Re: [Super-tux-devel] Multiplayer?

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:53:34PM -0500, C Ratchet wrote:
> I'm wondering if any thought has been put into making a multiplayer 
> mode for Super Tux. 
> 
> I can think of a few options: 
> 
> Cooperative mode - 2 or more players cooperate on the same screen (on 
> the same computer or thru a network) 

Very hard to make the levels work.  We'd need to carefully design all
levels and features to take 2-player coop mode into account. :^/


> Competition mode - 2 or more players race to finish levels 

Showing both players at once?  (e.g., split-screen)  May work.  Would be
kinda difficult. :^(


> Tux vs. Nolok (is Nolok the name picked for the enemy?) - One player 
> plays Tux, one plays Nolok and try to get each other. 

This would be a completely different game! :^)


What we may want to do, which you didn't really describe, is like
Super Mario Bros 1.  Each player takes a turn.  When they die, it's
the other player's turn.

(This is a pretty typically way of wedging two-player functionality into
a one-player game.  See also: Pac-Man, Galaga, Life Force, etc. ;^) )

-bill!