Radically restructure game mechanics
John Smith commited on 2022-341 23:25:47
Showing 1 changed files, with 15 additions and 31 deletions.
Now, instead of having a fixed number of trials per game, the game has a fixed total time, and the player must answer as many questions as they can within that time; the game provides a total score based on quantity and quality of those responses.
- main.lua ddf3310..b26e816
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@@ -14,53 +14,37 @@ local TYPES = {
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ln = {
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-- how to generate the problem (returns problem-object) |
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gen = function() |
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- return math.exp(6.9 * (2 * math.random() - 1)) |
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+ return math.exp(6.9 * math.random()) |
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end, |
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-- how to present the problem (for string.format) |
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disp = "ln(%.2f)", |
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-- produce correct answer-object from problem-object |
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func = math.log, |
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- -- check if guess g for problem p is correct |
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- good = function(p, g) return math.abs(math.log(p) - g) < 0.05 end, |
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+ -- check quality of guess g for problem p |
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+ score = function(p, g) return -(math.log(math.abs(math.log(p) - g), 10) + 1.5)^3 end, |
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}, |
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} |
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-- ideally, configure these parameters with options/inputs |
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-local COUNT = 10 |
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local TYPE = TYPES.ln |
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-local TRIES = 1 |
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-local TIME = 4 |
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+local TIME = 30 |
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-local sc = 0 |
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-local oc = 0 |
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-for i = 1,COUNT do |
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+local ts = 0 |
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+local st = os.time() |
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+local pc = 0 |
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+while os.time() - st < TIME do |
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local rp = TYPE.gen() |
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local ans = TYPE.func(rp) |
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io.write(string.format(TYPE.disp .. " ? ", cup(rp))) |
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io.flush() |
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- local st = os.time() |
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- local inp |
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- local fails = 0 |
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- while true do |
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inp = tonumber(io.read("l")) or 0
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- if os.time() - st > TIME then |
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- if TYPE.good(rp, inp) then |
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- oc = oc + 1 |
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- end |
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- io.write(string.format("too slow! (%.2f)\n", ans))
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- break |
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- elseif TYPE.good(rp, inp) then |
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- io.write("✓ correct\n")
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- sc = sc + 1 |
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- break |
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- elseif fails < TRIES then |
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- io.write("wrong, try again ")
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- io.flush() |
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- fails = fails + 1 |
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+ local sc = TYPE.score(rp, inp) |
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+ if sc > 0 then |
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+ io.write(string.format("✓ correct (%.3f)\n", ans))
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else |
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- io.write(string.format("wrong (%.2f)\n", ans))
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- break |
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- end |
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+ io.write(string.format("wrong (%.3f)\n", ans))
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end |
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+ ts = ts + sc |
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+ pc = pc + 1 |
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end |
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-io.write(string.format("%d/%d correct, of which %d were too slow\n", (sc + oc), COUNT, oc))
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+io.write(string.format("score %.1f from %d problems in %.1f seconds\n", ts, pc, TIME))
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