Hello, I need to recreate a boardgame, without using Pygame; called squadro. Here are the rules;
In Squadro, two players are racing to cross the board and then get home again. One player moves their pieces in a straight line horizontally, while the other player only moves perpendicular to them. All of your pieces exist on a single axis of movement: while the game is played in two dimensions, each piece only ever moves in one. Each piece moves an amount of spaces shown by the dots beside its starting slot. Every turn, a player chooses one of their five pieces and moves it forward. If that piece reaches the edge of the board, it turns around, and will move the opposite direction on future turns (in the hopes of getting back home). If a player gets four of their five pieces home, they win.
There are a few clever tricks here that make Squadro the tense game of tactical negotiation that it is. The first is what happens when a piece crosses paths with an opponent piece.
If your piece is supposed to land on or pass over one or more opponent pieces, it passes over, then lands on the next available space. The opponent piece (or pieces) is then sent back to whatever side it just came from. Sometimes that’s okay. Sometimes it hurts. This is because Squadro has a twist that makes rushing difficult. Each player has some pieces that move a single space per turn. They also have pieces that can jaunt along at three spaces a pop. When either of these pieces reaches the end of the board, their movement speed is flipped. Coming back home, that three space sprinter is now crawling along at one space a turn (oof). On the other hand, if you managed to get a single-spacer all the way to the end, now it can bolt back home at three spaces a turn.
This means that players are constantly trying to position their pieces to minimize losses, all while threatening their opponent’s pieces with some clever positioning. The game quickly becomes a stand-off. Since you can’t pass on your turn, this is an impasse that someone will be forced to break — whether they want to or not.
Here is the table that I need to recreate but with the pieces that need to move.