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Reputation: 3358

Database for a multi-user RPG

I'm making a Flash turn-based RPG to practice OOP (who doesn't :P) I have a pretty good setup with the Weapons, Items, and all that Jazz. Though I'm currently considering how I will make my characters.

Currently I have an player and enemy class that extends the battler class. 

     Battler
      /  \
     /    \
 Player  Enemy

My player class has some functions that initialize the player itself, adding the graphics and all that. My party class calls on player, passing a paramater like so: player.setup(1) with 1 being the playerID.

To Clarify this is my player pseudocode:

{   setup(player_id)
    player =  **??????player_id??????????**
    name = player.name
    character_name = player.character_name
    character_index = player.character_index
    weapon_id = player.returnWeapon
 /*---------
    armor1_id = player.returnArmor //increase for other body parts
 ----------*/
    level = player.level
}

My question, or more of a problem is how I will store the player data. I need to have many players as this is a game with many players in a party.

How will I actually use something like player.returnArmor ? Because when I do that it just calls a function, and it will not know who that player is (I guess I could use parameters, like player.returnArmor(player) but I think there is a better way to do this.

Any language is welcome, but just so you don't use assembly language as an example ;), C++, Actionscript 3, Ruby, and/or Java is fine. Please Help Me! Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 364

Answers (2)

Luke Van In
Luke Van In

Reputation: 5265

It might be worth considering using an entity system, where each item in the game is treated as a collection of unrelated properties (location, velocity, bitmap/mesh) which can be managed separately. This tends to make the hard problems easier (scalability, synchronisation, storage).

Upvotes: 2

Marsh
Marsh

Reputation: 8145

In AS3 you can have static and instance functions. If you call player.returnarmor(), you're calling a static function. You want to have an instance function, and call it for the instance of the player whose armor value you want.

If you have a few (<4) characters, you can just have named variables for each, but more than 3 or 4 and you should just have an array or other container for them.

var mainProtagonist:player;
var spunkySidekick:player;
var whiteMage:player;
var players:Array = new Array();
players.push(mainProtagonist);
players.push(spunkySidekick);
players.push(whiteMage);

Then to get a player's armor...we'll say you want the spunky sidekick's armor:

players[1].returnarmor();
// or
spunkySidekick.returnarmor();

You might have an array of all the players in existence, as well as another array, when used in battle, with just the players in the current party/battle. That way your enemies can target players at random, and only from those currently in the battle.

Upvotes: 2

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