of connected pieces to know if 4 colors are placed in a row to display a Player 1 or2 Win message.
I have right now to type of pieces, red or yellow
I was thinking about creating an internal attribute, an integer, for each of them called "Color_type".
Color_type would be = to 1 for all Red pieces
Color_type would be = to 2 for all Yellow pieces.
THe way I thought I would go through this, was that when my last Played Piece is placed (not moving anymore), I wanted to check if a similar Color_type (so same color) would be close vertically then Horizontaly then diagonally, AND if so, check from that one if so again, and increment an Attribute (actual_count) until it reach 4 in the same direction, otherwise, giving the second player a new chip to play.
Well, my problem is that I don't know HOW i can access from my actual played piece to the value of the one close by, so, I don't know how to compare the Color_type of two pieces for it's an "internal" value.
So Do I approach this the wrong way?
should I do this differently ?
Is it possible to do so ?
Thx for any help or ideas you might come with.
Comments
Every time a colored piece is touching each other, it increment an internal attribute (counting_to_four).
so yellow coins start at zero, they will be at 1 both if they touch (same rule, on contact +1 on counting_to_four).
But then, let's say a third one on top of the two others is coming,
I will have something like
1
2
1
and a forth one
1
2
2
1
For the increment is only based on contacts, I can never have 4...
Or maybe, I can say "If 4 consecutive counting_to_four" >=6 then "You win"...
But how would I Add internal Attributes?
Or maybe, I can say on contact:
Change game.AdditionAttribute = Self.Counting_to_four + Game.AdditionAttribute
Then self.Counting_to_four = game.additionAttribute
so when the third piece is falling, I can get a
3
3
1
more complexe than it looks