‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎For this project, I had the opportunity to creating an expandable and customizable random event system. On the player side, players have a small chance to draw a random event every day. Some random events have choices, and require the player to choose between 2-4 options.

‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎Some random events can trigger other events, and they can be added into various random event pools. The ‘reactive’ and ‘weighted’ event pools have a higher chance to trigger than the regular events, and if there are priority events, they are guaranteed to trigger.

‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎I used Unity’s Event system to allow multiple effects of each choice and to manipulate the text for each event. Using the event system allowed for a more robust system that required less changes later on.

‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎I also used NaughtyAttributes by Denis Rizov to disable some inspector elements when unchecked, to make the inspector less confusing for designers making events in the future.

‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎‎Using a Random Event Manager, I designed a listener than looked for certain days of conditions in the game. When those conditions were met, the manager would draw from a preset event pool and add the event to it’s appropriate list based on designer’s request. 

The system has a few different layers going on. A random event is designated a type based on how it was created (i.e., 'reactive' type if created by an in-game event trigger), with each event type having different priorities. This way, we could mark certain events as priority and have them guaranteed appear instead of via chance. This also allowed us to use the system to implement our tutorial through the dialogue system.