Azkaban - no....HOSPITAL!

+Vivian Luu  brought up a good point! I've officially made my "jail" St. Mungo's rather than Azkaban. Cause, well, jail is kind of boring. 

Anyways, so now the picture for St. Mungo's is the inside of the hospital and the picture for "Go to St. Mungo's" is a picture of the arrogant fool...Gilderoy Lockhart...

More Ideas for Pawns

So I've been thinking...these are my favourite characters from the series: 

• Hermione Granger
• Harry Potter
• Luna Lovegood
• Ronald Weasley
• Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
• Sherlock Holmes
• John Watson 
• Merlin 
• Arthur
• Gaius 
• Lucy
• Edmund 
• Beavers 
• Bilbo Baggins
• Gollum/Deagol

And now this is turning into a list, but what can I say?? I CAN'T PICK AND CHOOSE MY FAVOURITES :( 

I suppose I should limit to 1-2 characters per fandom so it's possible to fit at least one of each. But that's hard...

Hmm, anyways, I'm going to have to read about JLayeredPanes soon to find out how to make the pawn move from one box to another...

ALL THE TILES!...Almost done!

So here are the tiles so far! :D I'm just missing the colours on the background representing the properties. At least it's ... well not really done done but :D 

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Yes, I know, this blog is meant for Computer Science, but today marks the 15th Anniversary of The Wizarding War in Harry Potter. We lost Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, Fred Weasley, Sirius Black (we may not have lost him on the date, but we lost him for the cause), Albus Percival Wulfric Dumbledore, and many others. 

Most importantly, U No Poo is dead. 

RIP Tonks, Lupin, Fred, Sirius, Albus and all the others that died in the War.

Yippeee!

I am not done all the game board pieces, but I have all the pictures for the following properties: 

1. Start (I'm going on an adventure) 
2. Borgin and Burkes
3. Room of Requirement
4. Roland Kerr College from Sherlock 
5. Camelot's Annual Tax (Which is really just Arthur Pendragon's picture - technically just Bradley James) 
6. Redhaven
7. Piccadilly Circus
8. Platform 9 and 3/4 
9. Speedy Cafe
10. Lake of Avalon
11. Isengard
12. Grimmauld Place
13. Taxi 
14. Quidditch Pitch
15. Rising Sun (From Merlin) 
16. Hagrid's Hut
17. Aslans Country
18. 221 Baker Street
19. Enter the Wardrobe
20. Northumberland Street
21. Beaversdam
22. Ministry of Magic
23. GO TO JAIL 
24. Mordor
25. Bagshot Row
26. Ealdor
27. Hogwarts Express
28. Camelot's Citadel
29. Hogwarts

Update on Gameboard

So...I've created a few of the pictures and things for the game board. Here's an example of one: 

So basically, all the pictures are going to look similar to this, but the fill will be different for each colour. Then I will has to find out how to make layered panes for one to show up on top of the other. But yeah, good start so far :) 

BAH!

BAH! 

Well...hmm. I can't use a gridLayout to show the things. .

 Ryk said that I'd have to find another way to display them to the screen.

 Might have to do a button and so when the person lands on it, the centre shows information about the property

All the properties have to contain a JPEG or  PNG containing the colour, the icon, the price (in galleons), and name of property. 

I'm not a hundred percent sure exactly how to lay out the board, but at least I have a start for now. 

At least my game board is going to be as colourful as here :D    

Noooo! ;o

It's not working! The words aren't lining up at all! This is going to be a little bit of a problem...O_O

Layout of Gameboard

Just realized...

For all the properties, I just realized that I'm going to need pictures for all those properties and I'm going to have to insert them into the gameboard manually. So I was thinking instead of having one row on the N, S, E, and W of GridLayouts, it should have 2 rows - one for the picture. And the other for the price of the property and the name of the property along with the colour. 

Although one thing I can do is add the price to the picture manually. And to make the colour of the text representative of the colour that is on the card and on the property. Hmm, sounds cool. I think. 

I hope it works though. I'm not quite sure how to display the fact that one's piece is on the place though. Like it's going to have to be a colour that stands out on every other square but there's no similar colour. And so it's a bit hard. Unless I make each small little panel has a square in which represents the character cause I wanted to make the little characters characters in the series rather than things like TVs or roller skates. 

I was thinking: 

• Harry Potter
• Sherlock Holmes
• John Watson
• Bilbo Baggins
• Gandalf
• Lucy 
• Merlin 
• Arthur

But I'm not sure of the characters just yet. But those are just a few random things that came to mind. 

Oh no :(

Uh oh! Uh oh! 

I'm behind schedule! I was supposed to finish the instruction screen, the menu screen by today! NOOOOO! :O 

Well looks like I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow night...-_- 

Welcome Screen Completed

WELCOME SCREEN! 

The welcome screen is finally finally done, except for the fact that it is entirely colourless cause I still don't know what colour to make it. Even though, green and brown looks natury, I'm thinking something that's related to all the fandoms. 

I might just add a massive picture in the middle that relates to all fandoms. Maybe photoshopped. 

Oh well, starting to program the game board now... :/ 

MainPanel is going to be in a BorderLayout then the sides are all going to be grid layouts with just 1 column. And all the little squares will contain a property of something in which you have to pay. 

The centre will contain a picture then 2 buttons: 

1) To find out how much is in the pot (Tavern/Rising Sun AKA Free Parking) 
2) To pick up a card from the Room of Requirement (AKA Chance or Community Chest) as it is squashed into one.