Thread: Connect four

why dont you think about it yourself. try a few things out and then post again (when you've had a go).

At least try and do it yourself before asking to be spoon fed!

If you have tried it yourself already, show us what you have tried and we'll show you how to fix it!

U.

I made a tic-tac-toe game... the diagonals were sort of manual (if this == 1 && that == 1 && this == 1), but for rows and columns... try for loops

(e.g.)

Code:

for(int x = 0; x < 3; ++x)
{
     if(positions[x][0] == 1 && positions[x][1] == 1 && (etc.))
          playerWins(1); // or something like that
}

I'm too lazy to figure out how to do it for connect 4 by myself, but give that a thought

I hope this help, for instance instead of using a matrix use a single dimension array. The spaces needed is constant. For example for tic-tac-toe there is only 9 spaces available so just declare an array of 9 spaces.


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the same could work for Connect 4. There are only 42 places that you choose from. an array of of 42 spaces.

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