Finally an Update on the Quest System

So, after taking a break from the engine work (due to classes, personal life, etc), I've finally made some substantial progress on the Quest System. The basics of the quest system is as follows:

• Objective - Represents some objective object for a quest. An objective, in short, is more like a single action quest. However, using extensions, a Quest can hold objectives that are really more quests, which allows for powerful and strong chaining. Each objective has its actual objective control, the reward for completing the objective, whether it is completed or not, and whether it is "required or not" (used for larger quests).

• Quest - This is a sub-class of an objective. This represents the actual container used for a quest. This stores a series of Objectives, keeping track of their state. Whether the quest is completed or not is determined by whether or not all of the internal objectives are completed, as well as any overhead the Quest itself requires.

• Reward - This represents the reward object for the quest. This can be customized into storing anything, which is useful for any type of game.

• ObjectiveControl - This represents what is used to actually check if an objective is complete or not. This is a control which is dependent on the actual state of the system in the game. Each Objective has an ObjectiveControl, which itself monitors the state of the game system, characters, etc to distinguish if the Objective has been completed or not.

Right now, I'm working on building a simple system that generates quests using these, based on the parameters of a simulation. The simulation will be a simple 2D world, in which stick figures will move over the land, altering it in some way. Based on the state of the simulation (allocation of resources, number of people / mobs, etc), quests will be generated. A list will contain the quests available and from it, a user can take a quest at a time and "complete" the quest, allowing them to see how the simulation progresses. Once the core system has been built and verified, I will move on to seeing what it can be used for in more classical games.