On Dec 27, 3:02 pm, Martin <mar...@marcher.name> wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to get in touch with game development a bit. I'm not talking > about graphics but rather the game rules itself. Something > likehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#Rules, is there even a > general approach to that or should I just go sketch up my rules and > try to implement them. Being totally new to this topic I don't quite > now what to search for to get some decent results that let me make a > mental link between game rules and what the best practices are to > implement them in python (or any other programming language) > > thanks, > martin
Not my expertise but here are my $0.02. You are looking for ways to represent rules: buying a house is legal in such and such situation, and the formula for calculating its price is something. You want "predicates" such as InJail, OwnedBy, Costs. Costs( New York Ave, 200 ) InJail( player2 ) OwnedBy( St. Charles Ave, player4 ) LegalMove( rolldie ) LegalMove( sellhouse ) There are rule-based languages out there, such as Prolog. They are equally expressive as Python (you can write a Turing machine in them), but they are more convenient for representing rules in a prog. language. Predicates are more or less equivalent to positive assertions about something. NewYorkAve.cost= 200 player2.injail= True... rolldie.islegal= True Some predicates have to be calculated, rather than stored, but Python descriptors go easy on you for that. Someone else will have to tell you how rule-based programming measures up against object-oriented programming. <passes mic.> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
