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14th April 2019
As much as I've been struggling on with a flu, for the past few days, yesterday completely floored me.

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Spent much of the day curled up in bed, sniffling and blowing my nose, in the way that any man will happily play-dead with such symptoms.
I managed to get a little of Ludo working, but realistically my head wasn't in a good place for figuring out all the co-ordinates and the like.

At least I managed to pull off some rotational maths to get the other three player's board layout working, without needing to hardcode every single square on the grid!
.. I only had to hardcode one of the players, then used simple maths to rotate the layout..



If my mind was more fit and alert, I'm sure I could also have managed to find a way to get the first player's path, programmatically. But my mind wasn't quite awake enough for that, so instead I sat and counted grid references, and plotted the numbers by hand.
For those interested, there are 57 squares that you can land on in Ludo.

Today I need to get the AI to work, and that should (hopefully) be a little easier on the mind.
Should be ready to go, later today, but I'll probably hold it back for a bit to double check my flu-riddled coding, which usually brings obscure bugs along with it!

(.. like.. Why did I think it was a good idea to assign x and y values, above, when I could've just plonked the values inside the function..!?)
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