Making a simple puzzle

[gearbox15]

Hello I'm a newbie who is trying to create a simple puzzle but I can't figure out how to make it.

Here is how I want it to go.

There four column which are basically buttons that the player needs to press in the right order to make an object appear in the room.

If they press the correct button there is a positive sound effect and they move to the next button.

If they press the wrong button there is a negative sound effect and they have start over.

(Please note that themselves column do not change verbally.)

The issue is that I don't know how to code the tutorials I have watched/read keep going over my head since they don't explain how things like switch or variables work or how to actually put them in any kind of order.

Any help that is offered would greatly be appreciated.

 

[MushroomCake28]

You create 4 button events that can be triggered. For each of them, you set a conditional with a variable as a condition. If the variable is equal to a certain value (which will be the order in which you press each switch), play the positive sound and add 1 to the variable. If the player is wrong (which means the "else" branch of that conditional), play the negative sound and reset the variable to 0 (assuming the player will have to restart the puzzle)

 

[Shaz]

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/inde...-press-buttons-in-correct-order-puzzle.70966/

In step 3, you want the "second version" that will reset the puzzle as soon as they press the wrong button.

 

[gearbox15]

You create 4 button events that can be triggered. For each of them, you set a conditional with a variable as a condition. If the variable is equal to a certain value (which will be the order in which you press each switch), play the positive sound and add 1 to the variable. If the player is wrong (which means the "else" branch of that conditional), play the negative sound and reset the variable to 0 (assuming the player will have to restart the puzzle)

Ok, I know this going sound frustrating but how I set the variables?

 

[Tea++]

I don't know if you've seen this tutorial yet, but I hope it helps.

Spoiler: Switch Puzzle Turoial

 

[MushroomCake28]

Ok, I know this going sound frustrating but how I set the variables?

You know how to add content to an event page? If so, there's an a command which is named "Control Variables" in the Game progression section (page 1 of the event commands). Once you select it, a window will pop-out and from there it's really simple. Select the variable, set the operation to "set" and set the constant to the number you want.

 

[gearbox15]

I don't know if you've seen this tutorial yet, but I hope it helps.

Spoiler: Switch Puzzle Turoial

I think it worked thank you.

 

[gearbox15]

Ok a bit follow of up. Now that I have made the basic outline for the puzzle, there is one element I need to really complete it. I need to make a chest that only opens after the puzzle is solved. I needed to a locked chest, I know their places that tell you how to this but everything they goes over my head. I also need for the chest to unlock after puzzle is done.

 

[MushroomCake28]

Once the puzzle is cleared, activate a switch. Make it so in order to open the chest, the switch needs to be active (as a condition in a conditional branch, not as a condition for the event which is on the left side). You can even make another automatic event which appears once your switch is on to play a SE indicating that the chest is unlocked. Make sure to erase that event afterward tho.

 

[Shaz]

You could just play the SE in the same place where you turn on the switch when the puzzle is complete.

 

[MushroomCake28]

@Shaz True lol. Silly me, always thinking about how to complicate stuff.

Do that instead of my auto event for the SE lol, a lot better.

 

[gearbox15]

Ok so how you make a locked chest then?

 

[Shaz]

Use a chest quick event, then change the first page so what's there only gets executed if the switch is on.

To do that, go to the bottom of the first page of event commands and add a Conditional Branch to check if the puzzle complete switch is on. Select all the event commands that were auto-created, cut them (Control+X), then paste them into the True branch of the condition. Then in the False branch, just show a message to say the chest is locked.

It'll be something like this:

If Switch "Puzzle Complete" is ON
  ... these are the event commands that were auto-created in the Chest quick event
Else
  Text: The chest is locked.
End

 

[gearbox15]

It took bit fielding but puzzle now workes thank you!