Tower of Hanoi Puzzle

vigrid

Hi!

As a part of a game I'm working on, the player character has to solve a Tower of Hanoi puzzle with 3 rods and 3 discs. It seems like an awful lot of actions would have to be created in the Action List Editor, and even more if my designer would decide he'd like a stack of 4 discs to be moved

The action will be driven by dialogue (e.g.: "Move from stack A" - "Move to stack B") as we've decided against using inventory as intermediate store for the disc.

What's the best way to approach such a problem in Adventure Creator?

Teshla

I'd go with programming a custom action for any kind of mini-game puzzle. If the puzzle is more complex I'd suggest to program it without AC and only interface with AC while starting, solving or failing a puzzle. To send messages to your custom script and thus capture a start of a puzzle I'd go with "Send message" Action that runs a custom method from AC actions and after puzzle completion or failure I'd go with [SomeAction].Interact() method to move on from custom script to actionlist actions. So that would be my recommended entry/exit points into/out of custom mini-game puzzles.

ChrisIceBox

Yes, custom scripting would be the way to go if you want to avoid a complex Action tree.  The best way to avoid this would be to write a new script that handles everything, and simply disable AC for the puzzle's duration.

You can selectively disable AC's systems using the Engine: Manage systems Action - this way you could de-activate the movement and interaction systems, but still retain the dialogue system.  ActionLists can be called manually by running their Interact() function.

vigrid

Thank you, Teshla and ChrisIceBox. I created a custom MonoBehaviour to drive the puzzle logic and simply sent messages to it like you recommended. It worked like a charm.