Digital Workshop

I have just played around with a tool called "Stagecast Creator". It's a very limited development tool to create tile based games.

In this tool you have a grid and you can create rules for all objects in a very simple way. E.g. if you have a character that should walk to the right you create a rule that says "If the field right of the character is empty, then goto this field".

If you want a character to fall in a pit you simply say "If the field beneath is empty, goto this field" and so on.

I wonder if something like that can be done with Opus too? I am sure that it can be done in some way but don't know how to start.

Has someone of you an idea how such a grid with fields to which an object can go etc. can be build with Opus? Checking the x and y coordinates for every single movement seems to be too intricate(?) for my understanding.

Thanks in advance for you suggests.


T.

T,

Depends how simple or how intriguing you want to make it. I'm not much into games, but thinking out-loud you could make your grid out of dropzones. Whether vector objects or rollovers or text or frames... depends on your creativity.

You could set up one or more variables to reflect rules for navigation (up, down, left, right are valid). Other variables or arrays to hold state, possible moves (adjacent grid blocked or occupied for example). Could accelerate the experience for users with keyboard moves (arrow keys?) or joystick.

Hey, have you thought about Layers and 3D ?

Lar_123,

thanks for your suggestions. Since I currently work on another project I will try this later.

T.