Chess board-like

#1 A tilemap is probably your best bet. You can add custom data to each tile and the editor is very easy to use. I wouldn't go hog wild with a 1000x1000 tilemap... but otherwise it should suffice.
-Andrew

#2 Tilemap or a well-controlled two-deminsion array, any other ideas?

#3 In the CheckersDemo I use a Tile Map for placing of the pieces (and as a logical + interactive board). In the end I stored no data on it since I simply used either an array or two-dimensional array for that. For Chess I'd say a Tile Map would be perfect (even if invisible if you have a board image).

#4 A tilemap seems like a good resource; let me explain what I'm trying to do and perhaps you can swing me some advice.

This isn't exactly my idea, but for saving typing a lot, think Chess, with walls. Each square could contain a wall between the two, preventing certain moves. So I'd think I'd need a "square"/"tile" to represent the wall (if there is one there).

If I used a tilemap and displayed it, theres no way to make thin or invisible "every other tile" for walls. I guess I could use it as just an invisible object... then move on another imagemap/tilemap....

Plus each square could contain data such as what peice is in it, what color it is, and 4 or 5 different peices of data.

Right now being new to programming, I thought of using like

$gameBoardArray[10,10]

then say square 2,2 has a knight, is black, is on fire and has 10 coins in it

i'm not sure how i'd save all that different data to the variable

$gameBoardArray[2,2] = ?

because things like $gameBoardArray[2,2].coins or .bIsOnFire

doesn't seem to be legit syntax or possible

so could you guys throw me some advice on how I'd basicaly setup a tilemap or 2d array to contain lots of data for each bucket, or how that is typically done?

I suppose I could always use just a long string and parse it for data but that seems ... hacky?

thanks in advance

#5 I know this is an old thread but why not,

$GameBoardArray[2, 2, Piece] = "Knight";
$GameBoardArray[2, 2, Colour] = "Black";
$GameBoardArray[2, 2, Coins] = 10;

I don't see why

$gameBoardArray[2,2].coins = 10;

wouldn't work? It does look a little strange but it's perfectly legitimate. You have an array item, at position 2, 2, with member variables.

#6 Or just store everything within the tilemap itself.