My Achievement system (it works, but sucks?)

[Outcast]

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.

[KLiK-iT]

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

[Outcast]

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

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 :/

[devripper]

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

Download it and try it

[Outcast]

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

Download it and try it

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)

[Spike]

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.

[Corlen]

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

[Outcast]

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..

[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

[ChrisBurrows]

Bow down to this.

Global achievement system using no global values.