MZ Survival Options

[Zaha]

I was just starting to get into making my first practise game in MV when MZ came out, so thought I may as well jump into MZ and really like it so far. However, I'm still getting to grips with RPG maker in general, so I'm hoping someone may have some pointers for me regarding putting in survival elements into my game.

Specifically, I'd like to measure hunger and thirst over a day. I think I've come up with a very basic way of doing it. Each map will be my day cycle, and within each of these I'll have a couple of events that check if water of food has been consumed, and if not I'll knock off some HP.
Any thoughts on if the above would work? Also, anyone have any better ways of implementing survival elements in MZ?
Thanks for your time!

 

[Aerosys]

There are many many ways to do this. Depending on complexity you wish etc....

Avoid having events on every Map, and really don't do copy-paste. You can't change your eventing later without copy-pasting every event on every map. Instead, use Common Events.

Hunger and Thirst should be variables, starting from eg. 1000. The common event has a waiting command for eg. 10 secs and then reduces hunger and thirst by 1. If they reach 0, you die.

 

[Milennin]

It wouldn't be too difficult to make, but it requires some basic knowledge on how to use Variables. I'd suggest looking up a Variables tutorial.

 

[Zaha]

Great, thanks for the replies and pointers