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Guide to Game Development/Miscellaneous/In-game power sources and electricity

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The idea of this page is to anaylise what other develops have done well, and what they have not done so well (learn from their mistakes).

Minecraft Redstone

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Advantages Disadvantages I/O Things that could be improved
  • Complex - can do a variety of things, limitless possibilities
  • Logic gate implementation
    • This also teaches people
  • Confusing hard to pick-up
  • Takes up a lot of space inside the game
  • Logic gates:
    • You have to know how to make these logic gates

Input:

  • Buttons
  • Levers
  • Pressure Plates
  • Hoppers

Output:

  • Pistons/Sticky Pistons
  • Lamps/Lights
  • Dispencers
  • Droppers

Functional:

  • Repeaters (signal delays)
  • Torches (toggle boolean state)
  • Comparators (comparison of voltage levels)
  • Command blocks (runs in game commands)
  • Slime blocks (can move lumps of blocks)
  • Make the computer do the confusing parts to make it easier for users to pick up.
  • Should use PCBs and terminal blocks for IO
  • Make a compact logic gate chip rather than making it
  • Hopper should be swapped for pipes (multi-directional)

Minecraft computercraft mod

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Advantages Disadvantages I/O Things that could be improved
  • Good for programmer
  • Gets people into programming
  • Not good for non-programmers

Input:

  • Floppy disk to store programs

Output:

  • Screen
  • Write floppy disks

Functional:

  • Virtual computer with all of their inputs and outputs
  • Would be better to have two modes
    • Programmer mode
    • User interface mode - drag and drop
  • Put tutorials inside the computers

Minecraft redpower mod

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Advantages Disadvantages I/O Things that could be improved
  • Bundled cable:
    • Compact
    • lets the computer handle a little bit more
      • Less confusing
    • Allows for wire buses like a computer has
    • Can then split into individuals

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Output:

Functional:

Terraria multi-coloured wires

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Advantages Disadvantages I/O Things that could be improved
  • Compact
  • 3 colour wires
  • Simple easy - no tutorial needed
  • limited to only 3 wires.
  • There's no way to convert from one colour to another
  • Very basic, can't really do much.

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Garry's Mod

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Advantages Disadvantages I/O Things that could be improved
  • Simple
    • Click on one, then click on the other to join it up

Input:

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Garry's mode - wire mod

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