Castle Paradox

[Welsh]

Hello,

I'm considering this engine for a fairly ambitious port. I have two questions.

1) Is it currently possible to have a character join the party and select an option to leave him/her at various points on the map? For example, PLAYER 2 joins. Then select an option from the menu - PLAYER 2 leaves. Sort of like a vehicle script, but with players or NPCs.

2) Is it possible to substitute items you find on a map? For example, if you're limited to a certain number of items, can you exchange those items with other items and return to that area to collect them later? I guess it would be a item drop/pickup option.

Thanks.

[Nepenthe]

Both of those are possible with plotscripting. Should be pretty straightforward too. We can help you out if you run into any specific problems.

[Ronin Catholic]

I'm afraid not on both counts. Someone might have a workaround, but basically you'd have to know that you want to do this from the start and go through a lot of work scripting it to do what you want. Personally, I'm still hoping we eventually get the ability to choose an item to discard when the player has a full inventory and picks up a new item.
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[Nepenthe]

I missed that "and return to that area to collect them later" bit before. Still possible, just trickier. I'm pretty sure I saw an item bank script floating around that could be adapted though.

[mswguest]

If items are only ever found (and thus swapped) in specific places, this is not too hard. If there is the chance that items can be found in random places (like after a battle) and thus could need swapping ANYWHERE, I'd say this is much more difficult and you're best off having some kind of clear limit as to how many items can be left lying around.

[ShakeyAir]

both of those are extremely possible, but that second one would be a pretty advanced script. though that is an interesting idea. if i get a scripting itch sometime i might try and figure it out.

(my implementation would use slices to store information, and therefor would not continue to work when loading a save file, but otherwise would be limitless unless you had soooooo many items the engine crapped out, which i don't see happening without a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE amount of items in it)

is there a maximum length for strings? are the contents of strings saved?

[Welsh]

Thanks guys. Is anyone interested in helping out with such scripts for a horror adventure game? There's an obscure Famicom title I want to update. I've been collecting artwork and finally obtained a sample rom with significant differences. Also, a few hackers have been able to piece together a lot of unused graphics and I have a translator working on the project. You could say it's a complete version since unlike most Famicom titles, bits seem to have been removed due to ROM size and the scenario is extremely detailed. Please let me know. I'm assembling a team.

[TMC]

Did you say port?