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===== Role Block =====
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{{infobox>
name = Role Block
image1 = roleblock.png
Development lifespan = 2016
Initial release = 2016
Game Engine = Gamemaker 8.1
Developer = Mooshimity Ltd.
}}
<box 60% blue>**This is an article of one [[:brickhill|Brick Hill]] Development era. If you want to take a look on other development era, please refer to [[:developmenteras|Development Eras]] article.**</box>

**Role Block** is the earliest prototype of sandbox game [[:brickhill|Brick Hill]], originally released in Late 2016 by brick-luke on Mooshimity forums. Role Block had two releases.

==== Release features ====
  * No multiplayer
  * 2D release can be started via ''game_test'' only, because it's the only folder in game's release, though incompatible 3D release games can be played fine with this client.
  * 3D release can be started via ''game_luke'' only, because other games don't have the ''draw.txt'' file to be executed by the game's code.

==== Controls ====
  * W,A,S,D - Up, down, left, right.
  * Shfit - Crawl (3D Release exclusive).
  * Space - Exit the car.

==== Game folders ====
==== "game_test" ====
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''game_test'' is likely a technological demo for the engine, written by brick-luke.


==== "game_race" ====
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Ditto, except it was probably meant to be for car object testing.


==== "game_run" ====
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''game_run'' is about running from zombies while you have 5 lives.


==== "game_classic" ====
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''game_classic'' is likely a technological demo, too.


==== "game_luke" (3D release exclusive) ====
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''game_luke'', also known as Luke's Game is about running over random people with your car.

 ==== Example Game Structure ====
<code>
- game folder (eg: game_nut):
-- system_map (3d exclusive directory)
--- draw.txt
-
-- system_player
--- function.txt (can be empty)
--- player.png
-
- background_nut.png (defined in settings.txt file)
- gamemode.txt (creation event?)
- gui.txt (what to draw)
- settings.txt (game settings)
</code>

Script examples:

''gamemode.txt'':
<code>
while vehicle != 1
	{
	instance_create(room_get_width/2,room_get_height/2,system_vehicle)
	vehicle += 1
	}
</code>

''gui.txt'':
<code>
if (global.player_lives > 0)
	{
	draw_text(2,2,global.player_lives)
	}
</code>

''settings.txt'':
<code>
//Control Game Settings Here
global.player_walkspeed = 4
global.player_spawnpoint_x = room_width/2+random_range(-100,100)
global.player_spawnpoint_y = room_height/2+random_range(-100,100)
global.player_lives = 5
global.background = "background_race.png"
global.ai = ""
global.vehicle = "racecar"
</code>
 ==== 3D Release oddities ====

It seems like that the codebase of 3D Role Block release was the main codebase until the first full rewrite by brick-luke in 2017, because of how differently 3D initialization works. In Early 2017 Brick Hill workshop, the game's code creates ''obj_environment'' for environment initialization while also initializing GMNewton for physics capabilites. While the 3D Release of Role Block does it via system_player object.

Though the 3D Release requires the ''draw.txt'' file to create a ''system_brick'' object, it may be misinterpreted as a floor drawing procedure.
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Links:
  * [[https://archive.org/download/role-block-brick-hill/Role%20Block.zip|Role Block 2D Release, thanks to MemoryArchive for this release.]]
  * [[https://archive.org/download/role-block-3-d/Role%20Block%203D.zip|Role Block 3D Release, grabbed from blocky's Brick Hill client archive.]]