Modules and scenes

The scene table

scenes[22] (game.cpp, 0x4a26e8) maps a scene number to its Scene {open, close, frame, key}. currentScene is the running one (-1 before the first), pendingScene the next. The map's hotspots (picker.cpp:pickHotspot) are what send the player to a puzzle.

How the table was established: the player-facing names are the strings of placeNames (picker.cpp), which pickHotspot maps to scene numbers (hotspots 2-4 → 7-9, 6-11 → 10-15, 13-15 → 16-18, 5/12/16 → the camps and the town, 1 → the isle). Which module is which puzzle comes from the archive each opens and from its backdrop and its sound set (scenes 16-18 share a sound-pool set, and 13/12 share another). Module names that don't match the puzzle (net, roster, game, maze, picker) are named after the strings that identified the module, not the puzzle it contains.

The module town holds scene 0 (the intro) as well as scene 6; picker holds the map, the two hidden mini-games, and the practice-mode machinery; game holds WinMain and the Mirror Machine; roster holds the saved-game code and the Lion's Lair; isle was split from net by its data. Scene numbers 19-21 are reached only by typing a cheat code on the map.

Group structure of the journey

Groups 2 and 3 are alternatives chosen at Shelter Rock (its two set-out buttons go to scenes 10 and 13); finishing either opens Shade Tree. (Taken from each scene's sceneDue assignments and enterNextScene, which records puzzleLeft when the last puzzle of a group sends the party to a camp. The town's monument texts, featTexts, are written per group and level.) Each group has four levels (sceneLevel() 1-4).

The 42 game modules

The OS layer (os_fixed … os_contexts) and the engine's 149 modules are described in OS layer, timers and audio, Graphics, Memory and resources and The engine's modules.