Advice for movement of an actor on a boardgame style map
jasdip
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Hi,
I have a project which I am looking at undertaking with GS, however, before I get to heavily invested in it I want to try and address a function that I would like to appear in the game but I am unsure as to the best way to execute it or whether it can be achieved efficiently.
I am looking at creating a board game style ipad game which hasa a map that is split into areas, all up there are about 60 or so areas.
An actor will move around a map, the actor will be restricted to 2 movement points per turn, which basically means that the actor can only move up to 2 areas per turn, the areas the actor will be able to move to will need to be adjacent to the area that actor is in at the time.
What I would like to achieve is to highlight the map areas the actor can move to firstly if he has two movement points available and then secondly if he has 1 movement point available.
My initial thoughts were to have each map area as an individual actor, then allocate each actor a self attribute giving a unique id.
I was then going to store each id in a table along with the ids that are also adjacent to it, therefore, for each area you may have between 5-8 records in a table, approximately 250-300 records all up. This would at least enable me to identify related adjacent map areas.
Then I wanted to look at how I best use the stored data in the table, this is where I have come a little unstuck, any advice on what I am trying to achieve and how I should achieve it would be appreciated.
regards
Jason
I have a project which I am looking at undertaking with GS, however, before I get to heavily invested in it I want to try and address a function that I would like to appear in the game but I am unsure as to the best way to execute it or whether it can be achieved efficiently.
I am looking at creating a board game style ipad game which hasa a map that is split into areas, all up there are about 60 or so areas.
An actor will move around a map, the actor will be restricted to 2 movement points per turn, which basically means that the actor can only move up to 2 areas per turn, the areas the actor will be able to move to will need to be adjacent to the area that actor is in at the time.
What I would like to achieve is to highlight the map areas the actor can move to firstly if he has two movement points available and then secondly if he has 1 movement point available.
My initial thoughts were to have each map area as an individual actor, then allocate each actor a self attribute giving a unique id.
I was then going to store each id in a table along with the ids that are also adjacent to it, therefore, for each area you may have between 5-8 records in a table, approximately 250-300 records all up. This would at least enable me to identify related adjacent map areas.
Then I wanted to look at how I best use the stored data in the table, this is where I have come a little unstuck, any advice on what I am trying to achieve and how I should achieve it would be appreciated.
regards
Jason
Comments
believe you may be making this type of play more difficult than need be
Example:
what values does game have to store for activating the actors behaviors?
… where the player is: gameAttributes: playerX and playerY
… where the player has selected to move: gameAttributes: moveX and moveY
… is the selectedMove within the range: gameAttribute: moveRange
… when to do a move: gameAttribute: move?
===
on playerPieceActor:
-constrainAttributes: game for playerX/Y to self.Position.X/Y
Rule: when
Attribute: game.Move?
-changeAttributes: self.Position.X/Y To: moveX/Y
-changeAttribute: game.Move? To: false
===
on tile actors that are blank … i.e. can accept playerMove
Rules: when
Event: touch is pressed
Attribute: game.moveRange ≥ magnitude(game.moveX-self.Position.X,gameY stuff )
-changeAttributes: game.moveX/Y To: self.Positions.X/Y
-changeAttribute: game.move? To: true
===
think of: when action should occur … and what those actions should be