Welcome to the Placerville Pony Express Cartridge!


Background
This historical cartridge casts the player as a Pony Express rider in Placerville during the 1860s. Placerville was the western terminus of a Pony Express lane before riders would cross the Sierra Nevadas. 

The Pony Express was a mail delivery service that was truly unique and different from the systems that came before. Instead of using stagecoaches, the Pony Express hired mounted riders to deliver the mail faster and more efficiently. The speed and courage of the riders was admired by all. When they arrived in town, Pony Express riders were greeted with the utmost enthusiasm and respect.


Playing Experience
In this cartridge, you play the role of a Pony Express rider delivering mail to people in Placerville in the 1860s. Created as an educational tool, this cartridge offers a great challenge for kids and gives them an opportunity to use group work to figure out the puzzles.


Technical Tips
This cartridge has quite a few interactions between different items. To avoid confusion and potential bugs in the cartridge, it is important for a builder to hide commands after they are no longer needed. Remember that commands that are associated with characters and items will remain visible as long as their parent objects are. Therefore, a command 'Give' on a 'Package' item should be hidden after the player performs the 'Give' action.

In the Wherigo Builder pseudocode, hiding a 'Give' command after a package has been given to the Bank Teller looks like this:

Object: Bank Teller
Event: When Give occurs

If target is zitemPackage
    zcharacterBankTeller.Give enabled false
end

This removes 'Give' from the list of potential interactions with the bank teller. 

For a detailed walkthrough, check out the "Hide Commands" video in Level Two of the online Wherigo Builder tutorial. (www.wherigo.com/tutorial/index.html)


Inputs
While we prefer that Wherigo is played outside, we also believe that these cartridges serve as helpful sources for learning how to create your own experiences. The inputs below will allow you to complete the experience using the Wherigo Builder emulator.

- 1.72 MPH
- 9000
- 1860
- John McFarland Pearson
- 95667