I've implemented a plugin that will allow you to manage multiple parties.
Functionality includes
- creating parties
- switching between parties
- merging parties
All parties are separate individual entities. Each party has their own set of members, inventory, and any other party-related information.
This allows you to create games where multiple different characters are required on the screen to work together in order to solve puzzles and such.
It is possible to event the system with clever use of event, location switching, and variables, but I find that it is much better to have a plugin handle all the details so you don't need to worry about it.
Here's a video that I will be using for explaining how the plugin works.
There are a number of additional features that I will be adding to it, including
1. Setting up "party events" so that you can interact with other parties on the map (that you don't currently control)
2. Creating a trading screen so that you can trade items between different parties.
3. Providing functions that allow you to check whether a certain party is at a certain position. This can be useful for puzzle games where you need different parties to be at specific positions.
4. Required party members, and required party leaders. Perhaps you can choose the members in your party, but certain members are locked in for story purposes.
Eventually, the party manager will be extended to support multiple players. For example, two players each control one party to try to solve a puzzle together, rather than just having one player control two parties one at a time.
If you have any other ideas feel free to suggest them.
Functionality includes
- creating parties
- switching between parties
- merging parties
All parties are separate individual entities. Each party has their own set of members, inventory, and any other party-related information.
This allows you to create games where multiple different characters are required on the screen to work together in order to solve puzzles and such.
It is possible to event the system with clever use of event, location switching, and variables, but I find that it is much better to have a plugin handle all the details so you don't need to worry about it.
Here's a video that I will be using for explaining how the plugin works.
There are a number of additional features that I will be adding to it, including
1. Setting up "party events" so that you can interact with other parties on the map (that you don't currently control)
2. Creating a trading screen so that you can trade items between different parties.
3. Providing functions that allow you to check whether a certain party is at a certain position. This can be useful for puzzle games where you need different parties to be at specific positions.
4. Required party members, and required party leaders. Perhaps you can choose the members in your party, but certain members are locked in for story purposes.
Eventually, the party manager will be extended to support multiple players. For example, two players each control one party to try to solve a puzzle together, rather than just having one player control two parties one at a time.
If you have any other ideas feel free to suggest them.
