Castle Paradox

Delfino · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 5

I really love the OHR, but there are so many things that I am interested in but am not sure if they can actually be done.

* How do you add a time limit to a part of your game? I know this can be done, as I saw it in The Wizard's Bomb, but how could it be added to a specific dungeon? For example, at a certain part of the game you may be traveling to a new area on a ferry when pirates attack, and the ship begins to sink. How do you add a time limit at the beginning of the area, send the player to the Game Over screen if they fail, and get rid of the timer after a certain event (boarding a lifeboat).

* How do you add timed events to battles? For example, if the players stay in battle with a given boss long enough, he will call for more allies to aid him. I don't want to do this with one of the monster's attacks; that would leave a risk that he could use it twice in a row at the beginning of the battle, making it all practically impossible.

* How can I change the rewards from a battle, based on what attacks were used? For example, there could be a powerful spell called 'Disintegrate' that also disintegrates whatever items and gold the target was carrying. Alternately, there could be an attack that seals a monster's soul into a bottle, so that when you win the battle you get a special item called [monster name]'s Soul. It could have a big sale price, or teach a spell.

Thanks for your help.

Moogle1 · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject: Re: can it be done?

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Another way to do the Soul idea:

1. Instead of using random battles, have an instead of battle script that calls from a random list of battles. Save the number that picked the battle out in a variable.
2. Go to 'Tags' in the attack's menu and have the soul-stealing attack set the Tag on when it kills an enemy (or however you like)
3. After the battle, if the tag is on, add the soul to the player's inventory and do whatever text box or script necessary (based on the variable in step 1)
4. Set the soul tag off after the battle takes place.

Advantage: This can be done with just one script per random battle set.

The disadvantage to this method is that only one enemy in each battle can be soul-stealable with the OHR's current options.

I'm just throwing the idea out there; I bet in the future there will be a way to do something like this easily. Why not bug one of the programmers to make enemies set tags on after being hit with certain attacks? (TheMadCacti is usually an easy mark)

TMC · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:06 am Post subject:

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject:

'Plan for more flexible elementals'

TMC · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:35 am Post subject:

Looking at that plan, it seems to be perfectly compatible with an unlimited number of elementals/user defined bits. It might just be weird to call them all elementals.
I'm sure people would want to attach arbitrary data to attacks/enemies/etc, not just bits, but making that data actually do anything seems pretty hard without battlescripting.
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