rogue speed (roguelike in Python, #5)

Tonight I made a rough draft of the phase order speed system I talked about earlier and described by Jeff Lait here.

You can see that the phase count (the turns in ‘update time’) is higher than the turn count (‘game time’) as phase count increments with the fast and quick phases.

Right now the implementation is pretty simple…I’m trying to keep everything readable, somewhat verbose and obvious. So here is what I put in the game class:

        self.phases = ['fast', 'normal', 'slow', 'quick', 'normal']
        self.phase_dict = {
                            'fast' : ('fast', 'normal', 'slow'),
                            'normal' : ('normal', 'slow'),
                            'slow' : ('normal'),
                            'quick' : ('normal', 'slow', 'quick'),
                            'fastquick' : ('fast', 'normal', 'slow', 'quick'),
                            'fastslow' : ('fast', 'normal'),
                            'quickslow' : ('quick', 'normal'),
                            'fastquickslow' : ('fast', 'normal', 'quick')}

        self.phase = self.phases[0]
        self.phase_count = 0

Then after you give a brain a speed like ‘normal’ or ’slow’ you can test if a thing takes a turn on a particular phase with this conditional:

if game.phase in game.phase_dict[brain.speed]

Probably a little crude, and it may get a little convoluted to change speeds later (from fastquickslow, say, to fastslow), but this was a simple way to get the ball rolling.