Instructions for creating a level

[danShumway]

Technical instructions + Design instructions on how to build a level.

• what directory to drag a file into
• making sure a level is solvable
• chopping off extra characters when making a level on Windows (?)

[mstubinis]

going to leave this here for dealing with CRLF problems.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-unix-linux-convert-dos-newlines-cr-lf-unix-text-format/

[mstubinis]

i fixed the CRLF problem in class today. meaning bullet point 3 in the OP is fixed. I guess bullet point 1 is also working too, all the levels are in the levels directory

[danShumway]

We just need instructions for how levels work at this point, which basically boils down to copying in this code from the level file.

                                     Level text file key                                                  

1 - 9: addition gate with the number being the amount added

p,o,i,u,y,t,l,k,j: subtraction gate

p : 1
o : 2
i : 3
u : 4
y : 5
t : 6
l : 7
k : 8
j : 9

: obstacle (a bush for example)                                                                          

• : blank tile

[danShumway]

The one change to make is that we need to have a way of giving the required total for the exit -
We could just continue along the same row - hgfdsamnb...

[mstubinis]

i think the best approach to the total for the exit is to make the number be the first line in the file since this value is not dependent on level positioning. the code to find the value should be simply parsing the line and then parsing int values from the line.