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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Snake and ladder game Post 302837165 by rbatte1 on Thursday 25th of July 2013 09:24:41 AM

07-25-2013

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I sort of managed this arrangement ages ago to give some privileges to our 24hr operators to stop & start a service that was always being awkward and was a pain to do. I wrote a script and had it started in a loop at boot time. It would watch a file and respond to messages written there. The Ops then had a scripts of their own to write a message to the file and wait for a return.

All a bit clunky, but it worked.

Perhaps some logic like:-

User1 starts the game, setting up the named pipe / temporary file and tails the file watching for messages from User2
User2 joins the game and writes a confirmation to the temporary file and waits for messages from User1.
User1 uses the value $RANDOM to determine odd or even and therefore who starts.
User1 writes the message to the file and whomever is next to play is prompted, whilst the other waits.
and the looping continues until there is a winner.

How are you planing to roll the dice? Might I suggest something like:-

Code:

rndm_num=$RANDOM                     # Only refer to this once.
((test_val=$rndm_num/6))             # Will truncate to integer
((test_val=$test_val*6))             # Will give nearest lower multiple of 6
((dice_val=$rndm_num-$test_val+1))   # Will give score between 1 & 6

Or, you could just start the game up and User1 could send the message "I won." and the games ends. It seems just as useful a way to pass the time as playing a game really. Mind you, the intellectual challenge is good practice. I wrote a soduko solver in ksh which was fun.

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renpy

renpy(6)							       Games								  renpy(6)

NAME

       renpy - engine for creating visual novels

SYNOPSIS

       renpy [path to the script directory]

DESCRIPTION

       Ren'Py  is  a programming language and runtime, intended to ease the creation of visual-novel type games. It contains features that make it
       easy to display thoughts, dialogue, and menus; to display images to the user; to write game logic; and to support the saving and loading of
       games.

       Ren'Py tries to be like an executable script, allowing you to get a working game without much more effort than is required to type the game
       script into the computer.

       Ren'Py is implemented on top of python, and that python heritage shows through in many places. Many Ren'Py statements allow python  expres-
       sions  to  be  used, and there are also Ren'Py statements that allow for the execution of arbitrary python code. Many of the less-used fea-
       tures of Ren'Py are exposed to the user by way of python. By only requiring use of the simplest features of python, it's hoped that  Ren'Py
       will be usable by all game authors.

USAGE

       If  you	run  the  program  without  any  arguments, zou will get an interactive launcher from where you can select, run and work different
       projects.

       For running a script, you need to give the full path to the directory that contains the game you want to play.

       For example: renpy /usr/share/games/renpy/demo/

       To learn how to use the game interface, you should install and play renpy-demo.

FILES

       The game data for each user is stored at ~/.renpy/ directory.

       The scripts can be installed in the system bz placing them under /usr/share/games/renpy/ , but you can  run  any  script  in  an  arbitrarz
       directory just by telling the path as the parameter to the game.

SEE ALSO

       You can find more information at http://www.renpy.org/

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