[Super-tux-devel] Magic system

[Christopher A. W. <cr...@li...>]

Okay, I spent quite a bit of thinking on this over the weekend.  Ingo
made a comment to me that he thinks the fireflower and such should be
replaced with various types of magic.  I generally think this is a good
idea.
To encourage laziness, and for overall neatness, I have another idea to
add to this: Tux should use scepters (sort of like a cross between wands
and staffs) for various magical abilities.  This will make it so that we
only have to make a few images of him holding the staffs in various
forms, and then draw multiple forms of the staff over them.
Ingo and I also had a huge clash over this idea... I thought that tux
should have a magic meter that would be refilled by collecting coins,
and used up by firing fireballs and such.  To add a bit of strategy to
the game, you know? Ingo absolutely hates this idea, but I think it is
great.  Perhaps I could squeeze it in as an option then :)
However, Ingo did come up with an alternate solution... one that I think
is quite good (and that I think should not replace but just be included
along with my idea ;)  Basically, it would entail that switching to
other magic "types" (I.e. from fire to ice) will "puish" the player,
like it does in r-type and some other games, as you have to "build up"
each type of magic.  Say for example that first when you grab the ice
power you get only an ice sword, which can simply bash enemies and
freeze them.  However, when you grab the ice power again, you get the
ice scepter, which allows you to shoot ice spells.  But if you went and
grabbed the fire power, you'd be stuck with just a fire sword once
again.
I dunno, I'm just throwing ideas out into the open!  What do you guys
think?  I plan on posting up some sketches soon on this.

Christopher Allan Webber


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