iPhone Project: The In-Game Plan

[Gan]

Yeah, that's one of the things I need to program in this system. Use your right thumb to move(pick spells if sorcerer) and your left thumb to target and attack enemies.


-Gandolf

[Silverwind]

That sounds pretty good, though when the player learns sorcery, he/she turns his/her back on plain sword fighting and the chance to become a marksman?


-Gandolf

That's certainly a sound idea.

Alternatively each class could boast an ability instead of higher stats. For example, the knight deals a powerful melee attack, the marksman has a ranged attack and the mage can heal himself. Those are fairly distinct traits, and we could simply implement an "Ability" button to initiate them.

[Gan]

Yeah, I've been thinking on that. I'm thinking that abilities could be kept in the 3rd toggle of the toggle button.
Adventurer-Beginning class, no special attributes but handles plain weaponry such as what a Knight uses.
Sorcerer-Allows the player to cast spells which are held in the 3rd toggle of the toggle button. Can only use hand or staff as hand to hand combat. Only wears robe.
Marksman- Wears armor of a Knight but shoots long range with a bow and  also hits close combat with the bow. Takes no mp for bow but can miss.
Knight-Strong armor and weapon but... This is where I get stuck. The Knight needs some abilities or it'd just be as bad as the beginning adventurer class. Stealth, strength, or anything that can be called by a 3rd toggle?


-Gandolf  

[Swamp7hing]

Knight can have a higher defense by default, got a shield, right?

[Gan]

Forgot about a shield but usually a sword would be two handed, especially for a knight. Besides stats, it'd be nice if the knight could have a special ability like a marksman or sorcerer. Though can't quite think of it...


-Gandolf

[Tireas Dragon]

How about being able to attack everybody next to him?

[Gan]

Whoa, now that'd be a twist. Collide with one enemy and instead of attacking one, all around feel the slice of your sword. What do the rest of you guys think? Should that be all for the Knight?


-Gandolf

[Silverwind]

Hey, I'm liking that idea. Sorta like a swing attack?

[Gan]

Yeah. So should that special ability trigger automatically or would it be some sort of button pressed to activate in whch it'd need to take mana points?


-Gandolf

[Silverwind]

Whichever is more practical. Button press I'd reckon.

[Gan]

Alright, I think I know how I should set this up. Currently I'm doing a major re-haul of the drawing and touch input system. Because we decided to make the game fully oriented in landscape mode I need to rotate the grid of both drawing and touch input to allow automatic landscape instead of the generic set up at the moment. So this is going to take a bit of work but overall it'll make my life easier and get rid of future troubles.


-Gandolf

[Gnome]

Just a quick concern. How would a Bow or a spell work in an engine of bumping into stuff?

[Gan]

It wouldn't. That's why I need to make a 2nd battle system just for those two classes. It's going to be a bit of a challenge. A lot of modifications and work ahead, I hope it'll be worth it.
EDIT: I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. I should focus on what I'm doing now instead of trailing so far off on what I need to do.


-Gandolf

[Silverwind]

Can't you simply invoke the playerHit routine when an arrow sprite collides with an enemy?

[Gan]

You know, I don't have any sort of sprite collision detection made... I think I have a vague idea of how I will program it but I won't truly know until I do.


-Gandolf