MIRAK'S PROFILE

Dark text is no longer! Long live pretty gamepages!

Club Nintendo was my favorite. It was one of the very few mexican videogame magazines, and it was very valued and precious back then. If you brought a club nintendo issue to school you were the cool kid of the day.



It stopped publication many years ago, but while it lasted it was a very beautiful monthly magazine full of very personal articles written by known mexican videogame nerds that sadly have long since moved on with their family lives.

The very first issues I had had complete guides to levels of various games like Mario 2 and 3, the first Zelda and stuff, and the map "screenshots", including every single tile and sprite, were all hand drawn with airbrush since this was a time where it was either that or crappy blurry camera photos of the screens, and this being one of those unique "for the love of the art" magazine, they always went the extra mile.

It used to cost $8 Old Pesos.

It's because in the second page you need to substract the candle from the player's inventory in order for that event page's trigger not to exist anymore, otherwise you still have a candle and so the condition for the second page still triggers. Events trigger in the priority of the order of their pages, so the third page of your event won't work because the second page's condition, which comes first and thus has priority, is still activating.

In any case, I think you can do this urn thing with just two pages.

Here's how I would personally do it:

If you want it to be permanent between rooms, this is what the event would look like:



This does the same thing your event does but in two pages, let me explain from top to bottom what's happening in there, but first take a look at the bottom left corner, in the Options I disabled the walking animation (since we don't need it when the urn won't move, and if it moves like if you need a character to "push" it, we don't want it switching graphics when it moves), I also turned Direction Fix on, so that you can talk to the urn from any direction without the urn changing graphics in order to "face" you.

Now, the events. From top to bottom:

First, there is a conditional branch checking if you have the candle in your inventory. If you have it, a message saying "Logan used the candle" will show up, after you discard the message, the Fire1 sound effect will play, and then, I remove the candle from the player's inventory. You maybe don't want to do this, so just don't add this one if you want to make the candle a permanent inventory item. Lastly I turn it's self switch A on. Then below that, is the "else" state of the conditional branch that checks if you have the candle. This is, what happens when you DON'T have the candle in the first place. I put a text window that says "I need something to light this thing!", which will show up if you don't have the candle.

Then, in a second page, you do this:



Notice that in the options, the stepping animation and direction fix are on for this page, and the walking animation is also off. This is to make sure the fire is animated (the stepping animation is basically telling the event to "walk in place", while the walking animation only animates the event when it is moving to another tile. It's a bit confusing but you get used to it.), and that the graphic won't change when we talk to it from different sides.

The reason we use a self switch instead of the normal switches, it's because if you have more than one urn, they'll need their own individual switches, otherwise all the urns would turn on when you light just one. Using a switch slot for every urn would be a drag, so we use Self switches. These are four personal switches (from A to D) that every event has, and they'll be active only for THOSE events. It makes it perfect to activate switches that belong to a single event.

Not offended, it's coo just very very tired

I'd propose "Best use of original assets" maybe.
Doesn't hurt to support people who do the effort of creating stuff from scratch.