[php] printing a chessboard-like dungeon.

[Age of Fable]

I've just started working on a game similar to ChessRogue.

Both ChessRogue and my game take place in a dungeon whose inhabitants' movements are like those of chess pieces.

At http://www.apolitical.info/private/rogue/levelgen , I've got some code which creates a dungeon level, and prints it. EDIT I've changed the code so it prints plain text rather than a table with background colors.

However this appears to be very slow compared to printing plain text. This is a problem because I want the game to be browser-based. However the chessboard setup should be helpful for telling (eg) if two creatures are on the same diagonal.

Is there a faster way to get the same effect I've got here?

[hallsofvallhalla]

yes, first off you are using tables..that is tooo many.

Look at my javascript/ajax tutorials. I have a way of build 100's of divs very fast and it assigns each div a tag. For mine they are 30 across.
So I know
to the left of current div is -1
to the right is +1
up on is -30
down one is +30

so if I want to check to see if the diagonal div up and to the left of my player i do a simple

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$checkdiv = playerdiv - 31;
if($checkdiv = $monster)
{
do this!
}

http://indie-resource.com/forums/viewto ... =26&t=2283

[Age of Fable]

Which one/s do I need to look at?

[hallsofvallhalla]

http://indie-resource.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=26