Better Tutorials

[bamf226]

Are there other tutorials out there that describe the toolset better? I went through the hearts tutorial and made it work, but all I did was copy code. There was little understanding in what I was pasting in despite being someone who teaches programming in several languages. From what I understand, we are using a toolset by example without documentation and the tutorial doesn't explain well what the code is doing. I feel it is more similar to IKEA directions than teaching how things work.

[vincentt]

Hi,

About the tutorials at least they exist
To know various functions and how they work, I work from here : http://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/Studio anchor BGA Studio documentation

Then you can still ask quesitons here, we will help you of course

Vincent

[RicardoRix]

Why are there so many magic numbers?

this for example:

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$machinestates = array(

    // The initial state. Please do not modify.
    1 => array(
        "name" => "gameSetup",
        "description" => clienttranslate("Game setup"),
        "type" => "manager",
        "action" => "stGameSetup",
        "transitions" => array( "" => 2 )
    ),
    
    // Note: ID=2 => your first state

    2 => array(
    		"name" => "playerTurn",
    		"description" => clienttranslate('${actplayer} must play a card or pass'),
    		"descriptionmyturn" => clienttranslate('${you} must play a card or pass'),
    		"type" => "activeplayer",
    		"possibleactions" => array( "playCard", "pass" ),
    		"transitions" => array( "playCard" => 2, "pass" => 2 )
    ),

Is it not possible to use words/strings rather than 1 and 2 ?

[A-dam]

Is it not possible to use words/strings rather than 1 and 2 ?

You can define your own constants as indicated here: http://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/Your_g ... for_States

Anyway, those are not magic numbers, it just idicates numerical ID of the state, nothing magical in it