Game

[vb2007]

How do you create a 2 player connect four game for visual basic ?

[drivenbywhat]

Are you doing this for fun, a class or what? I think it involves making an algorithm to check all the possibilities of a connect 4 win. You can search for connect 4 source code examples on google but most are made in java or c. Besides the algorithm, the gui would be the easier part. I would make labels for the ?x? # of squares. Then two buttons, player1 & player2. When player1 is clicked, disable the button. When you click on a label, have it check the button status. If it's disabled then you would have the color background change to that player's color. As far as checking to see if there is a "piece" underneath the column to make sure someone doesn't put a piece on the top when there is no piece on the bottom for it, I would do an if/then or select case to check if the color of the label is set or blank. Best bet would be to make the labels an array so it would cut down on coding lines.

[Paul M]

Is this gonna be an online kind of multi player or done on the one computer? If it is online then you will need to use the winsock control.

[vb2007]

The game is going to be multiplayer on one computer, how do I start of the code?

[Keithuk]

I have code but do a search on PSC

[Hack]

Moved to Games programming

[vb2007]

When I click the checker piece, it comes somewhere else on the form, how do i position it to a specific place?

[singularis]

Move it to the mouse coordinates?

On the mouse click event, two of the parameters specify X and Y repectively:

Private Sub Form_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
checker.Left = X
checker.Top = Y
End Sub