For more than 2 players would this work?

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So what I am trying to figure out is what if we have a game of let's say 4 players or more... And I wanna go through this with a for loop to add all of the things dynamically.

And what would be the correct approach to do the thing I have in mind?

class Game {
    constructor(){
        this.board = new Board();
        this.players = this.createPlayers(4);
        this.ready = false;
    }
    createPlayers(num){
        const players = new Player();

        for(let i = 0 ; i < this.players; i++) {
            this.name = `Player ${num}`;
            this.id += 1;
            this.color = "#"+((1<<24)*Math.random()|0).toString(16);

            if( players < 1 ) {
                this.active = active;
            } else {
                this.active = false;
            }
        }
        return players;
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2020-02-06T16:52:51Z

February 6, 2020 4:52pm

Here's a few hints:

you probably want "players" to be an array of objects, but it's being set to a single instance of "Player"
the loop iterations should be limited by "num" instead of "this.players"
remember that "createPlayers" is being called before "this.players" gets created
the player number would be "i" (the loop index) instead of "num" (the total players)
"this" would represent the instance of "Game" and not an individual player
if "players" is an array (or even if it is an object) you wouldn't compare it to a number

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