A Game Idea

• We watched the M*A*S*H episode For Want of a Boot the other day.
  • Hawkeye has a hole in his boot, so he gots to the Supply Sargent to get a new pair of boots.
  • But the Supply Sargent will only give him a pair of boots if the gets the Dentist to fix the Supply Sargent's teeth
  • But the Dentist will only fix the Sargent's teeth if he gets a 3 day pass to Tokyo
  • But he can oly get a three day pass if ...
• We could build a game around this.
  • There are a number of levels.
  • Each level contains a Link in the chain.
    • All links but the first have an object.
    • All links but the last want something in exchange for their object.
  • The player needs to go from one link to another, exploring until they find the end of the chain.
  • Then they need to bring the objects to the links one at a time until the reach the first link.
• While not the most fun game, it will let us explore blueprints.
• I think we will need the following classes
  • A transporter, like we discussed a while ago.
    • But it would be nice if we could add destinations
    • And a switch that allows the player to select the destination.
    • Think the "Glass Elevator" in Willy Wonka
    • I supose we will need to know how to append to an array.
    • And how to implemnet a switch.
  • A link
    • This will have an item and want an item.
• The big problem I see is levels
  • When a level is loaded, it is initialized, so no cary over data.
  • When a level is loaded a new version of the player is loaded as well. Agan no carry over
• We need a more permenant storage option.