Puzzle similar to the "Great Glacier" from FF7

[Nephilium]

Hello!

First of all, I'm using MV, and I've included a picture of the puzzle, and a link at the bottom to the puzzle in action. (Puzzle starts at about 1:00 in).

I thought this would be a fun puzzle to attempt, but I'm having trouble. I have a couple ways in my head on how I want to try and make this work, but I don't know which one would be the best/most optimal way of doing it.

Another problem I've been having is getting the character to jump. The first jump from the starting point onto the first stone is no problem. It's after the player lands and needs to choose another direction to jump. I've tried using conditional branches with "Button press" such as Up, Right, Left, etc to play a movement route in that direction, but it's not working.

Any help in trying to figure out how I can pull this off would be awesome!

 

[Ami]

Simple Answer: Switch

 

[slimmmeiske2]

I've moved this thread to MV Support. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[Candacis]

Without looking in it too deep, 2 plugins that might help you:

MV Puzzle Functions

FEATURES This plugin adds some functions to use that may help with eventing puzzles and/or quests. 1. Self-switch flipping Change self switches for any event from any event Change self switches for…

galvs-scripts.com

MV Move Route Extras

FEATURES This plugin adds script commands you can use in ‘Move Routes’ that enable you to do extra things during autonomous and forced movement such as: – jump forward x spaces &#…

galvs-scripts.com

 

[EthanFox]

Any help in trying to figure out how I can pull this off would be awesome!

Someone more expert than me will come along soon, I'm sure - but I'll see if I can help.

Firstly, I would create each stepping-stone as its own event. Each of these events would have 2 pages; one for traversable, one for not-traversable.

The way I would want to do it, from my persective, would be to have each of the stepping-stone events trigger something which controls the others, and changes their state. This is how I would do it in some other engines. However, in RPG Maker, it's generally not good practice to have events-driving-events; you try to have one major event in the scene which drives all others, as well as responding to inputs. We'll call this the "puzzle manager event".

So the only things the stepping-stones would do would be to change state when requested (according to a unique switch for each stone) and, when you land on a new stone, they would change a switch to ON, which would activate an autorun page on the "puzzle manager" (this page would turn the switch off at the end of the page, so it only runs once each time you touch a stone).

Then, all of the logic - i.e. which stones to turn on/off - would go in the puzzle manager, not on the stones themselves.

You'd also need to come up with a good naming convention for the stones, maybe stone_row_column, e.g. stone_5_2, stone_6_4 - and personally, I would also draw this out on a piece of paper to have adjacent to your screen.

Then, you would write a series of IF... THEN statements. Basically, for every single stone, you need to write what happens if the user lands on it. Probably best to start off with the "correct" route, then do everything else.

If you want more info about that last part, you should look up programming solutions to the "Lights Out" problem (Lights Out is a handheld game that was made by Tiger Electronics in the 80s where you pressed buttons to do a similar puzzle; if you check it out, you might find some cool ways to make the scripting simpler).

Hope this helps!