The Wonderland Board

Me and Dlcs on Skype wrote:[4:19:09 PM] Qtheman says: I'm still thinking on if it would be a good idea to use the Hub system to make a project in the WA Editor
[4:19:38 PM] Qtheman says: Cuz it would be awesome
[4:19:58 PM] Qtheman says: but obviously I can't throw together that amount of adventures for it =\
[4:21:12 PM] Dlcs18 says: You don't need to throw them together.
[4:21:18 PM] Dlcs18 says: You just need to make them
[4:21:22 PM] Qtheman says: Well you know what I mean XD
[4:21:26 PM] Dlcs18 says: XD
[4:21:48 PM] Qtheman says: Hmmm
[4:21:56 PM] Dlcs18 says: Eh I think it's too buggy, that hub system
[4:22:03 PM] Qtheman says: I suppose that it would be more useful as a collaboration
[4:22:44 PM] Dlcs18 says: You know that would be interesting if all of the main-adventure makers made a collaboration together actually
[4:22:58 PM] Dlcs18 says: we'd have the thing completly varied by different brains
[4:23:10 PM] Qtheman says: We should go post something like that O_o
[4:23:26 PM] Dlcs18 says: Maybe we should

cbloopy wrote:Oh, I have no problem getting the adventure stars in the editor, the real problem is that it isn't quite enough. Here's what I know so far about hubs in the editor:

- If you put an adventure star and step onto it, the editor will still look for the adventure in c:\WA Editor v096\Data\Adventures\Adventure<N>, just like the actual game. Instead of the folder where your custom adventure is stored. So if there're two separate adventures with hubs that someone wants to play, they'll need to do the copying themselves whenever they switch from playing one to the other.

- It looks like the information on where you end up on the hub (level file number, x, y) after completing an adventure or aborting, that's actually stored in the master.dat file of the adventure. As are presumably the actions triggered in the hub for winning the adventure. Needless to say, the editor right now doesn't have any means for you to edit those information in a master.dat file.

- In the real games, whenever you create a new player profile, the game will copy all the levels and dialog files from <game main folder>\Data\Adventures\Hub into a "Hub" folder somewhere inside the player profile folder. This is not done automatically in the editor however, but the game will still look for the Hub folder in the player profile folder for level files for the hub. So you'd need whoever's playing to do the copying themselves.

- The custom adventure player will probably not be able to show your progress (whether you won or got "Gold") in the adventure selection screen, since your progress is no longer confined to a single adventure when you start having hubs.

So while it's not impossible, it would be very difficult right now to work with hubs for both the adventure designer and the player, because both the editor and the player is missing some pieces to properly support hubs for custom adventures. It would probably be best to wait for Patrick on this.

Hub Area wrote: -Qloof234
-Dlcs18
-jdl

Adventures wrote: -Qloof234
-Dlcs18
-JohnEmmanuel143
-jdl
-sewel5
-AJQZC

Art Direction wrote: -Qloof234

Testers wrote: -Qloof234
-cbloopy
-Sammy P

jdl wrote:You get transported into the Forum, (you can get the forum image by using Cbloopy's rectangle.) and you step on the persons username on the forum index and get transported into their Adventure. The Adventure would be all about that person, describing about him/her. What kind of person he/she is.

Qloof234 wrote:Here's an idea: Before you start the... Game, I suppose. Before you start the game, perhaps we could have a telport button where you can see some adventures saying a bit about the designers. Each one could deactivate a gate, and once they're all down you can walk onto another teleport that starts the actual game itself.

cbloopy wrote:

jdl wrote:You get transported into the Forum, (you can get the forum image by using Cbloopy's rectangle.) and you step on the persons username on the forum index and get transported into their Adventure. The Adventure would be all about that person, describing about him/her. What kind of person he/she is.

Oh wow, now that's a really creative idea!

I think I'd still prefer a more traditional, Wonderland-oriented storyline, but it would be fun anyway to see your forum idea come to fruit someday, maybe as another project.

Qloof234 wrote:

Testers wrote: -Qloof234

cbloopy wrote:

Qloof234 wrote:Here's an idea: Before you start the... Game, I suppose. Before you start the game, perhaps we could have a teleport button where you can see some adventures saying a bit about the designers. Each one could deactivate a gate, and once they're all down you can walk onto another teleport that starts the actual game itself.

This reminds me of the (spoilers?) secret area in MOFI, except in your case it would not be a secret and would come before the actual game, rather than near the end of it.

My response wrote:That's what I was thinking of when I suggested that. However, it really depends on how Patrick would like us putting a MoFI-area-clone right at the beginning...

Dear Readers,

I would like to inform,that from making adventures,to making huge adventures
and to Hexing,Qloof,jdl,and Dcls did a good job!Hey!Don't forget cbloopy too!He made these things possible!
With all your help,I am sure that The Community Project will grow into a sucessful project!
I wish you all good lucks in doing it!;)

You're Playmate in DBFI,
John Emmanuel;)

JohnEmmanuel143 wrote:Let me guess,you fell for the Cage Trap????

JohnEmmanuel143 wrote:Am I left here in the forum????:(

Qloof234 wrote:EDIT: @jdl: Thanks to USB Drives, I'm gonnna take a look at it now. Working on it at school FTW!