2-6 player game help
I have to make a text based game for 2-6 players that simulates the roll of die by
generating a random number then
- asks player1 a question,
- asks the user if the question was answered correctly
- moves the representation of player1 across a board if the answer was correct
- and begins the process again for player 2, and so on.
I have written a methods to get the number of players, to generate the dice roll and another to access a random question from the bank of questions and these work fine. Now I am ready to make the representation of the board and I do not know how to proceed.
The suggested output is:
(before any dice rolls)
Player1
[x][][][][][][][][][][][][]
Player2
[x][][][][][][][][][][][][]
player3
[x][][][][][][][][][][][][]
Question here
Was question answered correctly(y/n)
y
(after roll and correct answer for player1)
player 1 rolled a 3
Player1
[][][][x][][][][][][][][][]
Player2
[x][][][][][][][][][][][][]
player3
[x][][][][][][][][][][][][]
I have two questions - how to move from one player to the next after each question and how to best represent the board? This is for class so I am not looking for the code just suggestions on how to proceed.
Thanks
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lsjgha] at [2007-11-26 23:39:52]
And you can use a variable, like currentPlayer, to store the current player. Suppose there are three players and player 2 is currently playing. Does modulo 3 say anything to you? Because you could add one to currentPlayer (mod 3) each time the next player has to play.
You could update this variable by doing: currentPlayer = currentPlayer % 3 + 1. This will keep the variable in the 1 - 3 range all the time and you can check that variable to see which player is currently playing.
> I'd represent the board by a length (number of positions) and for each >player, the current position. Suppose the length is n and the current >position for a player is x, then you can generate the board by first >placing (x-1) the "[]" part, then a "[x]" and then (n - x) times "[]".
And you can use a variable, like currentPlayer, to
> store the current player. Suppose there are three
> players and player 2 is currently playing. Does
> modulo 3 say anything to you? Because you could add
> one to currentPlayer (mod 3) each time the next
> player has to play.
>
> You could update this variable by doing:
> currentPlayer = currentPlayer % 3 + 1. This will keep
> the variable in the 1 - 3 range all the time and you
> can check that variable to see which player is
> currently playing.
modulo 3 means nothing to me. I googled it and got more maths than I am able for :) this is a really basic course so the answer needs to be basic too. When you talked about length and position for each player did you mean that I should make an array for each player? So I could have all the possible positions, then add each dice roll and then something like
if totalDiceRoll = x
System.out.println(player1Array[x])
would this be the right direction to go in?
Thanks
lsjgha at 2007-7-11 15:06:01 >
Well, I assume you simply want to print this on the screen right: [][][][x][][][][][][][][][] ? Why would you need an array to store that? Because to create that String, all you need to know is the length (the number of times you need to print a []) and the position of the player (where to print the x). For example, try the following:
String playerOneBoard = "";
int length = 10;
int positionPlayerOne = 3;
for (int i = 1; i <= length; i++) {
if (i != positionPlayerOne) {
playerOneBoard += "[]";
} else {
playerOneBoard += "[x]";
}
}
System.out.println(playerOneBoard);
You could store the positions of the players in an array if you want.
