I'm making a turn based game in java for fun, it follows a set game flow pattern contained in a loop. I realized that once a player hits a win condition the game continues playing out the rest of the turn, possibly changing the victor.
Do I need to go back and put if statements everywhere so nothing is executed once a victor is declared? Is there a more elegant solution?
Instead of doing that, just make sure to not allow the game to change the victor. If your language has getters and setters, then inside the victor's setter check if it already has been defined. Only change it, if it wasn't. If it doesn't support native setters, then simply create a setter method with the same goal and make the variable private.
you should break the loop when the condition is reached. most programming languages provide mechanismens to break a loop.
example language:
do{
player.performAction();
boolean playerHasWon = checkPlayerWinCondidtion();
if( playerHasWon){
//maybe perform other actions here, ut later and ultimatly...break
break; //breaks the loop here
}
opponent.performAction();
boolean opponentHasWon = checkOpponentWinCondition();
if(opponentHasWon){
break; //breaks the loop here
}
while(true);
not that you need an endless loop, just as an example...
anyway for your question: yes, you answered that thign already correct. you have to use if statements, that would be the proper way to do it... there are fancy ways of programming such stuff but in the end it is the right way to do it.
