My first game

Learning Swift from scratch I am up to the Class course and decided to see if I could make a simple game with the knowledge I have learned:

• Types • Operators • Arrays • Dictionaries • Control Flow: Loops, If, Boolean • Switch Statements • Functions • Structs • Classes

Practice is different to theory and I have the following sixth draft of the game that I put together, figuring out each problem as I went without asking for help. I am close to the end and now need to finish the game, so I would like a critique on how I did.

OUTLINE:

There are four houses to visit, each one has bones your dog can take. Some houses are farther away than others and require more stamina, which you get from bones (2 bones = 1 stamina). If you visit a house that you have previously been to, the owner will be waiting and take x bones back!

class Abode {

    var name: [String]
    var bones: Int
    var travel: Int
    var owner: Int
    var visited: [String]


    init(name: String, bones: Int, travel: Int, owner: Int) {
        self.name = [name]
        self.bones = bones
        self.travel = travel
        self.owner = owner
        self.visited = self.name
    }
}



class Dog {
    var boneCollecion: Int
    var stamina: Int
    var routeTaken: [String]


    init(boneCollection: Int, stamina: Int, routeTaken: [String]) {
        self.boneCollecion = boneCollection
//        self.boneCollecion = hasVisited(penalty: Int)
        self.stamina = Int (stamina / 2)
        self.routeTaken = routeTaken
    }
}

let albert = Abode(name: "Albert", bones: 2, travel: 0, owner: 1)
let bernárd = Abode(name: "Bernárd", bones: 2, travel: 1, owner: 1)
let cox = Abode(name: "Cox", bones: 7, travel: 9, owner: 5)
let darling = Abode(name: "Darling", bones: 20, travel: 15, owner: 10)


var james = Dog(boneCollection: albert.bones, stamina: albert.bones, routeTaken: albert.name)

//// calculate if house has been visited already
//// if so, a penalty of x bones shall be deducted by house owner
//func hasVisited(penalty: Int) -> Int {
//    if james.routeTaken == albert.visited {
//        james.boneCollecion - albert.owner
//    }
//    return penalty
//}

I tried to not repeat myself and keep the code tight, it's not a big complex game but there is a fair bit of referencing going on.

First I initialised the Abode class with four houses ("Albert", Bernard". "Cox" and "Darling" i.e. "A", "B", "C", "D") to give each house it's unique characteristics. The idea being that "Albert" is the house one first visits, here "James" (the dog) gets two bones, of which earns him a Stamina value of one (two bones = 1 stamina), that stamina amassed over time determines if he's able to reach other houses via the travel value.

The other mechanic of the game is that if doggy get's too lazy and visits the same house twice in a row, he will be caught out by the owner waiting for him: I created a helper function outside of the classes to calculate this, but I couldn't link to it when initialising from within the Dog class.

During initialisation of the different houses I passed the name of the Abode into an array that I intended to fill up with the houses visited. As it presently stands the array only contains the present house visited (i.e. the last) but it makes more sense otherwise James couldn't visit any of the houses more than once, which adds a little more fairness and realism that people let their guard down over time.

So if James went from "Albert" to "Bernard" it would be fine, but then back to "Bernard" strait away (because he can get more bones) then the owner would deduct x amount of bones!

The function does not work with the initialiser, I just don't know what's wrong. However, the even bigger issue is how to I collate all the different properties visited?

Many thanks for helping out..