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Hi Tony

I have a design related question for you if you don't mind:

Situation: my character encounters an obstacle, such as a thicket of underbrush. This thicket was placed by an enemy, so if the character succeeds in either pushing through the thicket or evading it, I want to report the deed. However, I don't know what the best design for this sort of thing is. I'm not interacting with a UI element that lets me report a deed, and I'm not engaging with dialogue. I'm using game physics, basically.

One thought I had was just to use colliders on the obstacle and have the obstacle do the reporting. The advantage of this approach is that when I add other physics based deeds (e.g. solving a maze, lifting an object, etc) those objects can encapsulate the specifics of the deed rather than forcing me to add many different kinds of reporting scripts to my character.

Thoughts? Am I missing an important design consideration for these kinds of deeds? I believe that for deeds that do involve dialogue or the UI (such as the inventory UI) I can and should report the deed in the character code...

thanks!

You're exactly correct. You could add a tiny script to a trigger collider at the end of the thicket. In an OnTriggerEnter() method, report the deed by calling FactionManager.CommitDeed() or DeedReporter.ReportDeed(). Using a DeedReporter may be more convenient because you can define the attributes of the deed in the inspector ahead of time.

Do the same for a trigger at the end of the maze, or whenever the player swings a sword, or emotes an obscene gesture, or gives out flowers, or whatever gameplay action you want.

Thanks, Tony! Just so you know, your assets form the core of gameplay in my project and I couldn’t be happier

Thanks! I'm glad you're finding the assets helpful!