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Lascerus

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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 17:52

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Can anyone help me with the code design of my game. I dont really want code just help with the layout for the code.Umm how do i put this...how do you advance the story of your game without causing it to loop back to where you started...and thus advancing your story. I was thinking of using a variable that starts at 0 and increments everytime the story advances...any ideas.

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i'm learning dbpro, delphi,

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OldTifu

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Posted: 18th Sep 2004 19:12

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I use an idea I got from a shareware RPG maker that I played a demo of (Blades of Exile?) in that, there were variables called 'stuff done flags'. And they would be at 0 if nothings happened, but when you defeat the boss, or save the princess, or open treasure chestA a different 'stuff done flag' (or sdf as I dub em for short) would be set to 1. Then you can have a lot of variables... better than having just one variable to define all of your story.

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if sdf(0)=0 then text 0,0,"You must kill Trogdor!"
if sdf(0)=1 then text 0,0,"You have already killed Trogdor!"
if sdf(1)=0 then text 0,10,"The princess is held captive in the castle!"
if sdf(1)=1 then text 0,10,"The princess was in another castle >=("

Of course, that's stupid cos Trogdor cannot be killed

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Lascerus

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Posted: 19th Sep 2004 03:30

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i see you use if statements what about case statements would'nt they be better? thanks for the input...i've been playing around with those types of variables just checking to see if case statements are better than iof statements...thanks....

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