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## About The Pull Request Remakes Battle Arcade from just about the ground up, with exceptions taken for emagged stuff since I didn't really want to touch its behavior. The Battle Arcade now has stages that players can go through, unlocking a stage by beating 2 enemies and the boss of the previous one, but this must all be done in a row. You can choose to take a break between each battle and there's a good chance you'll sleep just fine but there's also a chance it can go wrong either through an ambush or robbery. The Inn lets you restore everything for 15 gold and you can buy a sword and armor, each level you unlock is a new sword and armor pair you can buy that's better than the last, it's 30 gold each but scales up as you progress through levels. They are really worth getting so it's best to try to not lose your money early in. The battle system is nearly the same as how it was before but I removed the poor combo system that plagued the old arcade as one big knowledge lock, now it's more just turn based. The game is built on permadeath so dying means you restart from the beginning, but if you are going to lose you can try to escape instead which costs you half of your gold. Getting to higher levels increases the difficulty of enemies but also increases the gaming exp rewards which could make this a better way to get exp if you can get good at it. Gaming EXP is used to increase chances of counterattacking but doesn't give any extra health to the player. I also removed the exploit of being able to screwdriver arcade cabinets because people would do that if they thought they were on the verge of losing to bypass the effects of loss. I instead replaced it with a new interaction that the Curator's display case key can be used to reset arcade cabinets (there's several keys on the chain so it made sense to me), which I added solely because I thought Curators would be the type of person to have run an actual arcade. This is some gameplay https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/53777086/499083f5-75cc-43b5-b457-017a012beede As a misc sidenote, I also split up the arcade file just like how Orion Trail was before, just for neat code organization. The Inn keeper is straight up just a photo of my localhost dude, he's not a player reference or anything it's not my actual character. I also have no idea how well balanced this is cause I suck at it lol. ## Why It's Good For The Game Battle Arcade is one of 3 last machines in my hackmd here to turn into TGUI https://hackmd.io/XLt5MoRvRxuhFbwtk4VAUA?view I've always thought the current version of battle arcade is quite lame and lacks any progression, like Orion Trail I thought that since I was moving this to TGUI, it would also be a perfect opportunity to revamp it and try to improve on where it failed before, especially since the alternative (NTOS Arcade) is also lame as hell and is even lamer than HTML battle arcade (spam mana, then spam health, then just spam attack, rinse and repeat). This will hopefully be more entertaining and give players sense that they are getting through a series of tasks rather than doing one same one again and again. ## Changelog 🆑 JohnFulpWillard, Zeek the Rat add: Battle Arcade has been completely overhauled in a new progression system, this time using TGUI. add: The Curator's keys can now reset arcade cabinets. balance: You now need to be literate to play arcade games, except for Mediborg's Amputation Adventure. fix: You can no longer screwdriver emagged arcade consoles. Accept your fate. fix: Silicons can no longer play Mediborg's Amputation Adventure. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Jeremiah <42397676+jlsnow301@users.noreply.github.com>
Asset cache system
Framework for managing browser assets (javascript,css,images,etc)
This manages getting the asset to the client without doing unneeded re-sends, as well as utilizing any configured cdns.
There are two frameworks for using this system:
Asset datum:
Make a datum in asset_list_items.dm with your browser assets for your thing.
Checkout asset_list.dm for the helper subclasses
The simple subclass will most likely be of use for most cases.
Call get_asset_datum() with the type of the datum you created to get your asset cache datum
Call .send(client|usr) on that datum to send the asset to the client. Depending on the asset transport this may or may not block.
Call .get_url_mappings() to get an associated list with the urls your assets can be found at.
Manual backend:
See the documentation for /datum/asset_transport for the backend api the asset datums utilize.
The global variable SSassets.transport contains the currently configured transport.
Notes:
Because byond browse() calls use non-blocking queues, if your code uses output() (which bypasses all of these queues) to invoke javascript functions you will need to first have the javascript announce to the server it has loaded before trying to invoke js functions.
To make your code work with any CDNs configured by the server, you must make sure assets are referenced from the url returned by get_url_mappings() or by asset_transport's get_asset_url(). (TGUI also has helpers for this.) If this can not be easily done, you can bypass the cdn using legacy assets, see the simple asset datum for details.
CSS files that use url() can be made to use the CDN without needing to rewrite all url() calls in code by using the namespaced helper datum. See the documentation for /datum/asset/simple/namespaced for details.