[Coco] Jeweled game done

[Ben Jimenez]

Roger,

My thought on this being a newbie here is that if
there was a way to have each gem have a certain path
that it had to follow in order for the board to be
completed. Lets say your board was 10x10. you lay the
gems out scrambled and as the player starts to get
ride of the gems he must be careful to do it in the
order that each jems movement data requires it to be
moved. So say a circle from position 2,3 would have to
be moved to 2,4 and so on in order to complete the
board. If one gem is moved out of its pre determined
order then the player becomes trapped and must restart
the board and try again. I don't think this would be
too difficult to code (there i go again thinking). 

Ben

Ben


--- Kevin Diggs <kevdig at hypersurf.com> wrote:

> Roger Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > All I need is a routine that sets up a scrambled
> board of gems in a way 
> > that each move leads to another possible move or
> moves (and collapse of 
> > certain sets of gems) so that the last move clears
> the board.  I can't 
> > find any algorithms for this on the web even
> though there's tons of 
> > Bejeweled knock-offs with source code to come.  I
> think most don't have 
> > a puzzle mode like the one in Bejeweled 2.  It's
> not like scrambling a 
> > 3-D color cube.  I'm probably going to have to
> build the board from the 
> > bottom rows up, swapping two gems vertically or
> horizontally as I insert 
> > a vertical or horizontal set or sets.  I've tried
> different approaches 
> > and the boards always come out where a 2 year old
> could solve them.
> > 
> Roger,
> 
> 	Just a crazy thought. Maybe the algorithm that maze
> (old X windows maze 
> program) uses to construct its mazes can be adapted?
> 
> kevin
> 
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