Tips/Advice on creating an Exorcist(for hire) setting

[thesentinel]

@robinjohnson

I have no coding tips but if your game has an exorcist for hire and does not include the line “If you do not keep up payments, your home may be repossessed” it will not be all it could have been.

haha, i’ll keep that in mind

@saabie

You don’t have to limit your game to one or the other, in a parser game you can have a command like “cast spell” which then lists all of the options like in a choice game and lets you choose one by typing a number.

@HanonO

I’m the resident AXMA Story Maker freak, and it does offer really nice input differences between “make a choice” “make a choice where you can only select one or multiple things” (like a radio button) and “type your input in the box below” which goes to a variable if you wanted that kind of flexibility. I can see easily making a “spell interface” where your incantations are three words each, and offering separate boxes for “word1/word2/word3” and a “CAST!” button, which would make parsing individual words a bit easier, and also creating a story reason why the input must be in all caps. SPELLS WORK BETTER WHEN YOU SAY EACH WORD LOUDLY!

thanks for the tips.

what i do had in mind is having both choice and input options, but make the spells and rituals based on culture with in-game books and journals explaining the nature of it.

so for example, necromancy and exorcism would require verbal dexterity(gamewise, the user must be able to type the exact words) and long wordy ones like in my first post are for powerful demons/spirits.

While egyptian or mayan are choice based so you can juggle words to create a spell.
ex.
[ri-a]-[barak]-[daw’]

(ra - bless - light – ‘in Ra’s name, bless this light’)
a spell to use on an electrical light source to turn it into sunlight to use against vampires