After getting a basic system of moving Items between different Containers, I needed to extend this slightly. First of all, I need some feedback of which container an item is going to, and also of restricting items to only some containers. In most games, only some containers are valid locations to drop an item. Feedback …
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Drag and Drop in Unity Part One
I’m starting to experiment with Unity for a hobby project involving a card game. In almost any card game, there are certain areas of the table for a collection of cards. Whether this is the vertical stack in Solitaire, the lands in Magic: The Gathering or a hidden hand of cards that aren’t ‘on’ the …
Learning Unit Testing XI – Difficult Terrain Is Difficult
As the title clearly states, difficult terrain is going to be hard. It will involve a replacement of the ‘get distance’ code that takes into account that strict distances are not the same as movement distances – the idea that four inches of distance may cost five, six or more inches of movement (which is …
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Learning Unit Testing X – Finishing Hiding
Last time, I got the tests for Charging out of the way, and got through a raft of simple checks for Hiding. This time, a few of the more complicated checks. First off, a model can move around while hiding as long as it remains out of sight. I’m not sure how to be checking …
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Learning Unit Testing IX – Moving On With Movement
Having gotten those knotty problems with world management, distances, directions, etc all out of the way I can finally move off of page 10. So what’s next? Page 11! Hooray! It begins with a description of a charge move. A charge works like a run, at double-move rate, with the model (hopefully) ending up in …
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Learning Unit Testing VIII – Emergent Design
I’ve been bracing myself for this moment since I started the project – I’m coming to believe that I’ve been heading in a slightly wrong direction. Part of TDD is the idea of ‘emergent design’, and letting the correct design emerge from the process of writing minimal code to pass tests. At the same time, …
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Learning Unit Testing VII – Running and Redesigning
I can see this page 10 being a pretty big thorn in my side. After stating fairly clearly models can move up to their move rate under the ‘Moving’ heading, it then says A running fighter can move at double speed: 8″ rather than 4″, for example. This is going to have a fairly large …
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Learning Unit Testing VI – Code Coverage
Before I get into finally finishing off that blasted page 10, I thought I’d go through a code coverage run to see how I was doing. Test Driven Development, see, everything should be covered by a test. 7.41% of the code is not covered by tests! I must be doing this wrong… Phew, that was …
Learning Unit Testing V – Refactoring Mistakes
I implied in the last post that I had made a mistake when I moved the MoveModel code into the Model class from the MovementManager class. Now, tests on the MovementManager class are actually testing functionality in the Model class. I also discovered that I am not properly testing the ‘GetDistanceFrom’ method with known data …
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Learning Unit Testing IV – Diagrams and Mathematics
Programming uses maths. It’s hard to ignore sometimes, especially when modelling something that is inherently graphical and position based such as a game. I’ve decided to give the models three different position indicators – PositionX, PositionY and PositionZ. This will describe their exact position anywhere on the board – including on a ladder, a walkway …
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