Implementing Pokemon style system

Hey everyone, looking for some ideas / advice.

Basically what I am trying to do is make a combat system based off of Pokemon and I'm trying to think of the best way to implement it.

Right now each Pokemon species is going to be it's own class, and they will have an array to store the total number of moves. Using this each move would be an object, and that object's class would store the power, pp, element, name, and accuracy.

The problem I see with this is I will easily reach a large number of classes containing only a few lines of code just setting the values for the variables in each move.

I'm sure there is an easier way about this but I'm drawing a blank.

 

You might want to look at ScriptableObjects. Make a base move as a container for name, stats, moves, etc.

 

You only need one class for all the moves. And I would also store them in a serializable list so you can save it to disk.

All you need to do is decide how to determine which moves a pokemon can learn.

Code (CSharp):

1. // This class is nothing more then a model and
2. // can be serialized. That way you can just save
3. // the entire move store in some serialized
4. // data file on disk.
5. [Serializable]
6. public class Move
7. {
8.     string name;
9.     string maxPP;
10.     string power;
11.     string accuracy;
12.     // etc.
13. }
14.  
15. // This is the data store of the entire moveset.
16. // Add moves by adding this object to a gameObject,
17. // and make sure you have a save and load script so
18. // you can save and load a serialized object to disk.
19. [Serializable]
20. public class MoveStore
21. {
22.     public List<Move> moves;
23. }

 

Thank you very much for this. It makes a lot more sense, and I'm not sure why I was thinking every move needs its own class.

 

Don't worry about that. I make that type if mistake myself often enough