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I'm making a game as a part of my unit for uni but I don't know the best way of doing it as i'm new to AS3. I have 8 guests in a party each different and has different personalities, hobbies and interests. The game works like this, if you click on a guest and click anywhere on stage then that guest will move towards it. If you click on a guest and then click on another guest, the guest you clicked on first will move towards the guest you clicked on second and when they are close they will talk to each other.
All the 8 guests will share the same function and code in terms of the moving around. I have got the click and move part done but it was done on a Guest01 class but all the guest will have it the same. Should I create 8 different classes for each guest or should I do it using arrays. I really don't know how to start on this. Below is the code for click and move:
package
{
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.filters.*;
public class Guest01 extends MovieClip
{
var walkSpeed:Number = 5;
var oldPosX;
var oldPosY;
var myGlow:GlowFilter = new GlowFilter();
public function Guest01()
{
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, addGlow);
}
public function addGlow(event:MouseEvent):void
{
filters = [myGlow];
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, removeGlow);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, ready);
}
function removeGlow(event:MouseEvent):void
{
filters = [];
}
public function ready(event:MouseEvent):void
{
filters = [myGlow];
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, walk);
removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, removeGlow);
}
function walk(event:MouseEvent):void
{
oldPosX = parent.mouseX;
oldPosY = parent.mouseY;
rotation = Math.atan2(oldPosY - y,oldPosX - x) / Math.PI * 180;
filters = [];
stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, walk);
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
}
function loop(event:Event):void
{
var dx:Number = oldPosX - x;
var dy:Number = oldPosY - y;
var distance:Number = Math.sqrt((dx*dx)+(dy*dy));
if (distance<walkSpeed)
{
// if you are near the target, snap to it
x = oldPosX;
y = oldPosY;
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop);
}
else
{
x = x+Math.cos(rotation/180*Math.PI)*walkSpeed;
y = y+Math.sin(rotation/180*Math.PI)*walkSpeed;
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

I have got the click and move part done but it was done on a Guest01 class but all the guest will have it the same. Should I create 8 different classes for each guest or should I do it using arrays.
You should not create 8 different classes for 8 different Guests but you should try to re-use the classes and methods for different Guests.
I have 8 guests in a party each different and has different personalities, hobbies and interests.
You would want to create one Guest class and keep all the properties (personalities, hobbies etc.) as the variables in the class. You'll have to initialize the Class for different Guest in the start based on the profile the guest selects (or random). Also all the methods for Guest (like walk, glow etc.) would be the methods of the class itself.
Hope it helps to give you some direction.

Answer 2

Just tried to answer your question from a different post. You need to break down the game into simple actions like moving the user from one place to another, calculating the offset position a user should move to if they wan to move to another user, calculating the position of elements for displaying a users hobbies and interests, ect.
Have you ever programmed in an object oriented language before? There are some fundementles that you must have a firm grasp of before taking on a project like building a game. Based on your last post, your next focus should be the following methods.
Since you have already written a function for relocating a player based on a user click you should write the following functions:
Inside the clickToMove() function ( or whatever you called it). Write an if test to see if the relocating click selects an empty location or a location with a user on it. If the user is present you need to write another method for offsetting the position of the player that is to move, otherwise the players will be layered on top of each other.
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