Requirements
Some possible questions to ask:
- What are the rules of the game?
- What size is the grid?
- How many players are there? Player vs Computer? Player vs Player?
- Are we keeping track of the score?
Basics
- The game will be played by only two players, player vs player
- The game board should be of variable dimensions
- The target is to connect N discs in a row (vertically, horizontally or diagonally)
- N is a variable (e.g. connect 4, 5, 6, etc)
- There should be a score tracking system
- After a player reaches the target score, they are the winner
Design
High-level
- We will need a Grid class to maintain the state of the 2-D board
- The board cell can be empty, yellow (occupied by Player 1) or red (occupied by Player 2)
- The grid will also be responsible for checking for a win condition
- We can have a Player class to represent the player’s piece color
- This isn’t super important, but encapsulating information is generally a good practice
- The Game class will be composed of the Grid and Players
- The Game class will be responsible for the game loop and keeping track of the score
