Best practice to signal to a different scene/checking for objects based on position

Lactuas

Hey there, I'm very new to Godot trying to get a little more familiar with things by working on my own puzzle game right now. I'm at a point where I have a board filled with blocks that I can shuffle around, and every time my "player" shuffles blocks around I want to check if three colored blocks end up matching in a row or column. For that, I want to handle the checking for blocks of the same color in my block script for the blocks that got shuffled instead of it happening all inside my player class. Now I'm not exactly sure how to signal that to my block scene without telling every single block to check for matches, only those who got actually moved.

Another thing I'm wondering about is, since the game is grid-based, if I can check for the adjacent blocks through coordinates rather than having to set up detectionboxes and use get_overlapping_areas(). Is there a clean way to do this?

cybereality

For most puzzle games, you would use a grid to store the positions and colors of each block, typically in a multi-dimensional array. Then you can use a simple search through the array and see if neighboring blocks are the same color. Though doing it via collisions or other logic on the blocks themselves is possible, I've found this to be slower and less reliable than the array approach.