Theoretical Question

Hello Fellow Developers!
I am working on a hunger game type of plugin and had a theoretical question about the implementation.
How would you go back tracking each game that is currently going on, and checking for winners, etc...
Because at any given time, there could be 'x' amount of games in progress, how would you keep track of the events in each game (a user won the game, etc...)
Thank you!
Regards,
TOD.

 

You use arenas. There have been multiple arena tutorials here on the forums. Here are a few.
https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tutorial-make-a-minigame-plugin.168164/
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tut-create-a-minigame-with-arena-names.193908/

 

cfil360
Arenas actually don't have much to do with this, but they sure are essential in minigame plugins.

ThatOneDev123
It depends on how you want to do it. If you e.g have a score limit of 50, and you earn a score by killing an enemy player, you would probably want to use PlayerDeathEvent and check if the score now is the score limit, then end the game. If you want, you can start a conversation with me and I'll do my best to answer any questions you have about minigames.

 

Assist ThatOneDev123 he is asking how to keep his score variables from conflictting with each other. The best way is by having different but similar objects aka arenas. I think this would be your best bet to solving this and it helps with future plugins.

 

ThatOneDev123 Take advantage of OOP in this case, create a new instance class with something along the lines of "arena". Keep values in it such as participants, lobby location, anything you want. Then you can just create a new object of that class.

 

If you want you can take a look on how I do this in one of my plugins. Basically I create a task for each event that is happening that checks if any of the players that is in the event has won.
https://github.com/gkovalechyn/Auto...alechyn/automaticevents/events/Event.java#L92

 

First of all thank you everyone for the replies, I appreciate it. In response to your reply, I had actually thought of this, but how would it keep checking that object? Would I need to schedule tasks, that keep going through each running game every 1 second and then checking its stats? Or is there like some loop in that arena object that is always running?