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How would you tackle this project
Hello all,
My friends have asked that I try to write a turn based game in CF, focusing around player on player turn based matches in which each player chooses fighting moves to try and bring the others hit points down to zero. Very similar to facebook wrestling for those of you who may know that. I have the whole framework up for everything besides the actual fighting (choosing moves, fighting styles, buying items, scheduling fights and so on is done). I'm having a bit of a hard time thinking of a good way to accomplish a turn based stat calculate that provides the same results to both clients when random variables (such as odd's of blocking, dodging etc) are involved.
I was thinking of having on page where the user chooses what moves they want to use (moves will be sent in groups of three, such as kick, kick block, or punch, kick, counter, etc) and those move choices are then sent to a page that calulates if they succeed or not, and the results are posted to a database. Once they results are posted, the opposing player sees the results via an ajax page that refreshes every few seconds. The problem is, the calculate page needs to know what both players did before it can calculate anything, such as say player one chose kick, block punch, and player two chose block, kick, kick, the calculation page needs to know that player 2 blocked player 1's kick before it can try to calculate damage done and such.
I know this sounds like a dumb goofy project, but hey, why not have some fun. Take a break from thinking business code for a second and have some fun helping a dude make a game. If you are interested and want to see what I have so far, please visit www.digitalswordsmen.com/pit_fighter
Let me know what you think and post any ideas/suggestions you might have. Thanks!
My friends have asked that I try to write a turn based game in CF, focusing around player on player turn based matches in which each player chooses fighting moves to try and bring the others hit points down to zero. Very similar to facebook wrestling for those of you who may know that. I have the whole framework up for everything besides the actual fighting (choosing moves, fighting styles, buying items, scheduling fights and so on is done). I'm having a bit of a hard time thinking of a good way to accomplish a turn based stat calculate that provides the same results to both clients when random variables (such as odd's of blocking, dodging etc) are involved.
I was thinking of having on page where the user chooses what moves they want to use (moves will be sent in groups of three, such as kick, kick block, or punch, kick, counter, etc) and those move choices are then sent to a page that calulates if they succeed or not, and the results are posted to a database. Once they results are posted, the opposing player sees the results via an ajax page that refreshes every few seconds. The problem is, the calculate page needs to know what both players did before it can calculate anything, such as say player one chose kick, block punch, and player two chose block, kick, kick, the calculation page needs to know that player 2 blocked player 1's kick before it can try to calculate damage done and such.
I know this sounds like a dumb goofy project, but hey, why not have some fun. Take a break from thinking business code for a second and have some fun helping a dude make a game. If you are interested and want to see what I have so far, please visit www.digitalswordsmen.com/pit_fighter
Let me know what you think and post any ideas/suggestions you might have. Thanks!
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