Re: [Plib-devel] OT: new linux game

[Bram S. <br...@sa...>]

steve wrote:

> I'm not sure what you should do about it - maybe there is a key you can
> hit that causes a giant crane to swing over, pick you up and put you
> back at the last reset point.  It would be FUNCTIONALLY the same as a
> 'suicide/restart' thing - but without taking you out of the 'game
> world'.  It's a subtle distinction - but one that your players will
> appreciate.

Sound good.
 
> If you had the giant crane (or something) then the user could ASK for
> assistance when he needs it - because he knows better than your software
> does when he considers himself 'stuck'.

I think I'll make a rescue helicoptor instead :-)
 
> 
> It looked like maybe it was the size of my screen - but it was centered
> at (0,0) - so I could only see the bottom-left quarter or so of the
> screen.  I've never seen that happen before.
> 
> Which 'GLUT' are you using?  GLUT?  freeglut?  OpenGLUT?

Well.... that really depends on what you have installed on your
build machine.

On mine, I have freeglut.

> I've always hoped for that in my games too - but never, ever got a
> single usable level!

That's a pity, yes.

Well.... even game-ideas would be a valuable contribution.
I tried to think of other obstacles that would be similar to
the ones I have.
  
> Right - but there are lots of interesting things you could model
> like ramps and jumps and curving track sections - loops maybe.  But
> yeah - we'd need to get to the dynamic stuff too.

You're right... the static stuff can be interesting as well.


> Ah - so you have to hard-code the dynamics stuff?  That's not so nice!
> 
> Could it be abstracted in some way that could be read from a file?
> My recollection is that ODE uses a heirarchy not entirely unlike
> a scene graph - but with masses, moments of inertia, etc.

I guess something like that could be possible, although you
still have to account for joints and such. These are likely to
be hardcoded anyway.
 
> Do you have a mailing list for the game where we can take this
> discussion?

I guess that the bulletin board at this place could accomodate this:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/sturmbahnfahrer/

  Bram