Can you add cheats to your game?

[computerbynar]

I think i'd use a gui text field, but what is the code i'd use?

[Ishmael]

What about if you read the manual part about the String functions? And, type in the search "InputBox" and you'll be a bit wiser, methinks.

[Hollister Man]

A cheat is really only usually a "feature" used by the developers to make the game easier to test.  It becomes a cheat when they leave it in and a consumer or player finds out about it.

So it shouldn't be too hard to do, just program it like it were a "feature."

[Mr Flibble]

You could alter the debug keycodes in the global script to make your cheats less obvious.
Obviously using the ASCII cose, you could change things from
Keycode == (blah) )= Change room // crt+ x
to
Keycode == (blah) )= Change room // crt+alt+s

or something.
Or add a new script function like
KeyPress(blah)
Return all health

Sorry I don't know it exactly.

[Akumayo]

I'm using "cheats" in the game I am developing right now.  I use an input box.  Anyway, here is the exact code for cheats:

--------------------------------------------------------------------

string buffer;
InputBox ("Please enter a password", buffer);

if (StrComp (buffer, GetTranslation ("cheat 1"))==0) {
Cheat 1's script
}

else if (StrComp (buffer, GetTranslation ("cheat 2"))==0) {
Cheat 2's script
}

else if (StrComp (buffer, GetTranslation ("cheat 3"))==0) {
Cheat 3's script


-----------------------------------------------------------------


Perhaps after the player beats the game, a text box appears that says: "In the password box, enter these words for cheats, cheat 1, cheat 2, cheat 3

At the title screen, have a button that when clicked runs the cheat script above.

Luck

[Hollister Man]

So its more like the "cheats" feature in Neversoft's games like Tony Hawk and Spiderman, yes?

[Ishmael]

You can do it any way you want. One of my games has a feature that you can turn on debug mode with a key combination. You can use key combinations, secret rooms where you can pick what to do, input boxes, 1 pixel hotspots to click on to activate a cheat... what ever you can make.

[Akumayo]

Hollister man:

Yes, just like in those games.  Only, in my game, you can find some cheats by means of secret passages, etc.  When you beat the game you can get cheats like: increase speed, slowdown enemies, get 1000 points, wear red suit, be snake, etc.  You gave me an idea though, mabye you can use your score to buy new cheats like in Tony Hawk Underground.  

[Cpt Ezz]

i was think you could use a input box and use some code to make it do things if you type in the right thing.
just like in age of empires!!!!

[Khris]

You mean like Akumayo explained a few posts up five years ago?

[Dualnames]

You mean like Akumayo explained a few posts up five years ago?

I thought Akumayo was back, then was little disappointed. I recall me and Ashen made a console(Quake styled one).