Games requiring lots of Blinks

[gpvillamil]

Hi Bruno! We met at the Robomaster S1 meetup at Nvidia a while back.

I see Jonathan has already sent you the link to the distributed task example:

Distributed Task Example (Counting Blinks)

This is really interesting. I’ve been puzzling over how to detect a victory condition across all blinks, and this is part of it, I think. I was using a message system very similar to yours, to broadcast state when connected, or when state changed. Then I maintain an array in each Blink holding the known state of all connected Blinks, indexed by their unique serial number. Then each Blink looks at their local array to verify that a victory condition is satisfied. If it is, send a message reques…

I have also been trying to figure out how to implement detection of a victory condition. The challenge I am finding is that communication is a little slow, so I can’t really check constantly. In “Raid” checking for victory is triggered manually.

Detecting a victory condition across multiple Blinks

While playing Fracture, I wondered if it would be possible to detect an “end of game” / victory condition across all connected Blinks. One possible strategy would be for Blinks to transmit a “not done” status message every second or so, maybe with a hop count attached. When a Blink has not received a “not done” message for longer than the transmit interval, it can switch to an “end of game” state. A challenge would be relaying the “not done” message to other non-contiguous Blinks. It might be…

Excited to see what you come up with, I’ll test out your code on my Blinks.