Game

[cbrams9]

Hi All,

Please will anyone be able to help me get this game working in VB?

Game

A red wildebeest is controlled by the player - it can move up, down, left, right, and the aim is to eat all the green grass, leaving red soil behind. The game ends when all the grass is successfully eaten. Unfortunately, the ground is unsafe, and holes - black squares - pop up every 4 moves, at a random position. The game also ends when the wildebeest falls into a hole.

• the game is played on a 10 by 10 area
• it should display a count of the number of moves, and of the number of holes created.
• I need to use a 2-dimensional array to hold details of the current state of the game, using characters to represent each square, as in

dim board(9,9) as string ' 0 to 9 - global

for row = 0 to 9
for col = 0 to 9
board(row,col) = "g" 'use g for grass
next
next

Thanks

[gavio]

This...

for row = 0 to 9
for col = 0 to 9
board(row,col) = "g" 'use g for grass
next 
next

...can be done withouth the double for next loop. index is always the same.

for row = 0 to 9
board(row,row) = "g" 'use g for grass
next

What is actually the problem?

[itsallgood]

Can i just make a suggestion man -- and i'm sure it wont have anything to do with what you want

Make the game in flash -- that way people will get to play it online, without downloading a suspisious ".exe" file.

Actionscript isnt too hard to learn, and its perfect for game makers, as your work can be played by anyone, no downloading.

[gavio]

That's true. VB6 is for all but for games

[Hack]

Moved to Games Programming

[Rich2189]

This...

for row = 0 to 9
for col = 0 to 9
board(row,col) = "g" 'use g for grass
next 
next

...can be done withouth the double for next loop. index is always the same.

for row = 0 to 9
board(row,row) = "g" 'use g for grass
next

What is actually the problem?

The second will only fill the diagonal with "g"'s. You still need the nested loops.

as for my advice http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showpo...96&postcount=3

[Jacob Roman]

I do have a decent tile engine within the Massive DX8 2D Tutorial in my sig in case you wanna take a peek.