Backagammon game

Hi guys,

I am very new to construct 2 and have been searching for tutorials and help for what I have in mind to create :

A backgammon game running on HTML5.

First of all, do you think that construct is able to build such a game ?

Are there any relative tutorials or similar games ?

Any help is greatly appreciated - thank you !

It will possibly be very complicated. Very long years ago i made an example with C. I used an array system. IFor example at start position

Array values will be

Array.At(0) = 2

Array.At(1) = 0

Array.At(2) = 0

Array.At(3) = 0

Array.At(4) = 0

Array.At(5) = -5

Array.At(6) = 0

Array.At(7) = -3

Array.At(8) = 0

Array.At(9) = 0

Array.At(10) = 0

Array.At(11) = 5

Array.At(12) = -5

Array.At(13) = 0

Array.At(14) = 0

Array.At(15) = 0

Array.At(16) = 3

Array.At(17) = 0

Array.At(18) = 5

Array.At(19) = 0

Array.At(20) = 0

Array.At(21) = 0

Array.At(22) = 0

Array.At(23) = -2

Think of red ones for positive values, white ones for negative values. For example if value is 1 it means vulnerable. If red one rolls the dice move forward in array, if white one rolls the dice move backwards in array.

mrcgkh

Thanks for this.

Your array idea is very helpful and nice and simple.

Thank you for the idea.

Do you think that technically Construct 2 can be used to create such a game ?

I mean, as I have made some minor analysis, it needs lots of code for checking etc.

Is C2 suitable for this ? (because of its lack of coding).

No matter which tool do you choose it will be complicated. Most challenging part will be probably AI. You can use a scoring system for possible moves like this;

For every possible move

Rule 1) If number of arrays that have a value of 2 or higher increased give +3 points to that move

Rule 2) If number of arrays that have a value of 2 or higher did not changed give +1 points to that move

Rule 3) If number of arrays that have a value of 2 or higher decreased give -1 points to that move

Rule 4) If number of arrays that have a value of 0 increased give -1 points to that move

Rule 5) If number of arrays that have a value of 1 increased give -5 points to that move

Rule 6) If number of arrays that have a value of -1 increased give +5 points to that move

Rule 7) You can add your own rules

......

......

At the end pick the move with highest point

Another option is dropping the single player+AI part and making a Multiplayer only game. At this point you need only a visual representation of arrays. But i didn't used multiplayer plugin yet. If you plan a large scale game, i'm not sure Construct can handle a big multiplayer project.

Thanks again. That's what I was afraid too about using Construct. Since the project I have in mind would have the ability to expand to an HTML5 multiplayer game, based on the information I have found so far, I don't think C2 can support that.

If you (@ mrcgkh) or someone else can give more info on this, please post.

Thank you.