A stamina bar where the last swing is never refused, but exhaustion has a price

A bar that refuses an action when there is not quite enough left feels like the game cheated. A bar that never punishes an empty tank makes it meaningless. Here is how to let the last action through, make running dry hurt in a fair way, and when the bar starts to refill.

Why this works

People accept a limit they can see and predict, but resent one that seems to hold back what the bar shows. Letting the last action through keeps the bar honest, and the price moves to the empty state, where the pause and the lockout carry the cost.

When not to use it

Skip it in a game meant to be a puzzle of exact budgeting, where the player plans each action to the last point and an overdraw would spoil the plan. There, show the cost before the action and refuse it cleanly.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 4 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 34 lines of example code with 5 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

Say this to your AI

Use the Spielerando entry "A stamina bar where the last swing is never refused, but exhaustion has a price" (read_entry rpg-stamina-last-action-overdraw) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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