Allow link destination to be defined in rule instead of LEVELS section

[Draknek]

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I'm suggesting an optional argument to the link rules command

late [ Player links ] -> link
is the current implementation, and triggers the link, sending you to the level defined in the LEVELS section

late [ Player links ] -> link levelname
would trigger the link, sending you to the level called levelname even if the current level doesn't have any links defined in the LEVELS section

Use case: I made a game with PuzzleScript Next with lots of levels, many of which are quite hard. The ideal structure for this game would be a hub world which lets you play them in any order, but doing this in the LEVELS section would mean having 20 unique objects, which feels a bit unwieldy. Doing it in a rule would potentially be a bit simpler, i.e. I could put the level entrances in a line and do something like this:

right [ Level_A Player | Level_A | Level_A ] -> link A1
right [ Level_A | Level_A Player | Level_A ] -> link A2
right [ Level_A | Level_A | Level_A Player ] -> link A3

right [ Level_B Player | Level_B | Level_B | Level_B ] -> link B1
right [ Level_B | Level_B Player | Level_B | Level_B ] -> link B2
right [ Level_B | Level_B | Level_B Player | Level_B ] -> link B3
right [ Level_B | Level_B | Level_B | Level_B Player ] -> link B4

[david-pfx]

Nice idea. I actually started out going in this direction, but switched tracks to avoid having a rule for each possible level. Having both looks (a) useful and (b) easy.😁

[rolopogo]

Would goto not work for this situation?

author rolopogo
homepage www.polyomino.com

// 

smoothscreen 5x5
animate_interval 0.25

========
OBJECTS
========

Background 
black

Player; #00f8
Crate; orange
level_a;red

=======
LEGEND
=======

. = Background
A = level_a
P = Player
* = Crate

=======
SOUNDS
=======


================
COLLISIONLAYERS
================

Background
level_a
Player
Crate

======
RULES
======

right [ Level_A Player | Level_A | Level_A ] -> goto A1
right [ Level_A | Level_A Player | Level_A ] -> goto A2
right [ Level_A | Level_A | Level_A Player ] -> goto A3

==============
WINCONDITIONS
==============


=======
LEVELS
=======
section hub
.AAA.
.....
..p..
.....
.....


section A1
.....
.AAA.
..p..
.....
.....

section A2
.....
.....
..p..
.AAA.
.....

section A3
.....
.....
..p..
.....
.AAA.```