1 Utility for Games

[patrice]

(03-11-2014 03:18 PM)Han Wrote:  

(01-27-2014 07:50 AM)patrice Wrote:  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.

Even shorter is to code multiple $'s in the form n$. For example, $$$ should be coded as 3$. It shouldn't be all that hard to create a small program to convert from matrix over to a string -- it's easier to edit a matrix than it is to create a string and keep all the codes correct.

You perfectly right, if you look at the decoder, you will see that it handle the case already.
I didn't handled it in the coder for 3 reason:

• 3 or more empty lines in a row is not very common over the 40 levels.
• it complicate the encoder for only a very little gain.
• I like to see all the $ , it help me do manual checking of the coding.
  

If you like it, feel free to tweak the various levels, it saves a bout 30 chars across the 40 levels.
When I first put it in Sokoban, I didn't removed the drawscreen() comand which have a side effect, it removes the pusher from the level matrix. So I have done some manual testing before I understood where was the problem.