Hi Phil, Well, for now I'm not going to add any kind of editer etc to the game. The reason is I want each and every wrestler to have a different artificial intelligence, his or her own unique moves, and to really make each and every match completely different where you will have to change your strategy and tactics when stepping into the ring with a different wrestler. This is much like real life when two guys get into the ring with completely different fighting styles. This is far more worth while to me as a gamer then just writing some generic artificial intelligence that is a one-sized fits all approach. That is exactly what I don't like about Wrestling League Manager and Piledriver, and why I wanted to rewrite them in the first place.
Let's take Pile Driver for example. It allows you to create custom wrestlers and add them to the database, and to create your own custom federation. That's fair enough. However, in order to do that the game uses some generic artificial intelligence that changes slightly from wrestler to wrestler based on what ever you put into the editer. That's ok, but after playing a while I can pretty much figure out how each and every wrestler will react because the artificial intelligence is actually pretty simplistic. Not only that it fails to take in account a guy like Andre the Giant is too big and heavy to pull off a high flying drop kick so the game should take that into account. Unfortunately, the artificial intelligence is so poor in the game it did do exactly that in a game, and I was ready to just delete the game on the spot. In my personal opinion knowing that Andre couldn't pull off that move in real life the game cheated. So I want a game that is more fair and balanced. The only way to avoid the Andre pulling off the impossible drop kick from happening is to write an artificial intelligence for every wrestler, or creating an editer that allows you to select from a list of each and every possible move imaginable and enabling/disabling it on a per wrestler basis. Either way it is a nightmarish amount of coding. The other reason I am not keen on adding an editer is I currently don't have the skills to do it. Oh, I could do what Jim Kichen does by storing names and stats in a text file or something like that, but that's not what I had in mind here. If I have an editor it would have to allow the person to custom create the artificial intelligence, moves, and everything to create a specific wrestler which I'm not sure how to do. Not only that since my game is completely object oriented how do you create a custom object from outside the game itself. I haven't a clue. I suppose the way it would work is the file gets read into a generic object and then use that generic object as the reference to the custom wrestler. I'd have to experiment with it which I'm not really interested in spending x amount of time on research. I just want to write it. Cheers! On 4/13/11, Phil Vlasak <p...@pcsgames.net> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > One thing that Harry did was to allow some people to create team sets for > the Baseball game. > So if they wanted the 1980 Toronto Blue Jays in the game they had the > ability to create it. > The set creating software asked you the person's name and then went through > the stats and you filled in the appropriate edit boxes. > When done the game file was saved with the year and team name such as the > 80bluejays.dat > If you did the same with the wrestling game, then the purists could help you > create the players and have that as an option. > So you could have Rock Cold Steve Auston, a fantasy player, in the game but > a player could create the Stone Cold Steve Auston using his real stats. > The one problem with fantasy wrestlers is that their strengths, weaknesses, > abilities and moves would not be known like the real wrestler's are. > It would be important to give an overall score for each one to allow you to > know how good he or she was. > We also considered adjustable player's stats, so when the Viper beat Stone > Cold Steve Auston, his total score would drop as the Viper's would go up. > One way to show someone's score would be to list them by score, with the > highest scoring wrestler at the top of the list. > Phil > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
