Count off!

With the help of objects, we conveniently described the players and we now use this data in the function. We have fewer parameters, but once again the question arises about the increase in the number of game participants. What if there are ten of them? Should we then create more objects? Yes! But there are two disadvantages:

• The number of parameters will increase with the number of players.
• The code in the function body will keep growing, because for each player there is a line for increase in points and log of results in the console. The more players, the longer the code in the function will be.

It would be great to write the function code so that it would work for any number of players. Is there such a structure that can store a lot of data and which is convenient to process? Yes! Arrays! And you are already familiar with them!

Here is a short reminder just in case: an array is a list of elements. Each of them has a sequential number. Arrays and reading from them look like this:

// Number array
var array = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50];

// Let’s read elements from the array by index (sequential number)
console.log(array[0]); // Logs 10
console.log(array[3]); // Logs 40

If you completely forgot what arrays are and how they work, refresh your memory with the “Arrays” chapter.

Let’s return to our task and enter an array with player objects. We will transfer it to the function. Then we can go through the array in the loop and do the same thing for each player: roll the dice, record the result and log it.