Solitaire *Work in progress*

I downloaded and messed with the Torque Game Builder demo and found that it was surprisingly easy to use. So I decided to see if I could get a simple game created during the 30 day trial. If I could accomplish that, then the engine would be worth purchasing it. I would even settle with an almost finished game, provided I felt I could get the game completed in a couple more weeks. Granted, I could not make something along the lines marble blast or bejewelled in 30 days with my current knowledge of TorqueScript, but I felt I could get a simple card\puzzle put together in that short amount of time.

So I set out to start work on GoFish, which quickly turned into Solitaire, and here I am now crunching away on Solitaire with 20 days left in my demo. I found a royalty free tileset of a deck of cards, cut them up and imported each image into TGB so I can position them on the screen and see where each card is going to end up at some point (as shown below).


I did this so I can layout the card table how I want it done, now that this is finished I can go about coding the game. The cards will be removed from the table when the game is ready to be tested and released, as the cards will be created during runtime(at least that's the plan at the moment).

The table is broke up into 'slots', and each slot will have an offset. Allowing me to do a %this.Move(%slotNumber, %offset) and have the card moved to where ever it needs to go (as illustrated below).


Slot 1 is where the 'winning' cards go. The Ace of Hearts is located at xx.xxx, and the remaining suites are placed at -12.000 offsets, which will be handled automatically through code.

To aquire the world position of each slot I simply cal my getSlot(%slot) method and pass to it the slot that I want coordinates for. It then returns them to me.

//0 = Pile
//1 = Winning Slot (Very top)
//2 = Player Hand slot 0
//3 = player hand slot 1
//4 = player hand slot 2
//5 = player hand slot 3
//6 = player hand slot 4
//7 = player hand slot 5
function getSlot(%slot)
{
	switch$ (%slot)
	{
		case "0":
			%position = "-30.000 -19.000";
		case "1":
			%position = "4.000 -20.000";
		case "2":
			%position = "-26.000 -6.000";
		case "3":
			%position = "-14.000 -6.000";
		case "4":
			%position = "-2.000 -6.000";
		case "5":
			%position = "10.000 -6.000";
		case "6":
			%position = "22.000 -6.000";
		case "7":
			%position = "34.000 -6.000";
	}
	
	return %position;
}

The offset code I am still working on and when it is finished I will post it up. The above code is pretty simple, but I wanted to show how I did it, incase anyone had any better idea's.

for now the game will be super simple, match the cards up in a traditional Solitaire game, but I was looking online and found rule sets for about 20 differant styles of Solitaire, so if I can get a basic game up and running, I will purchase the engine and incorporate differant rule sets that the player can choose from, along with differant back grounds and card styles.

The only thing that I'm concerned about is figuring out the following issue.

Click on 6 of Hearts, it gets selected.
Click on 7 of clubs, move 6 of Hearts on top

How do I make sure that the two cards are of differant colored suite. This will take some messing with.