Dying¶

Having an evil ego walking around is a good time to worry about dying.

Let’s make the ego die when the evil ego gets close. Add a script to the evilEgo. We can delete the changeState method (we don’t need it) and just use doit(). Furthermore, we can override init() in the evilEgo and set the script there. That looks like:

(instance evilEgo of Actor
    (properties
        view 1
        x 231
        y 131
        signal ignAct
        noun N_EVILEGO
        moveSpeed 30
        cycleSpeed 30
    )

    (method (init)
        (super init: &rest)
        (self setScript: evilEgoScript)
    )
)

(instance evilEgoScript of Script
    (properties)

    (method (doit)
        (super doit:)
    )
)

Now in our doit() method we need to see how close the evilEgo is to the player, and kill them if evilEgo is too close:

(instance evilEgoScript of Script
    (properties)

    (method (doit)
        (super doit:)
        (if (<= (client distanceTo: gEgo) 25)
            (Die)
        )
    )
)

Is it that easy? Yes it is! You can also pass a number to Die to indicate a death reason. This lets you customize your death screen. The default one in the template game is a little spartan, but you can open DeathRoom.sc and customize to your heart’s content when you’re more familiar with SCI.

What if there were a way to fight back?