HowToWriteAdventureGamesUsingArianne: Difference between revisions

The key on making Stendhal moving is to add actions.

As we have seen each entity has a list of actions that can do. Let's see them and study they interact.

 

Move action can be understand as two actions:

 

This action should have the next set of attributes:

 

 

This action allows controlling game's avatar using a mouse, so we can click ( or double click ) to move to the position where the mouse clicked. This mode is great for a more relaxed adventure game style like Bioware Baldur's Gate.

 

If avatar collides with something while moving, dx and dy will become 0.

 

This action is useful as a extra for the social side of the game; when you are talking it is often good to ''face'' the person you are talking too. So face action allows our character to look at the direction we tell it: left, right, up or down.

 

This action is the base of any social game like a MORPG.

 

Due to Arianne framework it is not possible to create a yell or whisper action, when you talk, you talk for everybody in the area, that is why area design is *VERY* important to achieve a good gameplay.

 

This action is the core of the gameplay for lots of gamers to consider the game fun. All the combat is ruled by the RP game system explained in the RP section of this page.