Thread: Bejeweled

The code was in response on how to display a bejeweled type game. I'm not going to sit here and attempt to defend a 4 year old post. For those of you who actually read the original thread I was simply showing a way he 'might' - key word - 'might' go about displaying items. I wrote the code while writing the post and I'm sure it was buggy but it was never intended to be bulletproof. It was simply a shove in the right direction.

I'm so sorry that I didn't just write the whole game so someone could copy it later.

Posts: 676 What is Bejeweled?

I looked at Bubba's program, but it didn't look like a game, to me??

Yeah it's not a game. I was showing one way to possibly render the text symbols or the entire board. So the concept is there but the code is quite honestly not meant to be an example of exactly what to do.

Back in my day extra curriculum was just that, extra, focus on your real curriculum and do your own homework.

Originally Posted by Hisco

Ok, problem solved. Now i have to make the algorithm for the table to automatic delete the 3 blocks horizontally/vertically in combination, to make the blocks from the upper line come down in the place of the deleted blocks and finally, to verify wether there are other blocks that are making a 3-consecutive combination after the replacements of the blocks. Any help is good.

You'll need to scan through each element of the table, both by rows and by columns, and see where any combo of 3 jewels in a row, might be found.

Code:

/*an example of a row based scan*/
flag1 = flag2 = flag3 = 0;
for(row = 0; row < NumberOfRows; row++)  {
   for(col = 0; col < NumberOfCols - 1; col++)   {
      if(table[row][col] == table[row][col+1])   {
         if(flag2 == 1)  {
            flag3 = 1;    //indicating you have 3 jewels in a row
            //add your "falling from the top rows down to the current row" code, here
            //remember to start with the current row, and "pull" the jewels down, otherwise
            //you'll not know what jewel to pull down after the first one, because you
            //over-wrote it's value already
            flag1 = flag2 = flag3 = 0; //ready to continue scan
         }//end of if
         
         if(flag1 == 1)
            flag2 = 1;   //indicating you have 2 jewels in a row
         else
            flag1 = 1;
      } //if table[row... ==...
      else
         flag1 = flag2 = flag3 = 0; //1st time no match, all three flags need to go back to zero
   }//col
}//row

This code is very untested, so be warned. I've never played Bejeweled, either. (Tried to, but it kept tell me it couldn't with my browser (Firefox).

Good luck with your project.