tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72147777366395723072024-11-01T13:33:59.956+03:00Level Up!Game designer noteschehobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737938699521408441noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7214777736639572307.post-47833180484584169762010-09-11T20:18:00.000+04:002010-09-11T20:18:02.156+04:00Trading must be funYesterday I was discussing Ragnarok Online trading system with a friend of mine and some interesting thoughts were found.
What I was thinking about - there is no fun involved with trading in RO, therefore it is not considered as a part of gameplay, rather a trivial function.
The trading profession in RO called "merchant" has only that Vending skill involved in trading, which allows players to chehobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737938699521408441noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7214777736639572307.post-79517566387000447392010-08-08T16:58:00.001+04:002010-08-08T17:00:02.015+04:00Resource files management IVPrevious posts:
Resource files management. Part I
Resource files management. Part II
Resource files management. Part III
Okay, so far we've been writing helper classes and now we're getting to the main stuff: ResourceFile class.
ResourceFile is pretty simple, let's take a look over its interface:
class ResourceFile
{
protected:
ResFileHeader mFileHeader; &chehobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737938699521408441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7214777736639572307.post-23767877401159969682010-08-07T12:08:00.003+04:002010-08-08T16:58:57.638+04:00Resource files management IIIResource files management. Part I
Resource files management. Part II
In previous post I wrote about implementation of data structures of the resource file.
Today's topic will be serialization of resource files.
File types
Ok, to retrieve our resources first of all we'll need to define basic methods of reading and writing with files.
In C++ it could be done simply using file streams. Refresh chehobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737938699521408441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7214777736639572307.post-35258047803493653752010-08-06T15:09:00.006+04:002010-08-08T16:59:51.223+04:00Resource files management IIResource files management. Part I
Last time I've described resource files and their data structure. Let's continue with management of resource files.
Lump and ResourceFile objects
Resource files are implemented as objects and may be included in other programs to utilize resource files. I'm using C++, though the provided concept may be written in any other programming language.
In the chehobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737938699521408441noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7214777736639572307.post-76599629173547929552010-07-24T16:56:00.013+04:002010-08-08T17:00:28.131+04:00Resource files management
First of all, a little bit of theory before I present actual implementation. Let's find out what is a resource file and why we would want to use them.
Resource files
Ok, we all know that video games consist of various components like sound effects, music, 3d models, textures, fonts, scripts etc. Each piece of these is a File.
When you build your game, you add these components, file by file andchehobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15737938699521408441noreply@blogger.com0