Character Tracing/Tracking

[Dreamulex]

I would like to get an idea of how I would go about making a character location system that tells which where any of the characters in the given building are at along with moving them to a different room if needed. I'm having a hard time trying to think of what angle I should look at this from or where I should start. I know for a fact that I want to eventually make this more than 5 locations

[DannyGMaster]

Interesting... For starters, you could make a building class containing all of the rooms, each room being a list where you add people's names (or instances) as they come and go. Then you would make a screen to display the status of
each room.

Roughly it could be something like this:

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init python:

    class Building:

        def __init__(self):

            self.lobby = []
            self.bath = []
            self.my_room = []
            self.eileen_room = []

#This would be the screen, I know it's crude and lacks styling but it's just to demonstrate
screen building_status(building):

    frame:
        vbox:
            text "Lobby: [building.lobby]"

            text "Bath: [building.bath]" 

# Here we define the new building instance
default hotel = Building()

label start:

    show screen building_status(hotel)

    "Lily enters the lobby."

    $ hotel.lobby.append('Lily')

    "Bob enters the lobby."

    $ hotel.lobby.append('Bob')

    "[hotel.lobby[0]] and [hotel.lobby[1]] are in the Lobby."

    $ hotel.lobby.pop(1)

    "Bob leaves the lobby."

This is very primitive but hopefully it will give you an idea.