Re: [Trackballs-development] Re: todo

[Mathias B. <mb...@aa...>]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 21.25, D & E Radel wrote:

> But how would a networked trackballs work? Would
> it be a timed race against each other, or some other
> strategy?

I'm open to suggestions =) So far I have been thinking of three ways of 
playing multiplayer. 

1. "As normal". The players coexist on the level, count their score in the 
normal way and both have to finish the level (the second player have to exist 
through the same exit as the first one).

2. "Cooperative". When the first player exists a level both players can 
continue. It can then be possible to design special "cooperative" levels 
where eg. one player has to go somewhere to open up for the second player to 
reach the goal etc.

3. "Race". Play the game without counting lives, the first player to exit each 
level wins. 

I guess the specifics for the game type can be decided later, we probably want 
to allow for different kind of games. Though I first have to actually code 
the multiplayer sync. I have been looking at using some preexisting libraries 
for network games but will probably prefer to code it myself to better fit it 
into the preexisting structure of the game.

/ Mathias