Thread: Survivor Program

Hello everyone. I am currently working on a program for school where I have to stimulate a survivor game. In the game, there is a "creature" that is randomly generated on a 6x6 island grid. The game requires no user input, so the creature will just randomly "hop" around the island until it reaches a randomly generated bridge, at which point it escapes and ends the game, hops into the water on the sides of the island, or reaches turn 20, which means that the "creature" dies due to it having starved. So far I have generated an array, where w represents water on the edge of the island. . So far I have this code written:

Code:

 #include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>




int main(void)
{
    int i = 0;
    int rabbit = 0;
    int go = 0;
    int row = 0;
    int column = 0;
    int line = 0;
    char island[6][6] =
    {
    {'w','w','w','w','w','w'},
    {'w',' ',' ',' ',' ','w'},
    {'w',' ',' ',' ',' ','w'},
    {'w',' ',' ',' ',' ','w'},
    {'w',' ',' ',' ',' ','w'},
    {'w','w','w','w','w','w'},
    };


for( i = 0; i<=19; i++)


{
printf("\n\n");
printf(" %c | %c | %c | %c | %c | %c |\n", island[0][0], island[0][1], island[0][2], island[0][3], island[0][4], island[0][5]);
printf("--------------------------\n");
printf(" %c | %c | %c | %c | %c | %c |\n", island[1][0], island[1][1], island[1][2], island[1][3], island[1][4], island[1][5]);
printf("--------------------------\n");
printf(" %c | %c | %c | %c | %c | %c |\n", island[2][0], island[2][1], island[2][2], island[2][3], island[2][4], island[2][5]);
printf("--------------------------\n");
printf(" %c | %c | %c | %c | %c | %c |\n", island[3][0], island[3][1], island[3][2], island[3][3], island[3][4], island[3][5]);
printf("--------------------------\n");
printf(" %c | %c | %c | %c | %c | %c |\n", island[4][0], island[4][1], island[4][2], island[4][3], island[4][4], island[4][5]);
printf("--------------------------\n");
printf(" %c | %c | %c | %c | %c | %c |\n", island[5][0], island[5][1], island[5][2], island[5][3], island[5][4], island[5][5]);
printf("--------------------------\n");




srand (time(NULL));
    int i = 0;
    while(i < 20)
    {
        int moves = rand() % 9 + 1;


    }
}
}

My plan to simulate the creature hopping is to use a random number generator that randomly chooses a number between 0-8. Each number corresponds to the creature moving 1 space diagonally, vertically or to the sides. For example, 0 would correspond to the creature moving up to the left 1 would correspond to the creature moving up one space vertically etc. This would just correspond to a column and/or row change of 1. I wish to know how I can accomplish this. And I also wish to know how I can randomly generate a creature on the island.