Baby steps.

After fleshing out the details of my robot game, I have come to realize that this is a rather ambitious project for a noob, so I am taking baby steps. First I will reformat the Tic Tac Toe engine in order to make it more universal, then I will make several projects just to gain practice. After which I will begin making my robot game.

I think I am talking to myself now, so I will withdraw posting here until I can get more followers.

Robots

We r gunna makin' robots that are gunna blow up stuff*makes sure Robotics teacher isn't looking*. Not really, sort of. I'M making a robot that's going to blow stuff up(Maybe), my robotics CLASS is making a robot for a contest. Guess who is one of the programmers.

Let's talk about the latter, first. Our class is participating in a robotics contest held by an organization named "BEST", ours is the Dallas branch. More information at Dallas-best.org. I am going to be learning C programming in order to do this. I already know basic c++ so the conversion shouldn't be too hard.


Now for the former, I just thought of a vague idea for a game, about robots( =]) I don't know much about it(I just know it will be about robots), but it will implement my tic tac toe engine(It will NOT be a tic tac toe clone with robots. XD)


That is all, for now.

Finished

Even though I may be talking to myself, I think I will post this anyways.

I have finally finished the tic tac toe engine.(psst, those aren't real scores.) and have learned quite a few things:(Thanks in no small part to the denizens of gamedev.net forums. Topic:
here )

-To completely clear an array, simply add the line: arrayName = new Array();
-You may clear display objects from the stage by putting their references in an array, and using similar syntax to this:

for(stuff){
removeChildAt(arrayName[stuff]);

}

Now I am asking myself: "Now what?" Perhaps I will be expanding upon this engine, adapting it for certain needs. Maybe do a little Project Euler in C++. For now, though, I am beaming out. Good bye.

Algorithms.....rithms...rithms...rithms....FAIL!!!

Well, my Tic tac toe game is nearly finished... Just one thing stands in my way...

Correction... two things. o.O


While picking up a screenshot to add to this post, I noticed that I deleted my entire visual display. The game itself still works, but I have to re-make the score board from scratch. >.< As you can see, the code that references those text boxes has been commented off.This is actually NOT a bit of drama that I have added to make my blog more interesting...Really...

Other than that, I simply have to write the code that checks if a win condition is present. This requires checking the grid. I have several solutions in mind, but I must stress that one of the things that can make or break a game is efficient code. This is why it is difficult to find the proper solution.
Anyways, I am pressed for time, so I will cut this short. Good bye.