Best way to make a board game (C# object oriented)

[TommyTwommy]

I'm making a board game but I couldn't find a name for it in english. On english wikipedia it was: Mensh argere dich nicht. Or something like that. Literal translation would be man, don't be mad/angry.

 

Anyways I won't explain the rules, I'll just say you have 4 players and each player has 4 pawns. Now that automatically means objects. Now I don't know what is the best way to do it.

 

class Game that contains class Players that contains 4 Player and each player contains 4 pawns. Pawns..

 

I've never gotten too deep into objects oriented programming and would really like to. Is there someone who has enough times to write just a few rows that I can work with? Just empty classes.

[Mr_KoKa]

Its "Ludo" and don't do Players class, instead do Player and create as many instances of Player class as you need, same for pawns.

[TommyTwommy]

52 minutes ago, Mr_KoKa said:

Its "Ludo" and don't do Players class, instead do Player and create as many instances of Player class as you need, same for pawns.

Yes I did do that, now each player contains 4 ints which are pawns.. And a bunch of functions.

 

How can I make the 4 ints loopable?

 

For exmaple I want to loop through them using a for each loop..

 

What type of object container is loopable?

 

Foreach(int pawn in Pawns)

{

}

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, berny22 said:

Yes I did do that, now each player contains 4 ints which are pawns.. And a bunch of functions.

 

How can I make the 4 ints loopable?

 

For exmaple I want to loop through them using a for each loop..

 

What type of object container is loopable?

 

Foreach(int pawn in Pawns)

{

}

 

 

 

make an array.

 

int[] players = new int[5];
players[0] = 1;
players[1] = 2;
players[2] = 3;
players[3] = 4;
for(int i = 0; i < (players.Length-1); i++){
    Console.WriteLine(players[i]);
            
}

 

though after reading your post you need array in arrays  one sec

 

edit. So after thinking you will need to put a dictionary in each array then loop the array. My step son is being sick* just now now so can no longer work a sample for you.

 

 

*like projectile vomiting, going to be a long night.

[TommyTwommy]

20 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

make an array.

 

int[] players = new int[5];
players[0] = 1;
players[1] = 2;
players[2] = 3;
players[3] = 4;
for(int i = 0; i < (players.Length-1); i++){
    Console.WriteLine(players[i]);
            
}

 

though after reading your post you need array in arrays  one sec

 

edit. So after thinking you will need to put a dictionary in each array then loop the array. My step son is being sick* just now now so can no longer work a sample for you.

 

 

*like projectile vomiting, going to be a long night.

I know about arrays and lists, but in this specific case I would like to avoid using them. Is there any other way? Where they can all be integers for themselves in another loopable object(container)

[Mr_KoKa]

You probably could do that by implementing some interfaces like IEnumerable, but Is there a good reason to ditch on existing array mechanics and create new one, probably not as good or even buggy?

[vorticalbox]

46 minutes ago, berny22 said:

I know about arrays and lists, but in this specific case I would like to avoid using them. Is there any other way? Where they can all be integers for themselves in another loopable object(container)

why would you want to avoid them?

 

The way I would do this is to have an array and each item be a dictionary with "p1_pawn" = Something then access it with players[0]["p1_pawn"].

 

as koka posted you could make a class for players which would avoid using arrays. Once I'm back on my pc ill make a python sample as I know that much better.

 

 

[vorticalbox]

class player:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
        self.pawns = [0,1,2,3,4]

#main
player1 = player('jack')
print(player1.name)
for i in range(len(player1.pawns)): print("pawn {0} int : {1}".format(i, player1.pawns[i]))

player2 = player('jill')
print(player2.name)
for i in range(len(player1.pawns)): print("pawn {0} int : {1}".format(i, player1.pawns[i]))

player1.pawns[0] = 4
print("player {0} pawn1 = {1}".format(player1.name,player1.pawns[0]))

output

jack
pawn 0 int : 0
pawn 1 int : 1
pawn 2 int : 2
pawn 3 int : 3
pawn 4 int : 4
jill
pawn 0 int : 0
pawn 1 int : 1
pawn 2 int : 2
pawn 3 int : 3
pawn 4 int : 4
player jack pawn1 = 4