My Achievement system (it works, but sucks?)

I have created an Achievement system for my game and uploaded an example of it. It works, but I feel that its a very clumsy system I have made (160 events).

I wonder if someone who is a better coder then my could look at it and maybe change it so its not so clumsy and have so many events? Its also a real headache to add new stuff or extra achievements to it as it is now I feel with this many events and conditions.

Also I used up a lot of global values to be able to check if an achievement have been unlocked in the game and set the direction of the medal to the right direction if it has been fulfilled. Maybe I could use something else then globals? It need to be able to carry over all frames though.

I have attached my example to this thread. You can mouse over an achievement to make it "pulsate" and display its text. You can also use the arrow keys to jump between achievements if the player prefer keyboard controls.

Outcast,.it seems to be working the way it should. What don't you like about it and what are you trying to accomplish?

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Originally Posted by TheSmanman

Outcast,.it seems to be working the way it should. What don't you like about it and what are you trying to accomplish?

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Yes it works very well, but I just feel that I over complicated things with my coding? Maybe I didn't.. It just feels like the same results could be achieved with much lesser coding then 160 events? And if I want to put in more achievements I think I will have to change almost all the events to match this. It just feels a bit clumsy :/

I made something similar...
with 2 events 0.o
Something similar but without sound and all that

Download it and try it :D

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Originally Posted by devripper

I made something similar...
with 2 events 0.o
Something similar but without sound and all that

Download it and try it :D

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Wow 2 events!
It would be very nice if I did just a mouse based game :) I need it to support keyboard controls at the same time however, and preferable have an event that make the animation of the button "pulsating" by changing its size in event instead of by an extra animation (I need to conserve as much file size as possible due to it being for the Flash market)

You should make use of qualifiers, and then strings / values within the objects - as devripper has done with his example. You can cut down your amount of events by a long way even with keyboard control :)

Your goal should be to try and make the system as dynamic as possible, so that it is very easy to add a new achievement and not have to change any code at all, other than the starting values of the new object (achievement)

At least this is the way I would tackle this over the way you have done it.

Uh yeah I would use qualifiers and strings and values stored in the objects in question to cut down on a lot of events.

Could someone show how this would be made to work with both mouse and keyboard controls at the same time?

I am having some vague idea about having an active object and events that if you press Down key for example it sets the active object to its Y position + 15 or something and turn on a flag. Then it always activates the button the active is currently overlapping. But I dont know if this is best method..

Here you go. But this only works for the up and down arrow. If you want achievements to the sides too, you will need to do some changes :P

Bow down to this.

Global achievement system using no global values.

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Originally Posted by ChrisBurrows

Bow down to this, delightful people!

Global achievement system using no global values.

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This is cool! But is the Substring Replace object compatible with SWF? I do get an error when trying to build saying its not compatible, but when I try the built swf it seems to work :S I just want to make sure it could not cause any other bugs or error because it say its nor compatible

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Originally Posted by Yikes

Here you go. But this only works for the up and down arrow. If you want achievements to the sides too, you will need to do some changes :P

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If I first move with the arrows, and then point with mouse on another tile they both pulsate

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Originally Posted by Outcast

If I first move with the arrows, and then point with mouse on another tile they both pulsate

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Ah, I think you can fix that with an OR statement or something :) But yeah it probably needs some tweaking. I liked Chris Burrows' example better though :) Seems he put some more work into it :P

The SubString Replace extension is only used in the Toggle Achievement Completion menu. It is only referred to twice and these 2 actions can be removed at no cost.

A loop called "Completed" runs 18 times (1 time for each achievement) and on each loop it checks which flags of the Achievements object are on or off. If the flag is off, then 0 is returned and if the flag is on, then 0 is returned.

So for example:

Flag 1: On
Flag 2: On
Flag 3: Off
Flag 4: On
Flag 5: Off

Would return:

Flag 1: 1
Flag 2: 1
Flag 3: 0
Flag 4: 1
Flag 5: 0

And using the SubString Replace extension this becomes:

Flag 1: COMPLETE
Flag 2: COMPLETE
Flag 3:
Flag 4: COMPLETE
Flag 5:

The SubString Replace extension is ONLY there to make it easier for you to understand what is happening.

Delete it and everything will work fine. You can even delete frame 2 entirely (the frame containing the dreaded SubString Replace object). I only included this frame for you to test my method and see it works.

Ok I will try to see if I can change this! :) How do you transfer information between the frames without using global values?

Have you looked my example?

There is an object called "Achievements". If you check it's properties from within MMF, you will see it is a Global object.

Frame 1 and Frame 2 both have one of these "Achievements" objects and because it is a global object, it's values and flags are carried over frames.

In Frame 2 you can toggle on and off the flags of this object.

Frame 1 simply displays red or yellow squares depending on the corresponding flag being on or off.

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Originally Posted by ChrisBurrows

Have you looked my example?

There is an object called "Achievements". If you check it's properties from within MMF, you will see it is a Global object.

Frame 1 and Frame 2 both have one of these "Achievements" objects and because it is a global object, it's values and flags are carried over frames.

In Frame 2 you can toggle on and off the flags of this object.

Frame 1 simply displays red or yellow squares depending on the corresponding flag being on or off.

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Oh! I did not know that values where carried over frames just because they where Global Objects :S If that is the case, what are the real Global Values even good for? You could just have all your "global values" in an active that is always present in all frames?

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Correct.

Only real benefit is they are much neater in the event editor and that you can refer to them by their name alone.

For example, you have a global alterable value called "SHOTGUNAMMO".

If your player picks up more ammo, you can simply set a counter or whatever to "SHOTGUNAMMO + 12".

If you were to use an alterable value in a global object, you would have to write: "SHOTGUNAMMO( "Active Object 999" )+12".

AND WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT! Nobody.

Unless you are one of those people who click on all the all the little icons instead of typing out the code manually because you know MMF better than you know your own wife, in which case it makes no difference and you should never ever ever use global values.

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Originally Posted by ChrisBurrows

Correct.

Only real benefit is they are much neater in the event editor and that you can refer to them by their name alone.

For example, you have a global alterable value called "SHOTGUNAMMO".

If your player picks up more ammo, you can simply set a counter or whatever to "SHOTGUNAMMO + 12".

If you were to use an alterable value in a global object, you would have to write: "SHOTGUNAMMO( "Active Object 999" )+12".

AND WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT! Nobody.

Unless you are one of those people who click on all the all the little icons instead of typing out the code manually because you know MMF better than you know your own wife, in which case it makes no difference and you should never ever ever use global values.

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I don't like global values because once you make them you cant remove them or rearrange them so now I will only use global object to store values in from now on! :P

Btw I would think that you know mmf better if you can write everything manually? :)