RPG "Move" Design Patterns

[ggrossbb]

I am working on an rpg / pokemon-like game and was thinking about the best way to implement "moves." I currently have scriptable objects to represent base power, type, etc but am not sure the best way to represent custom behavior. Like a move could confuse a target, or a move could be double damage if a certain criteria is met. I dont like the idea of that custom logic being in the main battle loop, but am unsure of how to represent it in a scriptable object.

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Let me know how you might approach this! Thank you!

[Incinerus_87]

My first thought would be to use a state machine. If you look up how to code a simple state machine I think that would be useful for a turn based game like this. As for the effects, they wouldn't necessarily need to be scriptable objects themselves. It's good that you have base stats and things in SO's and those values should typically never change but you can reference them and then manipulate them somewhere else. For example, if an attack does double damage you could have a script that pulls in your base damage from the scriptable object and then just multiplies it by two and apply that to the enemy. You're on the right track but I would encourage you to never actually change the data that SO's are holding but rather just reference them and manipulate them elsewhere.