Using lockable exits

Creating the exit

You can create an exit which is impassable until something else happens in your game. This could be a locked door, or perhaps something like a guard blocking the way.

Let's create a locked door in the kitchen, leading to a back garden. Create the following three elements:

• a new room, "garden"
• an object in the kitchen, "door"
• an exit leading south from the kitchen to the garden

Tick the "Locked" box on the Exit editor. You should see a warning message that we need to give the exit a name. This is because, to unlock the exit during the game, we will need to use a script command. The script command will need some way of referring to this particular exit, which is why we need to give it a name here. Call it something like "garden exit".

Unlocking the exit with a script

Go to the door object, and on the Verbs tab add a verb "unlock". Set it to "Run a script", and then add a command to print a message (such as "You unlock you door"). Add an "unlock exit" command, and choose "garden exit" from the list.

Run the game and verify that the exit now works correctly:

> south
That way is locked.

> unlock door
You unlock the door.

> south
You are in a garden.
You can go north.

Tutorial Beginners Introduction Creating a simple game Interacting with objects Intermediate Using scripts Custom attributes Custom commands More things to do with objects Using containers Moving objects during the game Advanced Using timers and turn scripts Changing templates Text formatting Using lockable exits Using lockable containers Using walkthroughs Multiple choices - using a "switch" script Debugging your game Releasing your game Elite Creating functions which return a value Using inherited types Using libraries Using Javascript