[Ohrrpgce] Achievements

[Ralph Versteegen]

On 21/10/2018, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:
> The last few days I've been really busy with other stuff, but I'm
> working on fixing joysticks now.
>
> I'm also thinking ahead to achievements. I figure even if they were
> only partially done by the time KBB is released, it might be good to
> at least be able to track them so that players can earn achievements
> even if they're not aware of them.
>
> Step one is to let you define achievements and earn them.
> I figure there should be three ways to do so:
> -as a textbox conditional (triggered after the textbox advances, so it
> isn't shown over the textbox)
> -via script commands
> -by setting tags. The achievement would stay unlocked if the tags are
> later changed back. (Note that this means that the achievement could
> be unlocked during a battle or while you're inside some menu where
> scripts can't normally run
>
> Step two is integration with steam.
> Additionally, progress on achievements can be downloaded from steam,
> so that it's shared between multiple computers. But that can be
> implemented later.
>
> Step three is an alternative way to show achievements in-game if the
> game isn't being run via steam. That should be pretty straightforward.
> But there should also be a new menu to show a list of achievements
> you've unlocked, which is more work.
>
> I guess there are two types of achievements: those unlocked directly,
> and those which have a progress bar.
I forgot to write: progressive achievements would have a quantity
required to unlock, and textbox conditionals would add 1 to their
counter. They could also have a list of (any number of) tags, each of
which adds 1 when turned on. (So tags which have already been flipped
will need to be tracked so that they aren't counted again). Also they
should have an option to say whether they remain hidden until they are
unlocked.

> Also, steam lets you fetch info about achievements such as their
> description and image, but I think we'll probably ignore that and
> require duplicating that info inside Custom. (If steam is handling the
> display of achievement popups, it won't be needed anyway)
>