I'm trying to make a very simple board game for the TI-84+ CE!
I don't have a project name yet, but maybe something like BoardsCE or BoardgameCE.

Because I'm not really good with programming the way I am making this is with very much code.
I am sure there are ways to write it out with less code, but that's not how I now make it.
But any recommendations for better code with the same effect are appreciated!

I am making it in basic, so it doesn't look professional, but maybe I'll still give the square's a backgroundcolor, however, that is then more code, so more needed room.

And maybe I'll make a version of the game in C, if the ti-basic version is ready. But I don't know that yet, maybe I just only make this basic version.
Depends on how much I have learned by then in C, because at the moment I can't program in C.

I'll add here some pictures of the board of the game, which is already in its first state, and some views at the code and a picture of one of my notes.

Let me know when you have the code uploaded!

I've the code ready for how it is now.

I still want to make something that you can see the circle that is the player moving, but I don't know if and how that is possible.
And I am considering if I should make colored squares... I don't know what looks better.

But, the code is really huge, it is more than 400 lines of code.

I've here a link to the file.
But I don't know how I can share it better, without needing to set it in my drive. (I don't want that everyone knows my real name...)
So for now I work with this link, but it can only be opened 10 times, and is only valid seven days...

An easy way to share code, especially short BASIC programs like that, is to just copy if from TI Connect CE and paste it into a code block like this:

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Isn't more than 400 lines of code a bit much to set it in a code block that way?

But I've found out that I can also share it via SourceCoder3.
http://sc.cemetech.net/?hash=oC9E5ZSH3Bln0dWzOrlAWOm2y7wF

Continuing from SAX, your massive block of Text( and Line( commands are a perfect place to use For( loops. If you want to learn the syntax for For, use the link in the SAX quote above. For example, I can condense this

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To this

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This might not seem like that large a change in program size, but it's actually much better than it looks, since the code with the For( loops is much more scalable. If you wanted your grid twice as dense, for example, your original code would be at least twice as long. With the For( loops, the code doesn't grow at all. Here's what that same code would look like to create a grid twice as dense:

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please do not make unsolicited optimizations to my code. I'm trying to demonstrate a coding principle, not flex on a newbie. yes, I'm sure the **** I did with B can be smaller and faster

So, if I want to add that you see the circle (player) move I should use something like:


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Yep, that will do it! You will have to keep in mind the weird stuff that happens when you "move" an object using a for loop like that, though, since your loop actually ends without any circle onscreen. You'll want to draw the character in its final position last.

I've a question about your notation.
Why do you use ~50 instead of -50?
Does -50 give an error or is it only translated to the calculation '-'?

In SourceCoder, ~ means the negation sign (next to the .) while - means the subtraction operator.
Both 10 ~ 3 and (-3) will give an error if you don't manually change the negation sign to subtraction or vice versa.
Using ~ makes it easy for people to run your code without having to type it out for themselves, which means people are more likely to give help.

Ah, thanks, that makes sense.
Then I'll change that everywhere in my code.
I have already changed the A=... to ...->A
Then I still have to think of something that the moving circle follows the path...
I need to think much on that..

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This code could be optimized to just one label.


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Now all you have to do is place the variable name before you call this subroutine.

So you mean that I set in the last line of label A: B?

But I still have to find something that the circle will follow the correct path, so that it doesn't go straight to the new point, but that it follows the correct order on the board.
So that it goes not from 1 diagonal to 7, but from 1 horizantal to 6 and then vertical to 7.

But I don't know how to do that yet.

Ah okay. So in that case you would a make a movement simulator. I can you make chart on how the character is supposed to move. I'm not really understanding your english.

Here a picture of what I mean.

I've now managed to make the circle move in the right direction (I hope).
But I can't test it yet, because I still don't have options to send programs to my calculator.
But I think it will work correctly now, if the circle's don't move in the right direction I might have to change some little things, maybe I have put some variables in the wrong order, but I think it's good now.

The bad thing of the code I use to make the circle move in the right order is that the whole program is now almost 600 lines of code....

https://tiplanet.org/pb/

You can upload a ROM for the CEmu online if you can find one or someone can dump one for you.

Can anyone help me with solving this problem?


First when there is thrown a number, one of the circles should move.
Now, however, one of the circles goes to a point where it shouldn't be, and the other moves.
But then the next throw, you should see the other circle move (player 2), but that isn't what happens. The same circle moves always.

I still have to change the red lines, but that should be easy done

Can you paste a snippet of the routine for the circle movement?

Well, I have removed now the code for moving the Circle, so that you only see that it is on a new spot.


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But I think the problem of which circle moves is somewhere here:


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