Re: [Super-tux-devel] Multiplayer?

[C R. <zra...@mi...>]

OK...

wasn't there a cooperative mode in some Mario games?

I know this would be new, but it is something to consider and just 
wanted some feedback ;)

Ratchet

On Apr 25, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:

> 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!
>
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