A Paper Mario-Like Battle System.

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Hey-o!

I’m looking for suggestions on how I’d create a Paper Mario-esc battle system, as the title states. For those who don’t know. Paper Mario’s battle system is pretty similar to a normal RPG’s battle system, but has one major difference I’d like to recreate; the action commands, timed hits as they’re sometimes called. These action commands are done differently per attack, but I should probably start with the simplest one; pressing A just before the attack hits in order to do more damage.

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Thanks in advance! (And apologies if this is in the wrong forum-)

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I mean it doesnt sound like anything special, so just make it the same way you would make any time based input, using:

  • Timers
  • Input reading
  • Fire a condition based on the combination of the two, if timer and input is correct do more damange, otherwise do lesser amount

Id recommend having a stab at prototyping this first if you havent yet, you could probably knock a rough working version of this in under 30 mins.

What have you tried so far that worked / didnt work?

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