A Touch of Evil Android app

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(07-31-2012 09:38 AM)HikariStarshine Wrote:  So, just out of curiosity, does your app address the Delion Dryad's advanced ability where she gets a boost every time the Shadow Track enters a new section, whether up or down?

I hadn't fully committed to trying to automate Villain abilities such as her's pr the Scarecrow's "Feeds on Fear" just yet. But I don't think it would be tooooo difficult.

Mostly I'm worried about the very dumb ways I'm sure I've programmed most functions. I'm not a seasoned coder and while the app is rather simple to put together, there are some things that would probably be approached differently by someone more clever than I.

I'll try to explain my thought process a bit with the Shadow Track and the Dryad, it exists currently only as a single, basic number variable that starts at 20 and goes down or up when you tap or long-press. It's no smarter than that. So I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate these abilities so the functionality won't get broken when the Shadow Track might go up and down a few times. I can picture an instruction that says something like, "If Shadow Track=16, Then Wounds=(WoundsNumber+1)". And so on for the other sections in the track...that seems simple enough. But, it goes both ways, if the track moves away from darkness as well. And so I need to cover if the Shadow Track moves back to number 17...but I can't just copy that earlier instruction and say "If Shadow Track=17, Then Wounds=(WoundsNumber+1)" because that would affect her wounds on the way down the track, giving her an additional wound at 17 and 16. Does that make sense?

So rather than just working off of the existing Shadow Track variable, I think I'll need to add more variables to make it work, a "ShadowTrackSection" variable that goes from 1-4, to work in conjunction with these abilities, or some way that 'alerts' or 'announces' when a new section is entered where appropriate Villains would be 'listening' for this alert and adjust the stats accordingly.

I think it's certainly possible, and could be quite handy, it's just something that I'll need to stretch my brain a bit to get figured out elegantly and smartly.