Question

So, I have a player class with basic actions. During the gameplay he unlocks new abilities. I don’t know how to store new actions within the player class. To be precise – I know how, but my method is too messy and i want to clean up code. Also, I want to add to the enemies some of those abilities. In other words, every game entity(expect walls, perhaps :D) should have a collection to which i can add methods that extend entity functionality. How do i make this? Sorry, if my question is too abstact

Answer 1

Create an action dictionary:

public Dictionary<string,Action> NameActionDic = new Dictionary<string,Action>();

Then you can populate it like this:

player.NameActionDic["jump"] = ()=>{ player.velocity.Y -= 5; };

And use like this:

if (KeyboardButtonPressed(Keys.ArrowUp))  // this is just an example
    player.NameActionDic["jump"]();

Just put the population code somewhere on the outskirts (separate void method, maybe player’s constructor), or it will interfere with your edit and continue ability, because it’s a lambda expression.