Help on game

[Ghassan]

hFor all those experienced big brain Action gurus:
I have a game, I don’t what’s it called in English, but the main idea that there’s 6x7 (42) blocks that should be filled with orange (the computer), or blue (the user), now who ever fills 4 blocks to the side of each other horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally will win, see:
http://www.gystudio.com/show/capture.html
This is what I got to so far:
http://www.gystudio.com/show/4wins.html
And here’s the fla:
http://www.gystudio.com/files/4wins.zip
I could make it that when click on blue and select block become blue, which is very basic, here’s what I couldn’t do:
1. The computer should be working on two things at the same time; making 4 oranges blocks so he could win, and trying to put oranges blocks on my way whenever I make three blocks, so I won’t win.
2. Whenever a player (me or the computer) fills 4 blocks with the same color to the side of each other horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally, the player wins.

When I first started it I thought it going to be easy, but things started to become more complicated then I thought, I know there’s Arrays involved in it, but I don’t know how.
Please I need this ASAP, actually the deadline was suppose to be today, but I think I can extend it, I’m a freelancer you see.


Ghassan Yonis

[Ghassan]

help any one, there must be someone who know something that could help, plesae..

[snapple]

Here is a fully functioning game of noughts and crosses (from a certain flash magazine that i am not going to mention the name of) - it involves two users and can decide winners.

It should include a lot of what you need, the correct vars to decide winners and the vars to decide whos go it is.

This should be a big help for a game like yours. You can begin to see that you can change the vars to 'currentColor = "orange" and otherColor = "blue" etc, etc.

Try not to panic - break your task donw into stages:

1) get the users clicks to represent either orange or blue.
2) get it to decide winner (even if its a simple vertical line to start with)
3) build on that basic functionality - expand it peice by peice.

don't try and tackle everything at once, stay calm and break down the copde (theres not a lot there)

//OK - the fla is too big for some reason, i think it's their way of telling me i should not be sharing it, because as a swf its only 1kb - so if you want it, i can mail it to you

Actually sod it - heres your file, slightly modified - this should get things going for you:

snapple

[snapple]

feck sorry, forgot the file - you can begin to see how things can be modified, you can use mulitdimensional arrays to 'hold' the grid for the game and then check to see if someone is a winner. I know you wanted to play against the computer, but that can be done afterwards, ontop of the fact that its beyond my thinking/ability at the moment.

[Ghassan]

Thanx alot, I haven't seen the fla yet becuase I don't have flash here were I'm talking from, thanx again for repling and I hope this works. The main problem is to get the computer player to work on two tasks at the same time; making sequence of four orange blocks, and tring to cut the way on the humen player. if I don't got this by tommorow then it's over. Thanx again for repling man.:D