Castle Paradox

[captain whatthehell]

I need a script that has a variable (like 100 or 1000) and can be decremented whenever an "enemy NPC" touches you. When the varaible hits zero the game runs a gameover script... How whould that be set up???

[Guest]

kind of like what was on smokey magoo???

[RPGCreations]

on mapload, define a global variable.

Now, have the NPC activated to touch, and have it run a script that does

set global variable ( globvar , globvar -- 1 )

you can also do the check for the gameover in that too, if you want.
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[msw188]

I don't think that you can define global variables within a script. You define them in the master script text file (otherwise you would be trying to redefine the global variable everytime the script is called - not good). The rest of RPGCreation's looks good. I'd also like to point out that an NPC calling a script sends it two arguments, which you might be able to use. The first is defined by you in Custom in the 'Edit NPC' menu in the Map Editor. This might allow you to make certain NPCs decrease the global variable more than others. The second is an automatic argument that is a reference to the NPC that called the script. Very useful if you want something to happen to the NPC when it touches you.