Re: [TuxKart-devel] Split screen multiplayer

[Charles G. <ch...@ve...>]

Steve Baker wrote:

> Ricardo Cruz wrote:
>
>>  Go ahead! I love multi player games!
>>
>>  Just want to say something about the controls. As Steve pointed in 
>> an article (sorry, don't have a link), in multi-players games keys 
>> should already be pre-configurated.
>>  I know this sounds like forcing the player, but it is better than 
>> the player setup the keys and then they don't work, without 
>> understanding why.
>
>
> It might be possible to come up with several different key mappings 
> that work and
> give the player the option to choose between them...but it's quite 
> hard to find
> mappings that work for more than a couple of players.
>
> One thing that complicates matters is that some international 
> keyboards have
> different restrictions from US keyboards - also, some 'unusual' 
> keyboards like
> the more costly ergonomic ones have different restrictions.
>
> This is a VERY nasty problem. 


Maybe just restrict to a max of 1 or 2 players per keyboard (KEY1 & 
KEY2) requiring joypads or other devices for extra players.  Then the 
preselection becomes a bit easier (right?) since there can only be two 
players on at once.

- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <ch...@ve...>