A small C# helperclass for boardgame-applications: allowable moves

Our students are creating classic boardgames using Silverlight. A problem that kept occurring was the following: “A player throws a certain number with the dice. How do I know, given his current location on the board, to which squares on the board the player is allowed to move to”.

I’ve written a small utility class that can be (re)used for simple applications where you have 2-dimensional map with certain squares on which the player can stand, and other not.
You can download the project here. Feel free to reuse/adapt. I’ve included to demo-usages.

Usage

Using the BoardMove class is, I think, fairly simple.
First you have to create a map on which you note what squares are allowable for a player to stand on. A ‘1’ denotes that this square is allowed to be moved to:

    List<List<int>> map= new List<List<int>>
    {
        new List<int>(){1,1,1,1,1,1},
        new List<int>(){1,0,1,0,0,1},
        new List<int>(){1,1,1,1,0,0},
        new List<int>(){0,0,0,1,1,0},
        new List<int>(){1,1,1,1,0,0},
        new List<int>(){1,0,1,0,0,1},
        new List<int>(){1,0,1,1,1,1}
    };

Next we feed this map to our BoardMove object:

    BoardMover bm = new BoardMover(map);

If we now wish to know the allowable moves, giving a begin location and the number of moves, we do the following:

    List<Point> posiblities = new List<Point>();
    posiblities = bm.GetPossibleMoves(speler, moves);

We now have a list of Points, i.e. (x,y) coordinates on the map, to which the player can move to.
That’s all.

Important note: I am by no means an AI or Path-finding coder, so what I’ve written is workable, but by no means a most optimal solutions. Feel free to comment.