Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Shields

[Samuel H. <cri...@ge...>]

On Monday 27 August 2001  2:55pm, William Kendrick wrote:
> Sam's Faux screenshot showed shields over some cities.
>
> How should this be implemented in the game play?
> All I can think of is, perhaps, each city starts with a shield
> (so that they can be hit once before being destroyed by a 2nd hit)
>
> Any ideas?  Should I just forget about them?

I think shields are important, otherwise the player only has 4 lives 
(effectively).

Also, I have been trying to figure out other ways to include Tux in the game 
(he's supposed to be staring in it ;-) One thing I have come up with is as an 
alternative to the spire I submitted before, perhaps we could have an overlay 
along the bottom of the screen that had a control center. In the center of 
this control center, Tux could be sitting manning the controls for the 
lazer/missle/whatever that is used to blast down the UFOs/comets.

If you're interested, I can draw something up for it tonite, and probably get 
the graphics done by tomorrow (I can even animate Tux pushing buttons).

What I'm suggesting would essentially replace the spire I already made (which 
I didn't like anyway) and then add a few extra lines of this image at the 
bottom of the rest of the screen.

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