Need help with a logic problem, as well as understanding recursive functions

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@jup

Ah, I think i get it. Do you think this can be used for different situations? The smoke isnt just being moved behind the player. in other situations I’d like for the smoke to move ahead of the player and around the player

The get_neighbors functions purpose is to calculate ahead of the player and around the player (e.g. whereever the player isn’t but where smoke needs to be)

No difference. You just add those nearby cells to your dictionary as well.

Note that you can also store a timestamp with arrow data and age/remove the arrow with time if you want effect to diminish. Since the dictionary only contains relevant cells, you don’t need to do any searching/retrieval, just iterate the dictionary, as I already noted.

I’d in fact suggest making a small inner class that holds arrow data and storing an object of that class as a dictionary value. That way you can add more stored parameters as you develop the system.

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And always remember this ancient Fred Brooks wisdom

Or as Torvalds would put it in a modernized version of the same wisdom: