2005 Game Simulator / Scoring Program in Flash

[Suneet]

I'm glad everyone likes the program! Thanks for your support

Originally Posted by NullTerminator

Thanks this is a really neat utility
however i found a minor bug in it while playing around at a meeting
I put all the blue tetras under one goal
Pic 1
I reset the game but the tetras under the goal didn't go away
Pic 2
And then i just kept clicking one of those squares and it gave me unlimited tetras.(look where it says BLUE TETRAS LEFT)
Pic 3
Is this a cheat code / easter egg or something

Yes indeed, it's a minor bug that I discovered soon after I wrote it, but I had already compiled and reshacked the program, and didn't want to do it again to fix a bug that I thought no one would run in to during normal use. Thanks for pointing it out, though And wow, you really did a lot of clicking and dragging to produce those shots I've exploited the bug because I knew of it too, but really, I've never had the patience to go that far, hehe

[Cyberguy34000]

What are the greyed out options for?

[663.keith]

I would first like to say that this is an amazing program!

I was just wondering what the two tetras are for that are off the screen. if you restore down the size of the field, they become visible and can be put into play. they cant be stacked or capped. Is this just a small bug?

[Suneet]

Originally Posted by 663.keith

I would first like to say that this is an amazing program!

I was just wondering what the two tetras are for that are off the screen. if you restore down the size of the field, they become visible and can be put into play. they cant be stacked or capped. Is this just a small bug?

Hehe, it's just how one programs in flash. The blue tetra is the one that is initialized and copied to produce all the tetras that the game uses. The red tetra contains 3D Tetra rendering code that I chose to disable. I decided not to make them invisible, just so people might run in to the disabled 3D rendered tetra and wonder what it was for...

[danield710]

awesome job, thanks for puttin the time in to do this, im sure a lot of teams will use this, i already kno that my team has used this alot, thx

[WizardOfAz]

We have a very low-tech version of a game simulator - a Triple Play board game. Not as sexy as Suneet's work (and thanks!) but doesn't need a computer to play it. We're using it to learn game strategies during build-team breaks. It's a reasonable but not perfect simulation.

Rules and a ppt or jpg version of the game board are here:
http://crush1011.org/TriplePlayBoardGame

It makes a fun board game, even for people who have nothing to do with FIRST. It also quickly got me thinking differently about how to play the game. Good training for coaches.

Bill

[Conor Ryan]

i still have to admit, your program is quite a bit nicer than mine. I like a couple of features that you added into it like the way you pick and choose if the tetra goes on top or bottom.