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  1. Posted

    The addition of a database logic is a big deal.  More impressive to me than the others here, to be honest.  The ability to manage metadata for a level, such as elaborate dialog trees for NPCs, is a very big deal.  I've been away for a while, but I'll be really interested to see what kinds of capabilities are built into that logic.

    Is it purely static, or will there be ways to edit or manipulate when the game is running?  Is it only "import from spreadsheet" or can it be constructed directly in the editor?  If it's able to edit during gameplay, can it export during gameplay?  Can it export at all?

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    A possible alternative to the auto-pick, could be something similar to a feature in a certain other popular survival game:  Holding down a key (shift or ctrl, something like that) and double-clicking an item attempts to auto-pick any of that item type within range.  It wouldn't just scoop up everything around the player, but could be used to pick up a single thing in bulk, saving clicks.  And I expect it is something that could be implemented in picking from the environment, or using the inventory screen.  Just a thought.

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    I agree on the ships.  The last few maps I played, I stayed mostly with the Upper Deck boat.  You can place several containers on the nose of the boat, and it's fast enough to get to the nearby islands with ease.  It might be an issue, not having an anchor if we decide to dive to a RE, but I can't think of many other benefits to spending resources on a full ship.  Maybe to have a few mobile workstations, I guess, or to sail with friends.  My last few maps, the larger ships have been very late-game.

  6. Posted · Edited by Indomitus

    How about a slingshot?  1 stick and 1 string to craft, and add pebbles to be the ammunition (break small rocks to get them).  It would automatically match with its ammunition, like the bow and arrow.  It would do very little damage, but it would be very easy to craft, fire quickly, and very easy to get more ammunition for it, making it useful for early game.

    Edit:  I know that's not the direction the OP wanted to go, but the idea just popped into my head while reading it.

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    Okay, time to be honest: I'm drifting away from Ylands.  No doubt I'll stop back in from time to time for major updates, but as of right now I haven't played it in about a week and a half.  (Explore is my main thing, and it's honestly gotten kind of stale lately.)

    It wasn't Dreams that's doing it, though.  My PSN account is screwed up and I can't even play that game.  Instead, it's a combination between Minecraft and an urge to get back to learning 3D modelling and animation with Blender and Daz.  Those two are taking up all my gaming time, and there's nothing left for Ylands.

    SO...

    I have several games and game ideas that I need to test, release, or hand off to someone else if they want it.  If I don't, they'll just fade away in my Editor folder.

    1.  Wacky Painters.  It just needs one last quick test, and it's ready to release.

    2.  A boat battle game heavily inspired by RedEagle's "Red Cliffs" idea.  Upper deck boats, cannons you can deploy, blocks you can build, swords, infirmaries, jails, and 3 different ways a team can win...  The script should be completely intact, but it hasn't been tested in multiplayer yet.  The play area design is fairly basic, but should be fine as long as the scripts work.

    4.  Scavenger Yland.  You're given a short list of items to find, spawned randomly in containers around the play area.  Each player gets a different list.  Find them and return to a "portal" collection point, and you'll get points and a new list.  The more you find, the more points you get.  It's a very simple concept.  The scripts should be intact, but I've done literally no design work on it.  It's just a flat field with containers all over the place, just for testing.  It needs to be play tested to see if the idea is fun.  If it is fun, then it could be applied to a variety of different map designs.

    3.  Mutiny.  Two teams fight for control of a ship, but how can you tell who is on which team?  And will they stay on that team?  (You can switch sides under certain conditions.)  The scripts should be solid enough, but it hasn't been play tested at all, so I'm not even sure if it's a fun game the way it's designed.  It's thrown together in a very rudimentary form specifically for play testing.  Personally, I think this one is the weakest of the four games, but somebody might be able to do something awesome with it.

    I have other game ideas in my Editor, but these are the ones I don't want to just abandon.  I don't want to monopolize an entire P1 play party for these, so maybe some time outside of that.  Or one per week, or something like that.

