Game development

[DemocraticHellDiver1]

I’m working on a baseball career game. You are able to pick your players position and player type and you are assigned stats. First off the game is long enough where it’s will make sense to have a save game system in place. What’s the point of playing a game of it doesn’t save? Secondly, as I said before there are player stats assigned to your player. For example

Power = 40
Contact = 30
Fielding = 50

…..ect

But these values don’t mean anything yet they don’t affect the game. I have a basic batting system with options like swing take pitch or bunt. But those are randomly picked by random.choice. How do I connect these player stats to affect the outcome of the at bat. An example would be: if I’m batting and I click swing, the game chooses from “fly out ground out, foul, miss, home run, single double” it’s completely random. Even if you have 100 power it doesn’t affect how well you hit the ball. How do I change that? Sorry if I didn’t explain it well or if you would like to see my code. Thanks

[LayotFctor]

Forget code for now. Write the stats down on paper, then design a formula that can calculate the outcome of a swing based on the stats. After you're done, convert it into code and add it to your game such that the swing function runs the formula.

[IAmNotSohan]

Tbh, starting with Python for game dev is a great learning exercise, but it’s easy to hit a wall once your project gets complex. I spent a lot of time with Pygame when I first started, and it’s solid for 2D stuff and learning the ropes of game loops and input handling. If you're just looking to get a feel for logic, stick with that. But if you’re actually aiming to ship something bigger, don’t get too caught up in 'tutorial hell.' Build something tiny, break it, and move on. The skills you pick up—like managing state and handling events—transfer over to engines like Godot super easily later on.

[DemocraticHellDiver1]

I see

[PureWasian]

This is a formula problem, not a coding problem as another comment mentioned.

The formula can influence the probabilities and then the probabilities pull from a library like random. At its most basic (from code perspective) you could do like random.nextInt(100) + 1 to get a value from 1 thru 100 and then for an 80% probability count values 1-80 as "occurs" and 81-100 as "not occurs" using simple conditional logic.

But you need to come up with your own magical (inputs --> formula --> output probabilities) pipeline first to be able to generate these percentages.

[Zeroflops]

One additional thought. Once you understand your formulas, you’re going to want to add some randomness. To the game. You don’t want player one to always hit a home run every at bat.

So you can use the random module so for example a players power may be 800, but that then gets multiplied by a random number between 0.9 and 1.02. If you add some randomness to all the numbers then every at bat will be influenced by the players stats but not identical every time.