Computing @Trinity: Saturday 9th May 2015:
Some examples of VB.net console based games
* 1: Console Ashes Cricket
Cricket game using random number generator in VB.net
Australia bat first and achieve a random score between 200 and 671
Each England batsman 1-11 bats and achieve a score between 0 and Max of 151 *
BUT with each Batsman the maximum possible decreases by 11
Batsman 2 Max = 140
Batsman 3 Max = 129 etc...
Each Batsman's score is added to the England total
After Batsman 11 is out England total and Oz total compared
The Winner is declared
* 2: AQAdo Console based board game:
AQADo is a turn-based game where two players compete to move both of their pieces to the end of the board.
The board consists of 11 spaces. Each player has two pieces.
At the start of the game all the pieces are placed on the first space of the board (START).
The first, fifth and eleventh spaces on the board are safe spaces.
Figure 1 shows the state at the start of a game.
In Figure 1 the players’ pieces are shown as black or red circles,
safe spaces are highlighted in green
The board is shown with the starting position (START) as the bottom space and the finishing position (FINISH) as the top space.