Outline of Class 8: Game Simulation

A Simple Object-Oriented Game Simulation

• Today, instead of going over new Java concepts, we will work together and separately to design a simple Java game simulation.
• Suppose you are asked to simulate the game of racquetball (not visually, just "mathematically").
  • See assignment 2 for the rules to racquetball.
• What classes and objects might we include?
• Given a decision as to what classes to include, what methods should they provide?
• How should we test our classes?
• How might we extend this into a larger simluation?
• What else do we need to know to get our simulation working?

My Notes

• Don't read this section until after the discussion!
• I would suggest including the following classes
  • Player: keeps track of "characteristics" of players; plays for players.
  • ScoreBoard: keeps track of the score and who is serving. May determine end of game.
  • Game or Referee: Ties together players and the scoreboard.
• For more complex simulations, such as tournaments, or statistical simulations of a large number of games, one might also include:
  • RecordTable: keeps a history of all the games.
  • Tournament: organizes players; describes who plays next.
• For truly complex simulations, we might even add a Ball class, so that we use information on the ball to affect hitting and such.
• Players might have serve() and hit() methods.
• ScoreBoards would probably have reset(), scoreOne() and scoreTwo() methods.