Re: [Super-tux-devel] Magic system

[Keir L. <ke...@th...>]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 07:37 -0500, Christopher A. Webber wrote:
> 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.
personally i think supertux should stick to mario-like behaviour

Keir Lawson