I’ll just leave this here. The ground work has now been laid for animated PCs, NPCs, and monsters. So far they don’t do anything but walk, but that’s enough to prove that the animated instancing system basically works. Exciting times ahead!
Yesterday I mentioned making NPCs into their own thing, instead of being very small buildings. Today, I added a few behaviours to them. They now wander around within a small area near where they’re placed, and they now look at PCs who come to take quests from them. In this screenshot, the PC in the…
A minor update which involved a lot of code: I’ve added a basic framework for NPCs to MMORPG Tycoon 2. Before now, NPCs such as quest-givers were implemented and treated as very small buildings (in MS5, if you select a quest-giver and open the Info Pane, it even describes him as a building). As of…
World of Warcraft, I believe, is slightly unique amongst MMORPGs in that its different classes not only have different abilities, but actually have different resources providing access to those abilities. Spellcasters have “mana”, fighters have “rage”, and rogues have “energy”. Each of these is a limited resource which is consumed by invoking particular abilities. In…
It’s very rare, when you’re programming video games, that writing code becomes mentally uncomfortable. Just now, I wrote this code: