1 Utility for Games

[patrice]

Bonjour Cyrille,

I think it do not apply, unless it is permitted to have source code in ASCII which I doubt.

In fact, the idea is to save space in source code and in compiled code.

The problem with games using levels, it is that there is a map per level, Ariel is planning 100 levels for Sokoban
One level in actual source code looks like

Code:

matriz := [ [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0], [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,4,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,2,2,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,2,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,3,3,3,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0] ];

a simple conversion to a string looks like

Code:

"...................$...................$...................$........wwww.......$​​......wwws.ww......$......w.cc..w......$......w..c..w......$......w.....w......​$​......www..ww......$........w...w......$........wdddw......$........wwwww.....​.$​...................$...................$...................$"

a clever use of background lead to

Code:

"$$$........wwww$......wwws.ww$......w.cc..w$......w..c..w$......w.....w$......ww​​w..ww$........w...w$........wdddw$........wwwww$$$$"

and an RLE coding gives

Code:

"$$$9b4w$7b3wsb2w$7bwb2c2bw$7bw2bc2bw$7bw5bw$7b3w2b2w$9bw3bw$9bw3dw$9b5w$$$!"

The hard part is to replace the matrices in source code by the strings and decode them on fly as needed.