2009-05-27, 10:07 PM
I dunno... it just seems like technically you can do some very sophisticated stuff with SoM events that the developers probably never imagined, and seemed to intentionally prevent you from doing elsewhere 
An alchemy system would be like mixing items. I'm generally just reporting stuff I'm doing with my own presentations... so I'll leave that exercise to the reader. I can tell you just doing the digestion setup is fairly complicated, so alchemy would be entire game in itself probably (dunno if you need something like that for Shadow Gate)
^If you did it this way, you'd want to have a special item, like the crystal flask be used to start a mixing sequence. Then items used afterward would go into the cocktail. Then you could have like a cork item or something to end the sequence. Better yet might be a pseudo-command item slot that starts and stops. The only problem I've experienced with this approach is SoM seems to list x1 after every item in your inventory, even if there is just one in the game, which is lame. The same x1 is used everywhere, so you can't just remove it from the exe, or you will have no way of knowing how much of anything there is
An alchemy system would be like mixing items. I'm generally just reporting stuff I'm doing with my own presentations... so I'll leave that exercise to the reader. I can tell you just doing the digestion setup is fairly complicated, so alchemy would be entire game in itself probably (dunno if you need something like that for Shadow Gate)
^If you did it this way, you'd want to have a special item, like the crystal flask be used to start a mixing sequence. Then items used afterward would go into the cocktail. Then you could have like a cork item or something to end the sequence. Better yet might be a pseudo-command item slot that starts and stops. The only problem I've experienced with this approach is SoM seems to list x1 after every item in your inventory, even if there is just one in the game, which is lame. The same x1 is used everywhere, so you can't just remove it from the exe, or you will have no way of knowing how much of anything there is