Making a dedicated minigame?

• What I need help with: Alright. Hey everyone. So today I have a somwthing I would like someone to help me with. Basicly I've been coding Bukkit plugins for around 2/3 months now, and I was thinking about making a decdicated minigame. The thing is, in terms of coding like what happens and everything like that I know what to do, but when it comes to like making the game stages and stuff, I have no idea what to do. I have tried looking up minigame plugins and stuff like that to get source code from but I didn't really find anything, so I though I would make this post.
• What I mean as a didecated plugin (example): A quick example I can think off is a OneInTheChamber plugin, that has lobby time, then it goes starting (like you're not in lobby but the game hasn't started yet), then it has game time and then it has endgame and it restarts. Also every game stage is in a different class.

That's really all, so if anyone can help me with that it would be awesome Also, if you do not want to explain but you know how to do it, source code works fine as well. Thanks for reading this everyone.

 

pingochi99

That may be better suited over in the "Plugin Requests" forum. If you are planning on coding it yourself, here's my words of advice: "Schedulers, Event handlers, and OOP"

 

Ten things to keep in mind when writing a minigame:

1. OOP
2. OOP
3. OOP
4. OOP
5. OOP
6. Seriously, do not use the static keyword. *
7. OOP
8. OOP
9. Have a very clear plan of how the plugin will work before touching the code.
10. Seriously, OOP

* If you need some sort of little variable that's accessible everywhere, fine, but if your arena implementation is a collection of static maps holding data, re-read the list.

 

Time to be a giant noob, but what is OOP?

 

Epixpenguin
Object Orientated Programming

 

Thanks to everyone who replied, but can anyone show me like the structure of what it would look like?

 

Here is a good place to look at: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tut-create-a-minigame-with-arena-names.193908/ However, just judging by that you didn't know what OOP was, I think you should learn some basic java before tackling a minigame.

 

Garris0n Needs more OOP if you ask me....
pingochi99 There are pleanty of open-source minigames that have good structures, like https://github.com/Double0negative/Survival-Games/tree/master/src/main/java/org/mcsg/survivalgames (looks structured fairly well)