Getting a child’s attention
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We have basic behavior for the children in our game, as you can see in my blog post “Making a child behave”, but I want to reach further into the depths of a child’s mind and implement attention. The children can currently be idle, lost or follow you blindly, but what if there is a pretty shining light nearby? Shouldn’t that distract them? What if there is an enemy chasing them? Should their focus not be on getting away? I am now attempting to make the children come even more to life and for that I will have to implement even more states, but how would attention work? I think that certain objects and creatures should increase the chance of a child losing its focus. To keep the children focused on their mother, the player would have to communicate with them and not go too far away. I am currently working to implement a communication system between the mother and the children and that hopefully will work well with our game and aesthetic goals. CommunicationCurrently the player can use a sound which the children can answer to, if they are close enough, revealing their position both with light and sound. What I want to do is to give the player different commands to use, like: wait, follow or just respond Wait Keep Close AttentionI am thinking of making attention in the form of a stat. It increases closer to the player and decreases further away. If a child with low attention pass by a distracting or frightening object or creature it will ether curiously move toward it or try to get a away from it. In the process the child would lose its focus on the player.  |