  10. Posted · Edited by Indomitus

    Look into Event Listeners.

    To detect PvP damage, use interaction of 2 entities, and set both objects to player.  There's an On Damage, On Kill, and a few other choices, I think.  Those events will give you both entities involved, plus I think the amount of damage, and type of damage (crushing, piercing, fire, etc).  Play with it, and see what information it gives you.  Try different things in different combinations, and so on.  To negate damage if it's a type they're immune to for example (if it's not one-shot fatal) just add the amount back to the player's HP.  (You can also just set immunity directly, but sometimes there are other things to calculate in.)

    My basic advice to anyone using the Editor is this:  Just like with the regular game mode, it pays to EXPLORE.  Try weird things and weird combinations, sit back and watch the magic.

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  12. Posted · Edited by Indomitus

    They don't really need to be that high-tech.  I would think a trowel would be enough to smooth most kinds of terrain walls.  Not stone, but maybe that could be an extended use for the chisel.

    Improved accuracy for filling in spaces with dirt or sand would help as well, making the terrain's geometry more workable for whatever tool we're using.  (Right now building a garden can be kind of a pain, if there are voids left under the surface when placing the dirt.)

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    I wonder...  Could something be rigged by resetting the player's controls?  Maybe with one of the particle effects as a visual indicator?  I'm only guessing, since I've never tried anything with the reset tile.

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  15. Posted · Edited by Indomitus

    Great suggestion.  If we could make it a specific entity for them to aggro, or a specific entity for them to ignore and aggro all others, that would be great.  And please include the possibility of that entity being any entity, not just players.  Players, NPC, other creatures, or even static entities (for example, if we want them to attack a door, or some item the player needs to protect).  Set it as a specific entity, labeled entities, player roles, etc.

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  16. Posted · Edited by Indomitus

    This is something that players have complained about recently.  From what I've seen, in the current version, copper ore can only be found deep in the caves on the level 3 (hardest) islands.  It might actually be easier for you to find gold or lots of iron, then find an NPC to trade for copper.

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    1.  This kind of checking is what IS ENTITY exists for.  Error handling is a common concern across all programming languages.  In Ylands, that means checking your data types and values up front.

    2.  Of course a player is an entity.  If they weren't then tiles like GET NAME, GET POSITION, or GET ROTATION wouldn't work, and Entity Labels or Entity Storage wouldn't work on them.

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    When playing in Playlands, sometimes there can be a long wait for the game queue to activate a game.  I know I'm not the only one who would pass the time climbing trees, or seeing what other places we could get to with parkour across the trees.  The Easter changes removed a few trees I frequently used to get onto the castle's balcony, but thankfully we can still get up the tall conifers on the hill behind it.

    The sudden absence of that and the addition of the egg hunt really underscored to me that the Playlands hub could use a couple of basic activities or challenges inside that map.  It could be a simple parkour around the castle, or something like that.  I don't think it would need to be for points at all.  Just one or two things to challenge us and keep us occupied while we wait for the game queue.

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  22. Posted

    Tie the default to the type of map selected, and make it an obvious choice in the wizard.  It makes sense to keep some kind of control over it so that we don't end up with a bunch of small game modes saving when they don't need to.  BUT this should not be buried in menus or somewhere obscure.  This should be a top-level option, and worded as plainly as possible.

    Personally, I would put it as a yes/no question directly under the map type selection in the wizard.

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    Yes, and there are a few ways to do this.  One way is to put it in a Global Storage, and give it the name you want and define the parameters it needs.  Then, if you go to the Instructions section from inside any entity or logic, and click the name of that Global Storage, it will show that function as a tile you can drag out into your script.

    Remember to use the right type, whether it needs to return information or not.  There's one that will return a single value, one that will return an array, and one that doesn't return any value.

     

    You can also do this with instructions inside Entity Storage or Logic Storage.  Those can be assigned to specific objects, and it basically makes a dedicated copy of it for that object.  When you call a function that's in one of those, you have to specify which object it's attached to.

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