Tutorial - Random bonus item drops and flash banner messages

[Minilop]

A bit of a different tutorial today, rather than focusing on enemy sprite events here's a method for adding random item bonus drops...and flashy banner messages in your MPAGD games.





This is something I first wrote for Cocoa and the Time Machine and then improved in 24 Hour Parsley People.





What I wanted to achieve was...



Player has defeated an enemy



Randomly drop a bonus item (selected from 4 potential bonuses, weighted so that more powerful bonuses drop more rarely)



Player collects bonus item



Bonus item awards energy/points/whatever



Banner flashes on screen



Here's the tutorial with videos and fully commented code

[Packobilly]

I have no words. This is spectacular!!
Thanks a lot!

[Minilop]

No problem, hope you are enjoying the tutorials, I'm slowly working my way through my old code, commenting it and making it generic enough that other people could easily use and adapt them.