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Like in the game Crypt of the Necrodancer, this game has a rhythm timing aspect to it.
This means the player doing actions like moving and attacking is checked against A “True/False” Bool that switches on and off to the beat of the music playing.A “True/False” Bool Check will be done via playmaker and handled by a playmaker state machine and the bool is exposed via a playmaker bool global variable.
However: Our game is going to be more forgiving then Necrodancer from a design sense in that:
Failing to match the beat to movement input incurs no penalties.
Successfully match the beat to movement input rewards a bonus.
That bonus will be determined through other scripts / playmaker state machines.
This means the player doing actions like moving and attacking is checked against the beat of the music playing.
Similar Examples from other games
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The player controller for Dungeon Movement in this game is almost identical. The differences lay in what happens when the player successfully or fails to move to the beat.
However: Our game is going to be more forgiving then Necrodancer from a design sense in that:
Failing to match the beat to movement input incurs no penalties.
Successfully match the beat to movement input rewards a bonus.
That bonus will be determined through other scripts / playmaker state machines.
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A “On Beat” Check will also be made to see if the interaction was done to the beat of the music. If it is that triggers a global variable true bool that may incur some bonuses for the player.
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Disable Player Movement Control
There are multiple times when Dungeon Movement needs to be disabled. Such as when the player is in a battle sequence or trying to solve a puzzle on screen. Possibly even cutscenes.
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The following variables for the component script should be exposed in the unity Inspector window to allow some customization and design tuning.
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Like as seen here for the sprite renderer componenet. Options are available to the designer:
Variable Name | Variable type | Playmaker or Animator Integration? | Description | Default Variable Setting: |
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Movement UP | Keyboard Input | The input needed to move up. (+Y) | W | |
Movement DOWN | Keyboard Input | The input needed to move down. (-Y) | S | |
Movement LEFT | Keyboard Input | The input needed to move left. (-X) | A | |
Movement RIGHT | Keyboard Input | The input needed to move Right. (+X) | D | |
Action Button 1 | Keyboard Input | The input needed to count an action. | Spacebar | |
Movement Distance | Float | The distance in unity units the player moves per successful input | 1 | |
Movement Time | Float | The time in seconds it takes for the player character to physically move from the initial location to the destination location. Setting to -1 will equate to instant movement. | 0.1 | |
Next Movement Delay | Float | The time in seconds that the player has to wait until another movement input will register and send off checks. Setting to -1 will equate to no delay | 0.1 | |
Next Action Delay | Float | The time in seconds that the player has to wait until they can perform another action after completing one. Setting to -1 will equate to no delay | 0.1 | |
Playmaker Integrations: | ||||
On Beat Check | Bool Name | Playmaker global variable | The name of the playmaker global variable bool that it checks to see if the input was made “On Beat” The true / false state of this variable is determined external to this script. | On Beat? |
On Beat Move Success | Bool Name | Playmaker global variable | The name of the playmaker global variable bool this script sets to true if the “On Beat Check” comes back as true on a movement input. A playmaker state machine will check for the true change and then reset it back to false after an amount of time. | On Beat Move Success |
On Beat Interaction Success | Bool Name | Playmaker global variable | The name of the playmaker global variable bool this script sets to true if the “On Beat Check” comes back as true on a object interaction input. A playmaker state machine will check for the true change and then reset it back to false after an amount of time. | On Beat Interaction Success |
Movement Disabled | Bool Name | Playmaker global variable | The name of the playmaker global variable this script checks to see if it needs to disable movement. The script should be making this check quite often. | Move Disabled? |
Unity Animator Integrations: | ||||
Animator Component Location | Object Path | The path location of the object that has the character “animator” component attached to it. | (None) | |
Movement Animator Name | Trigger (Animator) Name | Animator | The name of the animator trigger variable it triggers when a successful movement is made. | Character Move |
On Beat Move Animator Name | Trigger (Animator) Name | Animator | The name of the animator trigger variable that it triggers when a movement is made “On Beat” | Character On Beat |
No Movement Animator Name | Trigger (Animator) Name | Animator | The name of the animator trigger variable that it triggers when an input resulted in no movement. | Character No Movement |
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