Just a little idea sharing. For a little Verge-related experiment I’ve been doing (and losing due to crashes) this last couple of days, I decided I needed to implement a state machine validating system.
Well… Tada!! Somehow ready, in C# (I just need to add a delegate to do something when entering the state, but that’s a kinda special case.
And with C# 3.0 lambda expressions, this should be a to use. So, this should also work quite easily in Python, now that I think of it.
//A nice state machine generic validator in C# public class State<T> { protected LinkedList<KeyValuePair<Predicate<T>, State<T>>> transitions { get; set; } public State() { this.transitions = new LinkedList<KeyValuePair<Predicate<T>, State<T>>>(); } protected virtual State<T> GetTransition(T t) { foreach (KeyValuePair<Predicate<T>, State<T>> trans in transitions) { if (trans.Key(t)) return trans.Value; } return null; } public virtual void AddTransition(Predicate<T> condition, State<T> state) { transitions.AddLast(new KeyValuePair<Predicate<T>, State<T>>(condition, state)); } public bool Process(IEnumerator<T> it) { State<T> current = this; while (it.MoveNext()) { current = current.GetTransition(it.Current); if (current is FinalState<T>) return true; } return false; } } public sealed class FinalState<T> : State<T> { public FinalState() { this.transitions = null; } public override void AddTransition(Predicate<T> cond, State<T> s) { throw new NotSupportedException("A final state cannot have transitions"); } protected override State<T> GetTransition(T t) { throw new NotSupportedException("A final state cannot have transitions"); } }
I halted the project for a while, you know? Kinda temporal thing, between a breakup, a lot of study and other things. And also, I discovered I was stumbling here and there with the game, and advanced some little things in the engine, but without a solid idea of the game. This week I started to draft the script for Aftershave, and from that, was born the idea for the intro.
Aftershave: Intro teaser
In a style that probably many of you will find familiar, a little teaser of the intro. Actually this is a half-mockup, the art corresponds to one of the screens, but it isn’t running in the engine yet. Someday later this week I’ll try to post some more screens, and maybe some fancy on-engine intro sequence.