Castle Paradox

Fortis · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: Preventing Quit

Hello, OHR plotscripting peoples in the place to be.

The last time I sat down and really did any hamsterspeak (until yesterday) was around 2000 or so and then once in 2005, so I'm a little behind.

I'm putting together a quick and dirty demo of the game I'm working on for my senior exhibition at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (I'm a Comic Art major and the game is a followup to the comic project). It's going to be out on display for all to see and play, and I realize that there will be one major problem with this; if people can quit game.exe, then I'm hosed, because I won't be including a keyboard or mouse with the public setup. I'd have to come back with my mouse and restart game.

I was planning on having a looping demo reel in place of a title screen, so I was wondering if there was some way, through plotscripting, to prevent the 'quit' command from actually leaving the rpg file, and instead effectively reset the game without quitting? I'd like to do this without coding my own menu system.
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djfenix · Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 359

You can actually turn off the title and load menu in the preference bitset in General Game Data. So i think when you quit, it'll probably go right back to the beginning

TMC · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:23 am Post subject:

No keyboard or mouse? Well, I assume you'll be supplying a joystick or controller then.

If you set both the skip titlescreen and skip loadmenu bitsets, the game will quit when the player exits from the menu or with gameover. So set just the skip titlescreen bitset, and when the player attempts to quit, the loadmenu is shown, or skipped if there are no saved games, and a new game starts.
So you'll have to do without usual saved games (and you can quit from the load menu anyway) but that doesn't sound like a problem.

Strangely, gameover doesn't quit the program either. I don't remember it being that way, it's probably the wrong thing to do.
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Mr B · Joined: 20 Mar 2003 Posts: 382

I'll have to look over my own scripting, but I believe that if you have a continuously-running script that watches for the ESC key to be pressed, then does something about it, the in-game menu does not come up. You'll have to intercept the ALT key as well.

That sounds too simple. I need to look at my scripting.

Moogle1 · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

Yeah, I'm not sure I understand. It's going to be an automated demo? No keyboard, no mouse, no interaction period?
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Fortis · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:37 am Post subject:

Sorry, I should have mentioned that there will be a gamepad for control.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject:

Fortis · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:58 am Post subject:

Ah! Of course. I always forget about batch files. Thanks!
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