DASHING THROUGH THE DUNGEON

Depends on your mechanics.

I plan to make random encounters appear if you move too long without stopping.
First you get an exclamiation mark above your head ("!") then 2, ("!!") then 3, "!!!" than, if you don't stop within a second or so, the battle will start.
So dashing around will decrease the time between "!", "!!!" and the start of the battle.

Now if you use encounters that appear on the map and you can avoid them all by daashing, it might be worth deactivating it in a dungeon.

Why are you giving the player multiple movement speeds if they don't affect gameplay? If they affect gameplay, then dungeons are where gameplay happens, so of course that's where the option should exist. If they don't affect gameplay, then fucking get rid of all the movement speeds except the fastest one, you donkey.

This idea is only half cooked! You're going to kill someone!

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I generally like the player to move at the dash speed at all times if they like (I like to use Yanfly's system options on VX Ace with Dashing as the default walk speed, but they can turn it off if they want).

I am so adverse to not locking out dashing that I am having a hard time choosing whether to do so on the world map, where it might actually be useful to create the feeling of slowly traversing the world. >.>;;;;

@Blackwolf> I think I have an idea how to do that, using just events. Though it is pretty clunky, but should be functional enough.

You'll need two common events, both on Parallel Process. Let's name them CC and VV. Both CC and VV should be active at all times. Or at least, while the player is on a map.

CC is your sprint detector. It's main function is to check (constantly) if the player is dashing or not. If they are, then a switch is flipped, which will then enable our second common event: VV.

VV is the stamina counter. While active, it continually decrements a variable (your stamina), disabling dashing if the stamina is at or below 0. While inactive, it should slowly increment a variable (your stamina) until the maximum value you set.

I could make screenshots, but I'm on my phone right now so it'll have to wait...

Edit: Come to think of it, you only need one common event for this. CC is more than enough, it seems.

Edit2: Here.



If $game_player.dash? does not work, try checking if button A (default for sprint) is pressed instead.

Don't use a stamina bar for running unless your game is filled with traps and short chases and other things that make it important for the player to pay attention to when they can run and save enough stamina for those parts.

Dark Souls uses its stamina bar really well; your stamina is also used up by attacking, rolling and blocking, which are obviously vitally important actions, but so is running because you probably need to run away from a lot of the enemies. So you always feel like running is dangerous, but often still very helpful.

Skyrim uses its stamina bar pretty badly. On the surface, it seems similar to the stamina bar in Dark Souls, although it's only used for power attacks and blocking, not for regular attacks or dodging. However, the thing that makes it fall flat isn't the reduced number of things that cost stamina - it's the fact that there's almost never any reason to run when enemies are present. You might run from a fight once or twice per playthrough at most, and you'll probably never suddenly encounter surprise enemies while running forward. As a result, the different costs never really interact with each-other, so you never have to think about whether you can afford to run or not. If there's a path in front of you that's more than about ten steps, you run until your bar's empty or you hit a wall. Then you let your bar refill and you start running again. When combined with the absurd amount of empty space in this game that you have to run through with no obstacles or enemies, sometimes for several minutes at a time, the fact that running costs stamina mostly just adds annoyance to the game's exploration.

Zelda: Skyward Sword uses its stamina bar horribly. It's only used for running, nothing else, and there's absolutely no point in the game where you'd ever want to save stamina for later. There might be one or two puzzles that makes you run to light torches before the first one goes out, but all you really have to do is run the whole time. The stamina bar is completely pointless and only serves to annoy the player by making them periodically slow down for no reason. I can absolutely imagine a Zelda game being filled with puzzles that required managing your stamina and speed carefully, but this game didn't do it.

author=BlackWolf1992
I like the idea of a stamina bar but I have no idea how I would go about doing it.

Yami wrote a stamina mechanic for dashing.

I wrote a script that, among other things, lets you change the function of dashing or disable it permanently.

Unity mentioned it before, but Yanfly has a nice script that gives players control over autodashing or not.