Chapter 3, Exercise 1 – Board Layouts

Each row of the game board is offset to form a staggered pattern. Change the code in createLayout so the bubbles form a regular grid. How will this change the game?

Change on line in the createLayout function in board.js:

var createLayout = function(){
  var rows = [];
  for(var i=0;i<NUM_ROWS;i++){
    var row = [];
    var startCol = 0;
    for(var j=startCol;j<NUM_COLS;j+=2){
      var bubble = BubbleShoot.Bubble.create(i,j);
      row[j] = bubble;
    };
    rows.push(row);
  };
  return rows;
};

The grid is now regular and very odd looking, and it looks like it’s going to be much harder to join groups of bubbles together!