Re: [Super-tux-devel] Magic system

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

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:13 +0200, Ingo Ruhnke wrote:
> "Christopher A. Webber" <cr...@li...> writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> The problem with ammunition is that the time you collect it and the
> time you use it, are too far apart from each other. So you either have
> to be carefull about collecting all coins, which can easily get
> borning in case you don't need them or will end up running into
> situations where you need fireballs, but are in real throuble because
> you havn't collect coins in the beginning. So ammunition basically
> ends up frustrating the player most of the time, since the out come if
> you have enough or not, depends largly on that you know before hand
> what happens in a later part of the level.
> 
> The kind of ammunition that I do like however is 'short term ammo',
> ie. you collect a fireflower, get three very powerfull balls to shoot
> and once done with them, the power is gone, no way to 'refuel' it
> other by collect another fireflower, which should be rare of course.
> If one makes it impossible or at least very hard to keep the ammo, ie.
> by using the run-button for shooting, so that the player no matter
> what, will have used it up pretty quickly, one can make sure that the
> fireflower would only be a short term bonus, not something that you
> collect about large periods of time.
> 
> For example the fire and shooting abilites in Yoshi Island are done
> this way, eat a fruit and you get shooting power, but only for a
> handfull of shoots, problem while having such a fruit is that you are
> unable to eat enemies. So you get one 'weapon' while you lose another
> one, so one has to be carefull about what to eat in which situations.
> Since all fruits are used up pretty quickly one doesn't need to care
> about them much to keep them for later situations and such.
this seems like a much better way of doing things that a "magic system"
to me

Keir lawson