Card Game - How to compare arrays?

Hello everyone. I am currently working on a card game. The game has 42 different (unique) cards. The cards can have up to 4 different values.

I have now created a separate array for each card with 1-4 elements.

The idea is, similar to a Uno card game, that the player can put certain cards only on other cards.

Example:

Card 1 = 1,2,4,6

Card 2 = 3,6,9

Card 3 = 5

Card 1 and 2 are compatible, card 3 can neither be placed on card 1 nor on card 2.

I would now like to compare the arrays with each other.

What is the best way to do this? Do you have any ideas?

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You should check out the documentation for the Array type as a reference.

How you want to compare them is dependent on how you intend the game logic to work (which you didn't specify), but the Compare At X condition will let you select one array at a given position. You can then use the Array.At(X) expression to select the other array you want to compare.

If you want to know the number of elements in a given array, you can use the Array.Width expression and use some system comparison condition to compare it with some value.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for the quick reply.

I want to check if at least 1 value matches on two cards. So I have to compare all values of array_1 with all values of array_2. If at least one value is identical in both arrays, the cards may be placed on top of each other.

Array.At(X) doesn't seem to be the right command to read all values of an array, does it?

You can use the condition Contains Value to see if a value is in an array

You can also use a For Each Element condition and use a sub-event if you wanna do this for all values (where the expression CurValue is the current element in the looping array)

No easier way to do this that I know of

I am to dumb. It´s sad to say but I can´t get things running.

Maybe I should give up and try something less complicated :-/

Sorry. Maybe my mood will be better tomorow, but today I am very frustrated, because its very logic and easy to explain, but I can´t get it. Maybe I should switch and work with variables.

Don´t know.

Here is what I got so far...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lrl3ykr6vh1z6m8/shuffle_Cards_02.c3p?dl=0

Maybe you get an idea of the game...

Its a game about learning the basics of multiplication.

1x1, 2x1, 3x1, 4x1 ... (1,2,3,4...)

1x2, 2x2, 3x2, 4x2 ... (2,4,6,8...)

1x3, 2x3, 3x3, 4x3 ... (3,6,9,12...)

As you can see.. Some Numbers are in several rows...

What do you think? Is working with array easier than working with variables?

Thank you dupuqub.

You are right!

Breaking the problem down into its component parts should help in any case. I always find myself working around the actual problem. I will keep at it. I just hate it when I don't get anywhere fast enough.

Here is the core of my problem:

"Find equal values in two arrays"

array_01: 1,2,5,10

array_02: 3,5,6

How can I do that?

Can you please help?

OMG. You guys rock! I know that my code was very ugly.

I am not a programmer (as you can see) but actually work as an illustrator. I already thought that this is so very cumbersome, but better ugly code than no code :D

I'll have a deeper look at later.

But for now: Thank you, thank you, thank you!

AllanR

Now I see what you did. This is so much better. Thank you!

Btw, where did you get the "missing" cards? ;-)

Can you tell me how you choose what card will be selected at the start?

I just copied and pasted digits from other cards in the C3 image editor - didn't put in any effort to line things up so they are not perfect... and then gave up at 15 because that was enough to get the point.

I made 4 instances of "Card" on the layout and made them the same as the 4 you choose for your example - so testing would be easy.

if you wanted to randomize it I would make a "CreateCard" function that would create the instance, pick a random card value (from 1 to the highest card number), and then load the instance variables from a master array (2 dimensional, where x is the card number, and then 4 y values).

it gets a little trickier if you want to make sure there are no duplicate cards, or if you want to make sure there is a possible way to play all four cards...

to make sure there are no duplicates, I would make a master deck of cards, and then randomly pick from that deck (deleting the card from that deck so it can't get picked again).

Because of the values* of the cards I thought about putting them all in an array and sort them randomly. Let's see if it works.

*(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,14,15,16,18,20,21,24,25,27,30 ... 80,81,90,100)

As you can see some values are missing.

I have seen that you use: pick CARD instance X

Is it possible to assign these instance numbers?