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I'd make a locked and/or invisible field (or maybe a slider) somewhere to track the number of moves the player has remaining.

If you're displaying search results as a bunch of links in a field, you could make clicking a link count down the remaining moves by overriding the "link" event for the field. The default handler for link events is

on link x do
 go[x]
end

So you could instead give the field something like

on link x do
 moves.text:moves.text-1
 if moves.text=0
  go[theGameOverCard]
 else
  go[x]
 end
end

Side note: you can also write that conditional as:

go[if moves.text=0 theGameOverCard else x end]

This approach might be a little weird, though, since it ignores the user's final selection and surprises them with a game over.

If the cards you can get to via search have a "back" button, maybe it would make sense to test for game overs there, and navigate to the final card instead of the search page?

BenyDanette296 days ago

I'm using SearchEngine contraption, I'm not sure if I can "override" the links displayed in this prototype?

Internet Janitor296 days ago

You'd need to modify the contraption prototype, but it's a very simple change. In the SearchEngine the results are displayed in a rich-text field named "o". It doesn't currently contain any scripts and simply relies upon the default "on link" behavior.

The main thing to be aware of is that within a Contraption you won't auto-magically have cards and widgets of the deck in scope as variables; You do have access to "deck", though, so you can use fully-qualified paths to reach out to a specific widget. e.g. "deck.cards.theSearchCard.widgets.theSearchCounter", and if you use go[] you can refer to cards by name (as strings) instead of value (as cards).

I've tried to make all the contraptions in the bazaar as generic and reusable as possible, but don't be afraid of hacking them up or making changes to suit a specific application. In the worst case you can always delete the prototype and re-import the reference copy.

BenyDanette296 days ago

I think I'm close to the solution, but I don't understand why when I write "moves.text:moves.text-1" -> the field displays "-1" instead of doing a calculation...

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