Castle Paradox

[newbob]

Greetings, I'm new here but not so new to the ohrpgce, i've coming and going reading the forum along the years, still I'd say i'm a pretty bad plotscripter, so could anybody give a hand on this?
I'm trying to make a game like the one where you control a snake-worm thing that eats something and it starts growing a tail, if you keep eating your tail keeps on growing and if you happen to bump into her you die, my idea so far goes like this: first when you eat the item it creates a npc where the hero is located this npc is set to follow you and is activades by touch, this new npc when touched run another script that sets his speed to zero, then there is another script specifically a on key press script that make that when you push any direction it sets the npc speed up again so it follows you, it might work but I haven't tried this yet because I believe that your tail is long enough and there is shorter way to get to you the last npc on line (the line your tail) will break out and screw everything up, so any ideas to acomplish this?
thanks is sort of exciting to post here for the first time yay !

[newbob]

btw I've already tried the idea above and it didn't work.

[Bagne]

Hi bub,

Post your source code, so that others don't have to guess what you did :-)
Then hopefully you can get the help that you need.
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[newbob]

well I'll post this but I don't think this sould have been they way to do this in the first place, well, as I already stated I'm a lame plotscripter
3 scripts working here: come, stop, cola

define script(1, come, none)
define script(2, stop, none)
define script(3, cola, none)

This one runs when you step on on the item that you supossedly eat:
script, come, begin
(create npc(0, herox(me), heroy(me))
end
end

This one when the just created npc touches you:
script, stop, begin
set npc speed (0,0)
end

This to make the just created npc follow you
plotscript, cola, begin
if(hero is walking(me) == true) then(
set npc speed (0, 20)
if(hero is walking(me) == false) then(
set npc speed (0, 0)
)
)
end

I think there might be a better way to achieve what I'm trying to do.

[Rimudora]

You probably shouldn't rely on "NPC chases hero" to make the pieces of the snake's tail follow its head. If you've played games like Purgatory, you know that there's some randomness involved and the NPCs won't follow the hero perfectly.

[Bagne]

I think this kind of game would work better using slices.

This kind of script would be a lot more complicated, of course.
Each slice comes with three "extra data" slots. Each slice uses one of the slots to store the ID# of the one it's supposed to follow.
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[Rimudora]

I think slices would make it even more complicated than it needs to be.

Anyways, here. I tried writing a script for a snake game that uses only maptiles. I included the source code so you can get some idea how things work.

http://www.castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=1002

[Guest]

I've downloaded the file and it's great just like I wanted thank you for going for all that trouble, I really don't understand the source code but will study it a lot cause there are a few things I'd like to change, anyway if I got any doubt you'll be hearing from me again thanks!

[Guest]

well, I posted before checking it out completely, my idea was to have a more elaborated snake game something with diferent maps and some puzzle action, but this code messes with maptiles so it's not quite what I'd need. Thanks anyway