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SarahW

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Do you use loops?
« on: May 24, 2016, 06:04:11 PM »
I tried looking for specifics in a startpage search, but usually when I look up specific things Stack Overflow often gives confusing answers without really explaining how anything works, and then I have figure out how to rework things to fit in a game design concept. Very frustrating.

Anyway, what I mainly know of Ruby is strings, variables, arrays, class, class call. I have difficulty with more specific grhings like reading files, so I often end up having to hard code levels in.

Is there a way to find tutorials written in a way that don't feel like machine level language? That way I can better find out the extent of which specific loops in Ruby are necessary.

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class Hello

  def initialize
    greet
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  def greet
    puts "Hello Roguelike Forums."
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end

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2016, 08:59:13 PM »

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2016, 01:50:37 AM »
Ruby code usually uses the `each` method on collections instead of explicit loops.

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items = ["sword", "shield", "armor"]

items.each do |item|
   puts item
end

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2016, 02:34:17 AM »
Ruby code usually uses the `each` method on collections instead of explicit loops.

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items = ["sword", "shield", "armor"]

items.each do |item|
   puts item
end

Thanks! I'll look into that.

I am familiar with things like:

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20.times do
  puts "Hello World."
end

So I'll be sure to test it out!

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2016, 05:20:00 PM »
There is also more classic
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while condition
...
end
for algorithms
and even infinite
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loop do
...
end
for things like a main game loop.

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2016, 10:58:46 PM »
Would that be like for a game engine?

One of the first text based games (not going to say it's roguelike, cause ... well it's not.) was a hybrid of text based adventure and an early navigational style. I've sense learned better methods (not pun intended) like assigning tiles to variables and navigating based on a game loop in a game class.

Note to self, contains navigation in one method.

Central Hud is what I use for more statistics based games. It's closer to a text based "dating sim" than a roguelike.

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2016, 07:16:56 AM »
These AI bots are getting interesting. It's almost making some kind of sense.

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2016, 11:42:07 AM »
Yup. Too bad our local flame bot can't muster anything reminiscent of intelligence, though.

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Re: Do you use loops?
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2016, 03:12:44 PM »
Yea, I've read this thread a dozen times and I still can't tell if SarahW is a bot. It's hard to believe that some of the sentences are from a bot, but other sentences are pretty incoherent. Maybe it's some combo of markov generation and a human writing? No idea.

Anyway, loops are one of the most fundamental constructs in programming. I can't image doing much useful without them, especially for games programming. And they're pretty easy too.

My biggest problem with loops is when I often try to delete out of array I'm looping over. Only works if the loop runs in reverse.
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