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| Oom Shnibble's Game Dev Diary V2.oh by Oom Shnibble 04/21/2012, 8:43am PDT | ||||
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| After getting a basic top down shooter done I find I have the momentum to make something a little more meaty.
The end goal is to make something akin to Apogee's old top down story based game called Solar Winds. To do this I'm creating the skeleton of the game. So far I have a dynamic menu structure in place. I'm also using binary serialization and reflection to create a base object that will allow me to persist objects. I can basically load and save the world. Probably the most intersting thing is the quest chain framework. Each quest has a list of prerequisites (Quests that either need to be completed or triggered to allow it to be triggered). There is also a trigger which is linked to a player interaction state (Landed, destroyed, communicated, etc.) on an object. What this means is that if a player interacts with an object the object notifies the questlist which then triggers the quest linked to that object if it meets the prerequisites. A similar action happens for success triggers. A quest also has a reward object and trigger and success text associated with it. Of course all objects, menus and quests are defined in XML which is embedded in the application so creating quests and objects is a really simple affair. I'm trying to think whether I want to keep it more of a story based game or incorporate elements of trading but the story I have in mind is kind of a Wall-E story of a lone droid exploring an almost empty area of the galaxy trying to figure out what has happened with only sporadic encounters with automated defences and non-advanced civilizations. |
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