Mitch's Thoughts

game mode interface:

setGameList(games): mode is passed the list of selected games before it becomes the active game mode

hasNextGame(): true/false if there are more games to be played

nextGame(): next game to play

nextPlayer(): next player's name

setResults(float): set results of the game that was just played

game interface:

makeGameInstance(self, objectToFill, {difficulty=?, pastGames=?})

fills up a game object ready to be used

needs lua callbacks

gload - called before game is run

gdraw - draw the state

gupdate(dt) - called on update

keyPressed... etc.

Difficulties: array of strings from ["easy","medium","difficult","impossible"]

PR: string from ["child","rit","sse"]

Keys: array of string from ["full]

isDone(): boolean, should game end early

getResults(): float number -1.0 to 1.0 for how well the player did. For Pass fail anything >0 is considered pass. (Otherwise just more positive is better)

Main Game Procedure:

(While I've written procedural code, this is acutally going to have to be encapsulated as state and evaluated during love's update)

Find and light load all games (don't call their preLoad method here)

Show User Screen they can pick and choose games with, by options (difficulty, PR etc). Use Done button to move on

Show User screen they can pick individual games out with (for the ones we know to be broken etc). Use done button to move on

Find and load all game modes

Loop:

Show User a screen with game modes and descriptions of modes, have them select one

Ask game mode for its options screen game

Run options screen game until complete

Loop while gameMode:hasNexGame():

get next game and player from gameMode

call games preLoad

show splash screen with keys used and player that is up

swap in game instead of showing splash screen

wait until game's time is up, or game reports isDone

gameMode:setResults(game:getResults())

Run game mode's results screen as a game