A bit confused on how to begin.

Well I'll post you the whole thing if you would like:

1.Treasure Island:This project involves the creation of a simulation game. In this case, the player is marooned on the island. There will be a 10 X 10 grid of squares which will be randomly filled with mountains, caves, cliffs, forest, an oak tree and treasure. (See the sample screen below) The objective is to explore the island to find the treasure without falling into the sea and drowning or being eaten by sharks.

The player can move north, south, east or west one square at a time with a 75% chance of moving into the direction and a 25% chance of moving to a square one side or the other of the location (to simulate using a bad compass). After each move, a description of the location will be printed and a grid location will be filled in. A fall into the ocean represents a 30% chance of drowning and a 10% chance of being eaten by sharks.

The treasure is located one square to the south of the oak tree. The grid is filled in semi-randomly with forest representing 20 connected squares; mountains 10 connected squares; caves in three individual squares; cliffs in three groups of three; oak tree one square and ocean - ALL outside squares plus 10 connected squares. The oak tree must be placed far enough north to allow a cave to be placed south of it. The treasure is located in this cave. When the player finds this cave the game ends.

The game begins with the player randomly placed in the grid either on land or in the sea and the rest of the map remains blank. As the player moves, the squares are filled in with symbols representing the terrain traversed. With each move, a random number between 1 and 100 is chosen. If the value is between 1 and 74 the player moves to the square, 75 and 87 the player moves to one side of the location and 88 and 100 the player goes to the other side. Descriptions are printed with IF commands as the player moves through different squares of the grid (慪ou are in deep forest.? 慪ou fall into the ocean.? 慚ountains surround you? When the player falls into the ocean another random number between 1 and 100 is chosen. If the value is between 1 and 29 the player drowns. If it is between 30 and 39, the player is eaten by sharks. Otherwise the player swims to shore and continues.

AlanG4lyfea at 2007-7-12 19:25:13 >

String sea = "S";

String forest = "F";

String cave = "C";

String clifss = "V";

String mountains = "M";

String oak = "O";

String board [] [] = new String [10] [10]; // create 100 integers

board [0] [0] = sea;

board [0] [1] = sea;

board [0] [2] = sea;

Should I do something like that for each square on the board? (I know I can use a loop for some of it though)

AlanG4lyfea at 2007-7-12 19:25:13 >

> I suppose you could start with the board all SEA, and

> then you sprinkle in the forest etc... or you could

> start with the board all nulls, and you make the

> remaining null cells SEA after filling in the forest

> and mountains, etc...

So would you think I'd be best to do all of those individually? And is there a command to fill all the nulls?

AlanG4lyfea at 2007-7-12 19:25:13 >