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Java

Posted by kristoffer tølbøll
kristoffer tølbøll
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Stuck in a TextAdventure game

Hello, i'm making a textadventure game, and i'm making an A.I that roams around the different rooms i made. I made a human player (with user input), that roams around aswell, if they encouter eachother the human dies. At the moment i just hardcoded the options in, using a random class, so if it is possible for the A.I to go a certain way it will go that way.

take a look here:

if(getCurrentPosition().getNorth() != null) { movements.add("North"); } if(getCurrentPosition().getSouth() != null) { movements.add("South"); } if(getCurrentPosition().getWest() != null) { movements.add("West"); } if(getCurrentPosition().getEast() != null) { movements.add("East"); }

int move = rnd.nextInt(4) + 1; switch(move) { case 1: if(getCurrentPosition().getNorth() != null) { setCurrentPosition(getCurrentPosition().getNorth()); System.out.println("\n\nMONSTER MOVED NORTH"); movement = true; break; } else { break; } case 2: if(getCurrentPosition().getSouth() != null) { setCurrentPosition(getCurrentPosition().getSouth()); System.out.println("\n\nMONSTER MOVED SOUTH"); movement = true; break; } else { break; } case 3: if(getCurrentPosition().getWest() != null) { setCurrentPosition(getCurrentPosition().getWest()); System.out.println("\n\nMONSTER MOVED WEST"); movement = true; break; } else { break; } case 4: if(getCurrentPosition().getEast() != null) { setCurrentPosition(getCurrentPosition().getEast()); System.out.println("\n\nMONSTER MOVED EAST"); movement = true; break; } else { break; } default: break;

can i make these into an arraylist so the A.I goes through the valid options of rooms avalible instead of it just trying till it reaches a valid room.

(here is the github link https://github.com/MalikSh96/TAG.git)

thank you very much in advance.