Dynamic hint system

Ramses

I would like to implement a dynamic hint sytem in my game, which is pretty much standard in adventure games these days. First I just created a Button which opens a "hint book" with hints to all puzzles in the gam.

But now I am wondering how to realize a system based on the player's progress to just tell him what to do next.  I was thinking about setting giving each puzzle a variable which will be set to true after solving - but I am not sure if this is the most efficient way or how to change the contents of my hint book at runtime.

Anybody else maybe working on that feature?

THX!

ChrisIceBox

You can try splitting your hint book into different menus (or at least menu elements), that show and hide based on your player's progress in the game.  Use the Menu: Change state Action to change elements, and lock/unlock menus.  Changes aren't currently recorded between scenes, but this'll be fixed in 1.32.

Ramses

Good idea to make each hint a menu item - and since my scene are more like independant levels I don't have the problem you mentioned, I can simply create a hint menu for each scene - but good to know for the future :-)