Disney Infinity Originals Guide Game Creation and Logic Toys
Racing Gate Kit
The last kit that Quorra shows you is the racing gate kit. When you ask her about it, not only does the kit appear in the Toy Box World, but also a large area where you can set up a race.
The racing gate kit lets you create a race game without the limitations of the race track creator or using race track pieces. In fact, you can make a race anywhere.
The challenge maker is the starting place for this game. When a player steps on it, this begins the game. The ready up checker toy waits for all the players in the Toy Box World to join the game before the race starts. Because up to four players can play this game, there are four counters—one for each player. These keep track of the number of laps the players complete. In this case, when a player has completed three laps and moves through the last racing gate, the counter sends a message to the challenge maker to record the player’s time and finish the race for that player. It also sends a message to the ready up checker to hold the player at the end of the race until all of the other players finish.
Because up to four players can participate in this game, the kit includes four counter toys to keep track of laps in the race.
When the race begins, the challenge maker deactivates all of the racing gates except for the first racing gate. The challenge maker also sends a message to the timer to start timing. As each player moves through the first racing gate, it deactivates—just for that player—and then sends a message to the next racing gate to activate—once again just for that player. This ensures that each player has to go through all of the racing gates in order so no one can cheat.
The racing gates are connected to each other so as one deactivates, the next activates. Each player has only one active racing gate at a time.
The counters keep track of the laps. Once all players have completed the race, and the counters have all sent a finished message to the challenge maker, this toy then ends the race and displays the results. It also sends messages to the other toys to reset so they are ready for the next game.
When the game begins, just the first racing gate is activated. After you run through it, the next racing gate activates and this one deactivates.
Try out this game with just your one character to see how it works. The racing gates are all positioned close by. When designing such a game, keep all the toys close by while you make connections. Test it out to make sure it works. Then you can move the racing gates around the course. Otherwise it is difficult to connect all the gates if they are scattered about the Toy Box World.
