In the previous lesson we started implementing the Main Menu. In order to see what you were working on I provided a temporary “DemoFlow” method that connected together the various abilities of the menu into a sequence of tasks. In this lesson we will elaborate on the idea of a “Flow” as a reusable pattern – one which is an alternative to the StateMachine.
Month: June 2023
D20 RPG – Main Menu
Controlling a sequence of events over time can be tricky. This is particularly the case when there is a lot of state that can be changed from more than one path through your code. In this lesson we will see how task based asynchronous programming can approach this problem while creating a Main Menu scene.
Checking In
It has been a while since my last post, and you may need to wait a bit longer still. With the arrival of summer I have had a lot happen all at once, family moving, a wedding, vacation coming up etc. This is only a quick post so you all know I am still here and to give a quick preview of what is coming next…