Hi!
I’m currently working on a mobile puzzle/memory game based around of mobile device’s pattern lock screen!
Each time you ‘Unlock’ a phone, a lock screen will appear with a randomly generated sequence with no recurring numbers. This is done simply with an array of of numbers from 1-9, shuffled and resized to sequence limit.
Laid out in a grid, it appears like so:
1 - 2 - 3
4 - 5 - 6
7 - 8 - 9
I can’t create a system that will make a sequence where you don’t need to go ‘around’ a cell to reach another cell.
Example instead of: 3,7,9
I want 3,5,7,8,9 (although still only a pattern that is limited to the current sequence limit)
I’ve attempted a complicated system that randomly shuffles an array of 2D Vectors; 1 = 0,0. 2 = 1,0. 4 = 0,1. Then calculating each element of the 2d vector against the next in the sequence checking that the two had a difference larger than 2. If so it would remove or add one to x or y. The problem is that a new generated vector could then be a duplicate of a another element in the sequence. The problem is my current system is using a while loop and crashes after a 3rd element is added to the sequence.
Can anyone help?
