Game Piece Interactions

[archerbird]

We need to implement a way for game pieces to interact with pacman when they share the same tile as their IGamePiece.CurrentTile

Off the top of my head:

• Pellets should be eaten and disappear from the view. Score should be incremented. Any game rules that depend on remaining pellets should be triggered
• Ghosts in Scatter or Chase mode should kill pacman
• Ghosts in Frightened mode should die and travel back to the ghost house for respawn
• Super Pellets should be eaten and trigger frightened mode.

[retailcoder]

I think this all needs to be handled at the controller level; if map tiles are storing their state (e.g. HasPellet), then the map can raise an event when something happens that the controller should know about and pull whatever strings need to be pulled to e.g. toggle ghost modes.

[archerbird]

I think this all needs to be handled at the controller level; if map tiles are storing their state (e.g. HasPellet), then the map can raise an event when something happens that the controller should know about and pull whatever strings need to be pulled to e.g. toggle ghost modes.

This comment makes me worry that I've put way too much game logic in the models :-/

[archerbird]

I guess the way I'm thinking about this is kind of like having a Controller class for each of the models that wraps the model and encapsulates logic for how it moves and interacts. Though, currently I have all this controller logic and state logic all in one model class (for each model type)