Re: [Super-tux-devel] Release Schedule/Milestones/GotM

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Hey,

 I don't think SuperTux should already be the Game of the Month, since the=
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leveleditor is not yet that fun to use...
 I mean, without a mouse interface it sucks to edit levels, since you have =
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know the right keys. Futhermore, the Help screen doesn't display all the=20
keys, since the fonts don't support some characters...

 The level editor supports selections=20
[http://rpmcruz.planetaclix.pt/trash/supertux.png] (i'll commit it when the=
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cvs is updated) and I think that with a mouse interface it would be pretty=
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trivial and fun to create levels.

 My idea for the interface is to have a panel in the right that would have =
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few buttons (maybe 10, so that there could be numerical key bindings). The=
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top/main buttons would be something like Background, Foreground, Bricks and=
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Enemies. When a category was chosen, the avaible tiles would be listed, a=20
long with a Plus button (to display more) and a Back one (to get to the top=
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level buttons).

 I think this would be enough for the GUI, there is no need to use a gui=20
library for the current level formats... Of course, with scripting and stuf=
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it would be necessary to have dialogs and stuff and maybe then a gui librar=
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could be used.

Just my 2 cents,
 Ricardo Cruz

Em Quarta, 11 de Fevereiro de 2004 17:40, o Ingo Ruhnke escreveu:
> Tobias Gl=E4=DFer <tob...@gm...> writes:
>
> > Only 10 levels? That's really damn less. With a leveleditor it should
> > be possible to "produce" at least 50 levels. ;)
>
> Depends on the output of the "Game of the Month" thing, if there are
> lots of people contributing good levels, there can be of course more,
> however something like 10 should be the target, if we get more than
> that, thats good, however if we get 10 that should be enough to
> release it. And anyway, 10 good levels are better than 50 sucky ones,
> more doesn't necesarrily mean its better (quantity vs quality). Just
> for the record SuperMarioBros and GianaSisters had both 'just' 32
> levels.

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