Jatopian
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Play this, if you would, and tell me what you think of my ideas. If they receive favorable reaction, I shall expand on them (including as specified in the intro). I believe this is somewhat original, and if I accidentally stole something or messed up canon or whatever, just tell me and I shall cease and desist.

This is also my first attempt at architecture, so let me know if I have made a newbie mistake (besides letting players just run up the stairs; I know about that). I think the checkpoint placement might be a bit awkward.

Note: This thread was deleted then reposted due to delay in hold upload.

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Tahnan
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Hmmmm.

The Master Eye certainly works, though it's a little unnerving to have a bunch of eyes suddenly coming after you without hearing the "hmmm!" noise.

I'm not sure how to "sisarm" the traps--the bombs at the bottom I can set off, but how does one disarm the booby-trapped squares?

(And I'm not sure what's up with the rock golems--are they part of a trap?)

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Lots of bugs in this room... You have to be extra careful when scripting something like a master eye.

- The eyes in the room don't count as monsters.
- If you kill the eye in the top by stepping NE or NW, it shouldn't technically wake up. And after you step off, the eye will reappear in the top.
- If you block the tile where the top eye should move with your or the decoy's sword, the eye will appear in the same tile with it.
- If you kill the eye in the top with a decoy or after opening the green door, the eye in the bottom will wake up when you walk over the line of sight of the dead eye.
- If you kill the eye in the bottom and wake up the first eye, a new eye will appear in the bottom.
- You can't wake the master eye by placing a decoy in front of it.

It will be very tricky to make a fully functional master eye, if even possible at the moment. You've got the general idea, but it needs a lot more. And you can't do much about the green door thing...

By the way, I stepped on all of the ground tiles and lived to tell about it The bottom one was the most interesting to do.

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Jatopian
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Tahnan wrote:
Hmmmm.

The Master Eye certainly works, though it's a little unnerving to have a bunch of eyes suddenly coming after you without hearing the "hmmm!" noise.

I'm not sure how to "disarm" the traps--the bombs at the bottom I can set off, but how does one disarm the booby-trapped squares?

(And I'm not sure what's up with the rock golems--are they part of a trap?)

You have a good point about the Eye. I might try a wordless speech command with that sound effect attached.
The traps are meant to be disarmed by

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Interesting hold. The death-trap squares are interesting. One tip:
Place a green door against the stairs. The one thing I did not like was that one could easily accidentally beat the hold. Other than that, an interesting concept. I can't wait for more.

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I actually made a hold with a room with both normal eyes and master eyes, where master eyes are marked by a different floor. I could pull it up soon, but I need my upstairs computer to be fixed first. Anyway, the eyes in Jatopian's hold seem to be fully functional.

If you're worried about green doors and scripting, simply have another eye in the path of a master eye, facing the opposite direction, so that you can't stab the master eye without awakening it. So if you awaken the master eye, then the non-scripted eye with also awaken. The other eyes in the room will also awaken and turn into monsters, so that's taken care of. You just need to place the master eye in a place where you can't just stab it. Stabbing a master eye is also tricky, because you don't want monsters to awaken when the NPC is not at its spot. Coding diagonal eyes are particularly tricky.

Quiz on this tommorow.

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Tahnan
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Jatopian wrote:
The traps are meant to be disarmed by...

Yeah, just got that. That certainly explains why you bothered to put in a "turn into monsters" command. Fascinating idea.

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Doom wrote:
- If you kill the eye in the top by stepping NE or NW, it shouldn't technically wake up. And after you step off, the eye will reappear in the top.
- If you block the tile where the top eye should move with your or the decoy's sword, the eye will appear in the same tile with it.
- If you kill the eye in the top with a decoy or after opening the green door, the eye in the bottom will wake up when you walk over the line of sight of the dead eye.
- If you kill the eye in the bottom and wake up the first eye, a new eye will appear in the bottom.
- You can't wake the master eye by placing a decoy in front of it.

Er... yeah. I shall add some 'if monster present' and 'when monster stabbed' (does that work for NPCs? 'player location and direction' might substitute some) conditionals when I get back to DROD.
I did not know decoys would wake eyes...

Hopefully TCB will let NPCs count as monsters while still scripted... until then, some complex scripting with conditional orb striking might substitute.


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The only problem I see is the blatant spoiler in the note. I mean I suspected from other threads, but that was mean.

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coppro
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Interesting hold. The eyes must have taken for ever to script. Could be broken, but *gets an idea* Inter-character scripting! Characters send messages! Brilliant!

Also, Ezlo, you are known as Squee? Anyone known as Squee is a good goblin! Let's do that again!

EDIT: Apparently you aren't a goblin anymore. Anyway, it still applies.

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Jatopian
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coppro wrote:
Interesting hold. The eyes must have taken for ever to script. Could be broken, but *gets an idea* Inter-character scripting! Characters send messages! Brilliant!

Is that something we could implement with present scripting, or a feature request?
And yeah, and the eyes still don't quite work properly...

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