Hello,
I'm in the design phase of creating a computer version of my favorite baseball board game. Before I plunge in and find out I've done something wrong half way through, I thought I'd post my ideas here, and see what you guys think.
The game, (maybe someone here is familiar with it), is called Pursue the Pennant. Three ten sided dice are rolled, a number from 000-999 is generated, and the play result is then read from a player's card. I'd really like to create a computer version to make stat keeping and overall game flow easier. So, each player has a card that reflects their real performance. I'm thinking a simple comma delimited text file holding all players and all their ratings/play results would suffice. Also, it would hold a "team id" for each player, and when their team is selected to play a game, they would be loaded from the file. I also believe having all players pooled together (rather than each team having a separate file) would make things like drafting easier.
This gives a general idea of my thought process. Storing players, teams, league, and park information in big comma delimited files. Is this a good approach? (something like below):
players_2008.dat -> holds all players and their "cards" from 2008
teams_2008.dat -> holds each team's name, park, and id
parks_2008.dat -> each park will have a name, and id
Another problem is statistics. I'd like to be able to accumulate them over a period of games. Should another file be created to just hold them, and reference the id's held in the initial files? Would this be too slow when sorting statistics?
The game also uses some charts, where certain results are read from if the player card result calls for it. Should these be hard coded or stored in the same way as the others? Is there an easier way to create something like this?
Thanks so much for reading, and I hope to hear your thoughts.