Thread: Problem while programming a simple game of Car moving on a road

EDIT: It kills my spaces. There's supposed to be five blankspace between the " and the l, and then five more before the second ".

Re-reading what I said it does come of as being awfully confusing. Here's my idea in pseudo code:

For (however long I want the game to continue)

print " l ", print player ("o"), print " l "
If Math.random(); > 0.5
Check if math.random is over 0.75, if so then remove one blank space from before the l, and add on to the other side, if not then do the opposite (remove one). Thereby moving one of the walls closer to the player, randomized which one for each loop.
Check if there are no blank spaces to the right of the l in the first string, or left of the l in the second string (therby making it touch the "o"), if so then quit the loop.
Thread.sleep(some number)
print int that is = how many times the loop has been run


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When run it should look something like this:

l o l
l o l
l o l
l o l
l o l
l o l
l o l
l o l
lo l

You cleared 9 obstacles!

Hey rojroj,

I don't think this is anywhere near as complicated as you require but here is an example I wrote:

import java.math.*;
import java.text.*;
 
public class Rojroj {
 
    public static String space1 = " ";
    public static String space2 = " ";
    public static String noSpace = "";
 
    public static String leftWall = "|";
    public static String rightWall = "|";
 
    public static String player = "o";
 
    public static int finalScore = 0;
    public static double randomDouble;
 
 
    public static void randomise(){
 
        DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.##");
        double rd = Math.random();
        randomDouble = Double.parseDouble(df.format(rd));
        //System.out.println(randomDouble);
 
        if(randomDouble >= 0.75){
            move();
        }
        else{
            noMove();
        }
 
    }
 
    public static void move(){
        finalScore++;
        System.out.println(leftWall + space1 + player + space2 + rightWall);
        randomise();
    }
 
    public static void noMove(){
 
        System.out.println(leftWall + player + space2 + rightWall);
        System.out.println(" ");
        System.out.println("Game Over! - You cleared " + finalScore + " obsticle(s)");
    }
 
 
    public static void main(String[] args){
 
        System.out.println(leftWall + space1 + player + space2 + rightWall);
        randomise();
 
    }
 
}

Example output:

| o |
| o |
| o |
| o |
|o |
 
Game Over! - You cleared 3 obsticle(s)