Jeff Vogel posts on progress of BoA
Jeff Vogel posts on progress of BoA
Development Info - posted by Saint_Proverbius on Sat 11 January 2003, 00:43:57
Tags: Blades of AvernumJeff Vogel, that zany, one man superstar over at Spiderweb Software has posted this thread about some progress on what you can do with Blades of Avernum, which is due out this year:
Sometimes I even outsmart myself.
Since the BoA scripting engine is fairly versatile, some behaviors that were requested but I didn't want to implement are in anyway.
Suppose, for example, you don't want anyone in the scenario to have the Unlock Doors spell or Blademaster and Gymnastics skill, and want to have all of the monsters in the scenario only take 10% damage from fire and 70% damage from melee weapons.
You can, when a party enters the scenario, remove the offending skills and spells and then restore them to the party when they quit the scenario. You can also customize monster vulnerability to damage to a great extent.
This would, of course, be terrible design. But you can do it.
Finally, someone suggested a great way to introduce custom abilites, so the game will have custom abilities. Also, you can make items with custom abilities.
Flexibility, never a bad thing. There's gobs more detail on this subject in that thread for those interested.
Those who aren't interested will be summarily shot.
Sometimes I even outsmart myself.
Since the BoA scripting engine is fairly versatile, some behaviors that were requested but I didn't want to implement are in anyway.
Suppose, for example, you don't want anyone in the scenario to have the Unlock Doors spell or Blademaster and Gymnastics skill, and want to have all of the monsters in the scenario only take 10% damage from fire and 70% damage from melee weapons.
You can, when a party enters the scenario, remove the offending skills and spells and then restore them to the party when they quit the scenario. You can also customize monster vulnerability to damage to a great extent.
This would, of course, be terrible design. But you can do it.
Finally, someone suggested a great way to introduce custom abilites, so the game will have custom abilities. Also, you can make items with custom abilities.
Flexibility, never a bad thing. There's gobs more detail on this subject in that thread for those interested.
Those who aren't interested will be summarily shot.
