Hi everyone,

Considering that checkpoints don't save the game, I would very much like to add permadeath to my levels (well, some of them.)
Would it be hard to make or simple like replacing a zero by one?

Thanks in advance

I'm not sure it was very clear

If the player dies before a checkpoint, he respawns at the Player Start marker, but what do I have to do in order to make him not just respawn but restart the level?
Or, Which files work with the player start marker (outside the FPE in the entity folder) so I can take a look at them?

I guess with lua you could spawn a winzone at the players position on death and then set it to reload the same level, then delete the winzone when restarted.

I have never used this but there is a

JumpToLevel(levelname) command.
(Ends the level and loads the level defined by (levelname))


Maybe something like

If player health =0 and checkpoint = 0 then
JumpToLevel(levelname)

just put the name of your map in the levelname in the command.
see how it goes...

Doesn't it do this automatically when you are running a standalone?
It should anyway, I know test game doesn't but that's because its test mode.
Just set lives to 0 and play the standalone game should be all you need.

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It doesn't actually, it's even worse than this. I played Dvader's standalone and the number of lives don't even count. Even with zero lives you respawn at the last checkpoint... It's awful (not Dvader's standalone, I mean the dying system.)
It's weird, since GG is out, there's not many standalone available. Do people get tired of little things called... inconveniences?

I'm doing my best with a few knowledge to make a game I could share here... The little bugs during the build are not that bad - though sometimes frustrating - we can go around one way or the other, that doesn't kill the experience, but having a game where dying has no point because you respawn with the same guns, same door opened, same AI killed... There's no challenge at all or there is too much if you die and respawn with the last two bullets in the level and the AI still shooting...

Tarkus and Perelect:

I can't find how to modify it. I've searched everyfiles in GG and I have no clue which ones are related to the player's death and such.

(Maybe I can have windows send an error message that reboots the game once you died. Hey, a windows error system, that's easy to make!)

Thats because dvader standalone is compiled with an old version of GG. In the newest GG version it works. I test it myself.

Corno:

Really?
Then I will try my level to be reassured.

But, does this mean there're a very few people who've shared their work yet?