Offering the red pill...

So this week is about choices. 

The player was given the ability to make a choice during the demo/training scenes - but we weren't doing anything game wise with the players pick, at least up until now.

I've got a version in my SVN repo for the team to demo - now if the player decides to assist the Axis powers he/she gets to shoot down what would usually be the good guys airplanes.

Let's start with Snoopy's favorite ride - a Sopwith Camel.  This is currently the default Allied ship the player is going against.

Keeping with the RAF motif - the second enemy fighter the player goes against is a S.E.5a.

And the boss is a RAF RE.7 two seat light bomber/recon/fighter.

So, how does this work.  We  have two modules - a background and a ship module.  Using the JSON file created when a player makes a choice in level 0 -

local playerScore = require "playerScore"

local mySide = playerScore.whichSide() --pulls the value from the mycurrentstate.json file

some function()

     if (mySide == "A") then

         --do some Allied stuff --I love warm beer and haggis

     or

         --do some Axis stuff --I love bratwurst und sauerkraut!!

     end

end

 

This way the 'knowledge' of what choice the player makes is only available to those modules that need it. 

 

However this isn't going to be as pure as an OO narzi would like it to be.  I'm thinking to keep things compact and easy we may well have to have various scenes in on the players choice - some things may happen different depending the story line specific to the side the player chose. 

 

And I added a new background to our game:

I found this site:  http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/packs/terrain_civilization/index.htm

If you download and install their Genetica viewer you  get access to a lot of images, then can change the image size, then save it as a jpeg or png file type.

Once I saved an image I used Paint.NET to carve out the final image and size it to fit our game.

 

The red pill reference - that's a rabbit hole for another time...