Game engine

[tobpal]

As a game organizer I want to have as many different questions as possible , you should be able to play for a long time not answering the same question.

[tommysdk]

We aim to build a basic Q & A - game, where the user tries to answer as many questions correct as possible during a given time period.

Components we need:

• GUI
• Something to generate the questions
• Verify answers, keep track of score and time
• Storage (for user details, scores, questions and answers etc)

[tommysdk]

It would be cool to have some kind of tool that basically executes the code snippets in the questions to generate the correct answer, so we can assure that we have the correct answer for each question.

Each question should probably also contain some form of randomly generated variables/data so we can reuse questions without having them expect the same answer every time. E.g., question: "System.out.println("{variable}");" would be generated to "System.out.println("foo");" one time but "System.out.println("bar");" the next time.

[tommysdk]

So yesterday we started to outline the basic API designs. We need a game engine, which is able to bootstrap new games, determine rules etc. A game engine can hold an arbitrary amount of game sessions (representing an actual game, whether about to start, ongoing or finished). Each game session holds an arbitrary amount (determined by the rules in the game engine) of player sessions, which keeps track on questions, score etc for each player. We also started outlining interface classes for these three components, see GameEngine, GameSession and PlayerSession classes respectively. As these designs are only a first draft, they are very much subject for future refactoring.