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Re: Designing a flexible items system

Saskia Bader — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:08:50 -0000

I really like this solution. I was thinking how I could do the item system for a browser game idea I have and the big problem for me was that items should have individual stats and I did not want to have many complicated table structures because it would be more confusing and also it would not be good for the games performance. thank you so much for this idea - I thought about all the complicated ways but yours is so easy with the second table for stats depending on item types. Thanks!!!

Re: Designing a flexible items system

Luke — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:52:29 -0000

Because it's only you(the developer) adding items, this isn't really an
issue - you just redefine your enum and go from there.

While this isn't the best way to lay out an items table(and future tutorials
will be doing it differently), it was the best at the time in terms of
allowing us to be flexible with our items and stats when we weren't sure how
our idea was going to grow and change.

Re: Designing a flexible items system

S Keilani — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:40:06 -0000

What happens when you enter an item type that is not on the list?

Its value will be left blank on the type column.

Re: Designing a flexible items system

Val — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:46:06 -0000

If you want to add more enums, you need to redefine the table using the MODIFY TABLE syntax.

Re: Designing a flexible items system

MrLollige — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:44:39 -0000

Enum looks good. But google cant tell me how to add a possible value.
For example, if I have a row:
type ENUM('Weapon','Armor','Usable'),
And I want to add 'Shines' and 'Tradeable' to it later on. How do I do that?

Re: Designing a flexible items system

Luke — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:24:40 -0000

Hi Sunchaser,

There aren't really any plans on building a quest system or a map-based movement system - but I'll do my best to research it and write something on it once I've figured out how to build one.

sepp: using an enum for item type is a great idea - thanks for pointing that out.

Re: Designing a flexible items system

Sunchaser — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:39:26 -0000

Nice article...

Do you plan to write some articles on a quest system editable by users or a system where players can move in a map?

Re: Designing a flexible items system

sepp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:52:16 -0000

For item.type I would use an enum.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/re...