Hi all,
We are working on a "Global Events" feature which will animate the World Map and add some flavour to AOF series. Those are fired semi-randomly while player is accessing World Map. Those are short dialogues or even shorter event image and a note.
Global Events are fired semi-randomly while players are accessing the World Map.
Global Events have a dual purpose of introducing lore and soft-balancing game. Those are short dialogues or even shorter event image and a note:
We already have 40 of them and more are in progress. This feature will be a part of Open World where player can freely roam AOF world.
However, I would ask for your help if could you please help us to create more of Global Events?
Our scripting engine allows for some variety in checking for conditions:
- if a given unit’s type exists in the player’s team and also gives count, for example if there are more than two Black Knights in the player’s team
- If a given unit’s race exists in the player’s team, for example if there are more than five goblins in the player’s team
- Checks for owned items (and counts)
- Checks for gold amounts owned by the party
- Conditions can be combined
- There are many other possible checks - see Modding Guide in Steam Workshop for more details
Additionally Global Events support optional executions-limit which limits total times a given event is triggered. So you can decide if an event is a one time thing or a recurrent one.
The results of such events don’t have to be impactful and can just introduce lore. Some examples:
- A comet has flown by (nothing happens)
- One of the party goblins was cheating in a dice game and the other goblins beat him up (permanent wound for one Goblin and -100 gold)
- Dwarf rouge shares his the stolen good profit (+200 gold)
- The party's Necromancer gets annoyed by the monk’s daily prayers and beats him up (monk gets permanent wound)
We already have 40 of them and more are in progress. However, you are very welcome to share any ideas you might have.
The examples are in files there:
http://age-of-fear.net/downloads/shared-globalevents.xml
However, you don't need to code, just sharing ideas in this post in enough:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/431700/discussions/0/1694917906662452856/
Please just describe in few words what do you have in mind and I will be hopefully able to code that in.
Have a nice weekend,
Les & AOF Team