Would this work ? (death spawning)

[guo]

I want to have a slightly alternative levelling system in my game. Basically, you level up as normal but the only stats affected in this way are level-mp and your magic/willpower stats. Levelling of physical attributes (HP, Attack, Defence etc) is done by items and scripting.

One of the features I want to implement is different awards based on how you dealt with an enemy. For example, if you kill an enemy with a physical attack you have a chance to get an item that allows you to increase those attributes, whereas if you kill an enemy using a magical attack you get some standard XP.

Would it work if I used "on death" spawn functions? "On death (non-elemental)" for physical attacks and "On death" for all others (ie those with elemental bits)? Any flaws or problems I'm not thinking of here?

Regards.

[Bob the Hamster]

That should work fine.

Sounds like a good leveling system

[guo]

Thanks Bob. I've been testing it a little, and it seems that even if I kill an enemy with a non-elemental attack I am still getting the standard "on death" spawn reward.

[splendidland]

One thing I've implemented in my own game is different sprites for when enemies die, done with a self inflicting transforming attack that activates on death, and because that involves turning them into a new enemy, it means each possible death animation can have its own rewards, as well as giving them unique captions like "(enemy) was destroyed!".