Hello, I'm new and have decided to make a Pacman-style game after playing Pac-Stan. In order to move my monsters, I'm looking to use MoveEntity within a HookRendered function. Something like

void MoveMonsters

{

  string directions

  string move



  for every monster m

  {

    if(m is not moving)

    {

      directions = tag of tile monster is standing on

      look at directions to see valid directions

      move = pick one at random

      MoveEntity(m, move)

    }

  }

}

within the tag would be string like "L4U2D7" and picking a direction at random would involve taking a random part of the string out.

Yeah, I just went ahead and coded it. It doesn't look very nice, but never mind. It works and that's the main thing.

It would be a nice thing to add in though, like the same way Entities have description fields.

I'm probably missing the point here, but couldn't you just create a two dimensional string array that's the same size as your mazes and then look up the elements depending on the x,y position of the entity?

For larger maps on limited systems, it might be impractical. I haven't worked out the memory requirements but I think a high resolution image would probably require more space than an array, unless it's ungodly large.

The array also has the benefit that you can repopulate it for different mazes.

If you were feeling the memory pinch though, I'd imagine you could do something with map zones to record the X/Y positions, so you only need to have as many strings as you need.

I was too lazy to do any of this with Pac-Stan :) I'd intended it as a tutorial game of sorts but I got caught up coding instead of documenting what I was doing about half-way through and I think I actually restructured some of the code after that.