[Eventing] How to Implement Karma / Alignment, People react differently to you depending on your Karma Options

[diamondandplatin...]

This is a tutorial on how to implement Karma into your game.

Karma is similar to alignment in Fable, in that people will react differently to you depending on how your Karma is.

You may also see the attached project for the finished set-up of this system (including comments).




Full Screen Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui30cK2yxow


Full Screen Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNBnzY3jGlk



Good Luck to you.


Attachment ~ Karma Eventing.exe

This post has been edited by diamondandplatinum3: Jun 6 2012, 05:55 AM

[zacheatscrackers]

Wowie, I can mostly definitely have a few uses for this. I've been thinking about implementing some type of reception/reputation/karma system for a while now into my game, and this will certainly do quite nicely since I'm not looking for some overly complex.

Great job, diamond!

This post has been edited by zacheatscrackers: Jun 3 2012, 08:50 AM

[diamondandplatin...]

Thank you for your words

If you run into any problems, you know where to find me

[Night_Runner]

Nice tutorial, I just had a suggestion about your method though.

You've used

CODE

Conditional Branch: Variable [Karma] >= 200
  Control Variables [Karma] = 200
Branch End
Conditional Branch: Variable [Karma] <= 0
  Control Variables [Karma] = 0
Branch End

I would recommend changing 'greater than or equal to' to 'greater than' and 'less than or equal to' to 'less than'.
Whenever you set a variable, every single event on the map refreshes, (they load through every page, checking if the page is valid and should be shown, and then all the event sprites get regenerated, and all their commands get reset, ect), which is effectively trashing the entire map and reload everything, which can obviously lead to a lot of lag. Especially if it's done 60 times per second.

Otherwise, thanks for the tutorial I watched both, you're really good at teaching.

[diamondandplatin...]

You are correct 'Night Runner'

It was one of those things that I noticed after I ended the initial video, so that little error was panicking on my part ;_;
I'll edit the video on youtube to show an annotation correcting this.

Thank you