Castle Paradox

[brotoad]

I'm making an RPG game, but I want to add a SHMUP section before the final dungeon to add some variety. I'm not an advanced plotscripter, and I don't need anything like a score (or even health given it's essentially a joke game, though a hit animation would be good)

How would be the best way to go about this?
I'm using the zenzizenizac version.

[Bob the Hamster]

I think a good first step in making a minigame is to describe how you would like for it to play.

If you are not sure how to describe it, maybe there is some other SHMUP game you can give as an example for comparison.

Then when you have a concrete idea, we can talk about ideas for how to make it happen with plotscripting.

EDIT: by the way! Please download the new alectormancy release! it has lots of bugfixes that were not in zenzizenzic

[Rya.Reisender]

Someone once made a shoot 'em up with OHRRPGCE, maybe you could get in contact with him? Don't really remember who did, though...
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[brotoad]

I didn't stay with alectormancy, as for some reason, NPCs with the "usable only once" option would dissapeer before they finished what they were doing, such as text boxes. It would take a lot of time to replace all of it with tags, so I stuck with zenzizezizznzznenzizc.

As for the Minigame, all I'm looking to make is a sidescrolling area, where you can only move up and down, and shoot. The enemies wouldn't really need to move much, just so long as they can be destroyed via being shot.

If one touches you, it should make the character explode, then gameover.

Like I said, this is basically a joke game, so it doesn't need to be difficult or have anything too complex. I just wanted to add some variety to it given it runs over 30 minutes.

[Bob the Hamster]

[brotoad]

I'm relatively new to plotscripting, so I still have a whole bunch of questions.

Mainly in that I have no idea how to make a timer or how to make it check for these things, or how to make the bullet appear from the player. Maybe this is too advanced for me right now?

I can always just have it be a cutscene if it's too much of a problem.

Another thing, I don't know if this is a bug, but in my game, after some random point, the experience points start getting divided between heroes rather than all heroes getting the full amount. It's not a big problem as I've managed to work around it, but I am still curious.

[TMC]

This is pretty straight forward, so I hope you fill in the gaps of the following. I wish someone else would step up for once to provide a script!

You don't actually need a timer, just a while loop. For example to move every copy of NPC 3 to the right 5 pixels every tick:

[Brotoad]

Thanks for the help, it didn't work out too well though so I skipped the shmup in favour of a cutscene and it works with the story perfectly fine

The game is nearing completion (about to start work on the final dungeon), and in the end screen, I want to show the play time. How would I go about that?

It would show a backdrop, and at the bottom, a text box with something along the lines of
"Completion Time: XX minutes" as well as showing hours if applicable.

[Bob the Hamster]

Here is a script that stores the play-time in string number 0

[Brotoad]

Final question (I hope!)

How can I use the on keypress script to play a footstep sound while walking?

Thank you all very much for the help by the way!

[Bob the Hamster]

I think a footstep sound script would be much easier if you use the "each step" script instead of the "on keypress" script.

Then the script can be as simple as:

[TMC]

You might want to try "playsound(ID, false, true)" instead if your sound effect is too long.. By default playsound doesn't restart the sound effect if it's already playing.
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