2.4. Board concept

A Board is the playing board of BusRider.

A Board has:

• a collection of Routes,
• a collection of Segments,
• a collection of Junctions,
• the delivery payoff, for each pair of Termini, and
• the total popularity of the Termini.

A Board is represented by the Board class.

A Strategy can obtain a reference to the Board from the Game. All of the above data are visible.

The playing board is displayed by a Java Applet here.

The playing board is defined by, and loaded as, a text file, here. One can make and use one's own board file; instructions for incorporating it into the applet are here. The board-file itself contains comments describing its form.

Routes, Segments, and Junctions, and Termini are described in the following pages. "Total popularity" is explained in the Terminus page.