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THE Captain's Log #22 - encyclopaedia & Diary

  • orochii
  • 01/25/2013 05:46 AM
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Hello mighty brothers! (?). And welcome to another one of these!

Well, today, since at last I did them, I wanted to explain what these are. The encyclopaedia and the diary.

Both are accessed from the "database", the alternate meny that you can access by pressing L or R (Q/W) at the menu.
At the Database, you can find four options. The first three are the encyclopaedia, and the last one the diary. The encyclopaedia can be used after getting it (as an item). The diary on the other hand can be accessed from start.

The encyclopaedia includes the enemy section (beastairy), character section (character bios, including PCs and important NPCs), and the topic section (information about relevant things). All of them gets an entry as you find them (or scan while in-battle, in case of it being an enemy).

The diary on the other hand is something similar to a quest log, but more inspired on something that I saw on Pokémon (one of them, I don't remember which one). Each time you do something meaningful, it gets a new entry. This way, by checking when the diary changes, you can either find what you were doing before, or even discover that you just made something that could derive on a "subquest". Any change to the diary will display and sound "at some way", so you don't need to be clairvoyant).

And that's all the news for now, I think, the other stuff is that I made stairs behaviour by using some terrain tags (I love to do things scripted instead of evented, sometimes it saves some resources). And also added a step sound... nothing special.

That's all I have for now, see you soon,
Orochii Zouveleki

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Pretty cool. I hate games that don't have a way to remind the player of quest objectives.
The idea for it is of reminding you of anything useful you have made in the game, from start to end. Either if you find a man that needs something, or if you gave the man that something. Or can even be if you saw something. The diary will respond to all these, or even more (of course, if they're helpful in any way, it is there to help the player after all).
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