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Motivation

In HeroQuest, a hero can do one action per turn (move then action or action then move).  The choices for an action are

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Motivation

In previous posts I

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Labor Day weekend gave me an opportunity to implement pathfinding.  Here’s notes on some of what I read.  BFS (breadth first search) explores equally in all directions.  Dijkstra favors lower cost paths.  A* is modified Dijkstra optimized for a single dst (uses heuristic to search towards dst).  A* is the standard pathfinding for games (I also used it in college game projects ~12-14 years ago), so it

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I gave

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As described in my visibility post, my rules interpretation uses two kinds of visibility

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My previous post discussed my rules interpretation for visibility (what a Hero can

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I have a childhood memory (I think it really happened!) that when I first tried HeroQuest with my father, without really reading the rule book, I opened the quest book and setup the entire board for the first quest.  On Zargon

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I packaged my game for Android.  Overall it was mostly painless

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Interpreting Source Material
When porting content from one media to another (such as book/comic to movie) (or doing a remake), the source material gives a lot of guidance, but there are still plenty of decisions to make.  With HeroQuest, I’m leaning heavily towards making it authentic.  But it is a video game, and I’ve decided to have the program do rules and a campaign and AI (unlike the Tabletop Simulator version)

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In my prior work post, I described HeroScribe as the

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