Making a fully functional game board with 2D Array

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I need to make a game board - using an array - for a Bomberman game remake in Processing.

This means the game board / array (which is rather large [9x9] and has 3 values [a,b,c] throughout), has to be able to:

• Define the color/sprite of the according fields
• Set the limit for where the character can walk
• Have unique properties for each value/field (one value represents the open space where the player can move around, another is a solid block, and another one breaks when a bomb is blown up next to it and transforms into an open field type)

I'm pretty much a programming noob and I barely a clue how to make all of this work.. I've already set up the array though which look like this:

    int [][] board =  { 
    {b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b},  
    {b, a, b, a, b, a, b, c, b}, 
    {b, c, c, a, a, a, a, a, b},
    {b, c, a, a, c, a, a, a, b}, 
    {b, c, c, b, a, b, c, a, b}, 
    {b, a, c, a, a, a, a, a, b}, 
    {b, b, a, b, c, b, b, c, b}, 
    {b, a, a, a, c, a, a, c, b}, 
    {b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b, b}  };

(>b is solid, a is walking space and c is breakable)

And I have managed to draw it as a monochrome chessboard. Now I just have to figure out how to give each value the properties of the according block type.

Thanks for any help in advance :)

Chrisir

Do you know classes and objects?

Easiest would be a class Cell for the board holding position and type (bomb...) and color for each cell

But not strictly necessary

Use 2D array as you have above - see tutorial on that

Use a double for loop to fill it from your list above

type[i][j] = board [i][j]; or just stick with the list you have

see below

Chrisir

Cell [] grid;

int unit = 200; // size of one tile

int wideCount ;
int highCount ;

String[] list = {"b", "c", "d", "QQ"}; 

// ---------------------------------------------------------

void setup() {  
  size(400, 400);

  noStroke();
  background(255);
  int count;
  wideCount = width / unit; 
  highCount = height / unit; 
  count = wideCount * highCount;



  grid = new Cell[count];

  int index = 0;
  int k=0; 
  for (int x=0; x< wideCount; x++) {
    for (int y=0; y< highCount; y++) {
      //start creating objects
      grid[index] = new Cell (x*unit, y*unit, unit, list[k]);
      index++;
      k++;
    }
  }
}
//
void draw() {
  //
  background(255);
  int index = 0;
  //
  for (int x=0; x< wideCount; x++) {
    for (int y=0; y< highCount; y++) {
      grid[index++].display();
    }
  }
}

// ========================================================================
// and the class


class Cell {
  float x, y;
  float side;
  String text=""; 
  //  int col;

  Cell (float tempX, float tempY, 
    float tempSide, 
    String tempText) {
    x = tempX;
    y = tempY;
    side = tempSide;
    text = tempText; 
    //
    float fate = random(2);
  }

  void display() {
    if (mouseX>x&&mouseX<x+side&&mouseY>y&&mouseY<y+side)
      fill(122, 0, 0); // dark
    else
      fill(255, 0, 0);  // light 
    stroke(255);
    rect (x, y, side, side);

    fill(255); 
    text(text, x+55, y+60);
  }
}