Software Engineering and Computer Games

Exercises

Exercise 18.1: Time the flow in Dambuilder

Let’s go back to the original inspiration for Dambuilder. It has this name in memory of the childhood activity of making dams in little streams. The goal in building dams like this is to make the water move through the system as slowly as possible, but without the water getting stuck in any one place (and overflowing one of the dams).

You can use the cursor tools to make new walls and move them. Click with the Equals cursor to copy, prick with the Pin cursor to delete, drag with the Hand cursor to move. This is how you ‘play the game’.

How do you tell how well you’re doing in Dambuilder? We need to have a score that calculates the average time that it takes a critter to fall from the top ...