A little game for the PB community

[Rodney Hicks]

I have posted a game in the source code forum.

The layout for the game was designed with PBForms.
DDT used throughout the game.

The game involves switching the colors of labels, and since it is the first game I ever wrote, I thought I'd share it.

Rod

[Elias Montoya]

Just a comment: The green and Yellow are VERY alike for the color blind people.

I would suggest: Purple, Red, Green and Blue.

[Rodney Hicks]

I was having trouble seeing the green no matter what it was beside.
I figured that anyone that wanted other colors could do a simple 'Find' and 'Replace All'.

Rod

[Brice Manuel]

Just a comment: The green and Yellow are VERY alike for the color blind people.

I would suggest: Purple, Red, Green and Blue.

Depending on the type of color blindness, those could be just as bad

[Michael Mattias]

=== USER SETUP ======

  Color 1      [     ]   <pick>
  Color 2      [     ]   <pick>
  Color 3      [     ]   <pick>
  Color 4      [     ]  <pick>

...
 ======
 LOCAL CC AS ChooseColor
 ,,,,
  iRet = ChooseColor (CC)
  IF ISTRUE iRet THEN
     UserChoice = CC.rgbResult
     ...

MCM

[Elias Montoya]

I was having trouble seeing the green no matter what it was beside.
I figured that anyone that wanted other colors could do a simple 'Find' and 'Replace All'.

Rod

I did, but there were several matches. I gave up. :P
Michael's suggestion is very good.

[Rodney Hicks]

The advantage of posting this for programmers is that they can adjust what they think needs adjusting. I was trying to keep it as simple as possible so those newer to PB might be able to follow it better.

However, there are several things that in hindsight I could have done differently. Like the dropping and the shifting of the colors. It would have been simpler for coding to have started at the bottom left instead of the top left. I should have been able to use 'ARRAY DELETE" as a filter to shift the colors, but I never even thought about it until I was finishing.

Something that came to me while coding this was that if there was some way that PBForms could make use of a FOR/NEXT loop there would have been a lot fewer lines of code. I suppose I could have done that myself but I wanted others to see that PBForms does a fine job when you let it, even if it doesn't use all the tools in the toolbox.

Another thing that occurred to me was that in a SELECT/CASE block when you use a range of values such as :

SELECT CASE AS LONG idvalue
CASE 100 to 200
....

that you cannot do

SELECT CASE AS LONG idvalue
CASE 100 to 200 STEP 4
...

It would have been handy.(Don't know that it should be on any wish list though)

Yes Michael's idea is a good one, but I never considered that color choices would be too important for programmers since they can adjust the code to their wishes.

Other than issuing a few exes to friends and family, this game is going no further since I really don't do games.

Rod

[Michael Mattias]

SELECT CASE AS LONG idvalue
   CASE 100 to 200 STEP 4

...It would have been handy.(Don't know that it should be on any wish list though

===>

SELECT CASE AS LONG idvalue
   CASE 100 TO 200
     IF idvalue MOD 4 = 0 
          yadda yadda
     END IF
   CASE....

(Also, I think you could have used arrays to eliminate many, many lines of sourcecode)

[Rodney Hicks]

I never even considered MOD for that, silly me.

Also, I think you could have used arrays to eliminate many, many lines of sourcecode

The ARRAY DELETE would have made them essential. And I really wish I'd gone that way, but since time was a wastin, I decided to post it the way I did. It would run a little faster but since someone playing the game is wasting time already, what's a little more time?

It got to be a case of "Once I get my mind made up, don't confuse me with the facts."

[Mel Bishop]

I'm not color blind so the colors are just fine for me.

I had a dream about that "stupid" game. Finished Level-1 and Level-2 wound up being a game of Tetris.

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Rod,

I tried running the game but nothing happens. The screen fills up with colored labels but nothing happens when clicking on them.

[Mel Bishop]

Rod,
...nothing happens...

Click the "New Game" button.

[Robert DeBolt]

Thanks, Rodney, for a neat game!

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Click the "New Game" button.

And is located where? I see no buttons.

Just looked and see where Buttons are added in "The Heap" dialog but they don't show on the screen. I had to run an "extra line deleter" utility I use to eliminate the extra lines added when C&P'ing from the Code window. Maybe that whacked something up.

[Michael Mattias]

I had to run an "extra line deleter" utility I use to eliminate the extra lines added when C&P'ing from the Code window.

Take a look at Adam Drake's "Clipboard Listener" in Source Code Forum. Very, very handy for copying posted code.

I'm not normally this effusive about stuff I find in the source code forum, but this program was really nicely thought out in terms of its user interface and ease of use.. definitely one of the better "designs" I've found. (I am big on design).

MCM

[Rodney Hicks]

Robert- you're welcome!
Michael-thank you for the kind words.
Alexander-thank you, now we all have two games.

Rod

[Rodney Hicks]

Finally broke a 1,000,000 on this game. Level 10. First time to that level as well.
I was at first a little disappointed in how tough the game was to advance levels, but since it took me, the perpetrator, 52 day to get to that score, I figure to get some good mileage from the game. I should have put an elapsed time feature in it.

Rod