Rush Hour

[cyanophycean314]

Well, as a more long term project and for the Board Game Member Guild  , I think I'm going to work on Rush hour, based on the board game by ThinkFun.

For wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Hour_%28board_game%29.

Right now I have a problem with tables. The levels are stored as tables with the positions of the cars and stuff. Basically, is there any equivalence of the python statement table2 = table1[:]? Basically, that copies the entire table1 to table2, but they no longer have the same reference. Is there any Lua idiom for that?

Oh, and I need some more levels. I plan on having at least 50 levels, so any level contributions are welcome! I could also port the 40 original levels, but I don't own the original version.

And a primitive screenie

Spoiler for Hidden:

Edit: Oh yeah, the colors work fine enough on grayscale, I'll probably change to sprites later on.

EDIT: Final version is out! Find it here.
Updated Screenie

[Jim Bauwens]

Nice
Are you planning on using TI-Images?
If you are, I can help you with the images (as I already had a part for my clone..).

Edit:
for the table copying, you can check out BetterLuaApi from Adriweb.
It contains some table copy functions
https://github.com/adriweb/BetterLuaAPI-for-TI-Nspire/blob/master/BetterLuaAPI.lua

[Nick]

ow great, yeah, i'll recommend you to change to sprites, it doesn't really need its speed, so why not, it can only be nice

looks great

[cyanophycean314]

Yeah, I'm going to be changing to TI-Images as sprites. I guess there's no Lua function for that, you just have to manually do it.

@jimbauwens: You wrote a clone of rush hour?  But for the images, any help would be appreciated. Does that mean you're drawing the sprites?

[Jim Bauwens]

I wanted to make it, but did not start on it because of other projects.
But I did get the images from the official game and resized them to suit the calculator.
I can give these to you

Edit:
What do you mean with "I guess there's no Lua function for that, you just have to manually do it."?
There are sprite functions available...

[cyanophycean314]

I was referring to the copying of tables, not the sprites.  Sorry for misunderstanding.

The sprites would be awesome! I guess you could post them here or PM me. Thanks a lot! 

[Xeda112358]

Cool, as another BGMG coder, I think I will attempt this at some point with Grammer. The screenie looks nice, too

[cyanophycean314]

Thanks Xeda! Isn't the BGMG a bit lonely? It's just you, epic7, and I right? We need some more members. 

Anyways, I've been working on a level editor for this, so you can create custom levels. I think you'll also be able to save them later on. Here's a screenie of it.

As of now, there are an entire 6 levels! Haven't ported too much yet... 

[willrandship]

That's actually a really cool way to edit it! I like!

[AzNg0d1030]

Just make sure you don't create a level on the editor that isn't possible

[cyanophycean314]

You can create levels that are impossible... You can have super long vertical blocks that will block the entrance, but I don't think I can stop that, whatever. 

[Xeda112358]

I think he means not to create an impossible level that is included But yeah, if the user wants to create a custom level that is impossible, let 'em

[ZippyDee]

I just wanted to point out that the actual game only ever has blocks with a length of either two or three...

[cyanophycean314]

 I realize that, but why not have some variety!  Now has 12 levels.

[Yeong]

Good to see this progressing.