Add More Assets:Collections

Drawers. Windows. Statues.

Collection provides a way to perform some verbs on a specific group of related objects. In the example below, a Desk has three Drawers. Each drawer can be open or closed. A player might input something like examine drawers. Normally, that would lead to a disambiguation prompt such as Which did $(we) mean? 1. The top drawer, 2. the middle drawer, or 3. the bottom drawer? Here, we've made a collection for the three drawers lets players refer to the three drawers as one object.

MyGame.createAsset({
  class: "Desk",
  name: "desk",
  place: { in: "Office" },
  descriptions: { 
    look: function()
    { 
      return "It's a heavy wooden desk. It has three drawers 
      stacked vertically. The top drawer is $( top drawer is| open or| closed ), 
      the middle drawer is $( middle drawer is| open or| closed ), 
      and the bottom drawer is $( bottom drawer is| open or| closed )." 
    }, 
  },
  adjectives: "wooden, heavy",
});
MyGame.createAsset({
  class: "Drawer",
  name: "top drawer",
  synonyms: "top desk drawer, top drawer lock, lock",
  descriptions: { look: "The top drawer is $( top drawer is| open or| closed ). ", },
  adjectives: "desk",
  place: { attached: "desk" },
  dov: { unlock: { with_assets: ['tiny brass key'], }, },
  is: { locked: true, listed_in_parent: false },
});
MyGame.createAsset({
  class: "Drawer",
  name: "middle drawer",
  synonyms: "middle desk drawer",
  descriptions: { look: "The middle drawer is $( middle drawer is| open or| closed ). ", },
  adjectives: "desk",
  place: { attached: "desk" },
  is: { listed_in_parent: false },
});
MyGame.createAsset({
  class: "Drawer",
  name: "bottom drawer",
  synonyms: "bottom desk drawer",
  descriptions: { look: "The bottom drawer is $( bottom drawer is| open or| closed ). ", },
  adjectives: "desk",
  place: { attached: "desk" },
  is: { listed_in_parent: false },
});
MyGame.createAsset({
  class: "Collection",
  name: "desk drawers",
  place: { attached: "desk" },
  collection: "top drawer, middle drawer, bottom drawer",
  synonyms: [ "drawers", "three drawers" ],
  is: { listed_in_parent: false },
  descriptions: { 
    look: function()
    {
      var openCount = [];
      var closedCount = [];
      var complicatedMsg = "The desk has three drawers stacked vertically. "; 
      MyGame.$("top drawer").is.closed ?
        closedCount.push( "top drawer" ) : openCount.push( "top drawer" );
      MyGame.$("middle drawer").is.closed ?
        closedCount.push( "middle drawer" ) : openCount.push( "middle drawer" );
      MyGame.$("bottom drawer").is.closed ?
        closedCount.push( "bottom drawer" ) : openCount.push( "bottom drawer" );
  
      if( 0 === openCount.length ) 
      {
        complicatedMsg += "All three are closed.";
      } 
      else if( 0 === closedCount.length ) 
      {
        complicatedMsg += "All three are open.";
      } 
      else if ( 2 == openCount.length ) 
      {
        complicatedMsg += "The "
        + openCount[ 0 ]
        + " and the "
        + openCount[ 1 ]
        + " are open. The "
        + closedCount[ 0 ]
        + " is closed. ";
      } 
      else if ( 2 == closedCount.length ) 
      {
        complicatedMsg += "The "
        + closedCount[ 0 ]
        + " and the "
        + closedCount[ 1 ]
        + " are closed. The "
        + openCount[ 0 ]
        + " is open. ";
      }
      return complicatedMsg
    }, 
  },
});

In the "desk drawers" Collection, take special note of these lines:

  name: "desk drawers",
  synonyms: [ "drawers", "three drawers" ],
  collection: "top drawer, middle drawer, bottom drawer",
  place: { attached: "desk" },
  is: { listed_in_parent: false },