Thanks! I took a bit of hints from how RimWorld does its tutorial. The game has conditionals checking for specific events and calls the tutorial prompt for it. The same sort of logic is set up for achievements! And if the event was already called, nothing happens.
Thanks to the whole game using coroutines for gameplay, halting the whole game loop to display prompts has been especially easy and that helped me integrate this sort of thing with little effort
Thanks for the info. How do you define your coroutines? Are you storing an array of actions or something, and then if one of those actions triggers a tutorial or achievement event, it pauses to process those before continuing with the rest of the actions in the array? Or is it even simpler than that?
Yeah pretty much! Here's the turn function which is all that stuff that happens between choosing a horror and checking if someone died from it. (there's coroutine stuff there for tutorials and such as well!) So each turn in the main loop is basically just
var loser:Player = await turn(remaining_players)
and then that's
## Returns the player with the lowest score func turn(_selected_players:Array = []) -> Player: set_active_players(_selected_players) var chosen_actions:Dictionary[Player, Action] = await get_chosen_actions(_selected_players) await trigger_actions(chosen_actions.values(), Effect.Trigger.BeforeScoring) var score_buckets:Dictionary[int, Array] = score_actions(chosen_actions) var losers:Array = get_lowest_scoring_players(score_buckets) if losers.size() > 1: await tutorial.trigger(Tutorial.Flag.Ties) await trigger_actions(get_all_actions(), Effect.Trigger.Tied) Game.play_sfx(Game.SFX.Boom) return await turn(losers) return losers[0]
Oh wait! It's doing more than that, it returns all actions in the players hands. This was meant for an action effect that I never actually added. In theory a card could do something extra if a tie triggers while it's in your hand. I do have cards that have a bonus when playing during ties but that's a different mechanism. I think I was planning on the growth ability to be a tie only thing but that made it way too slow, and tbh even per turn felt too slow which is why unlockable characters growth cards grow way faster.
