Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Shields

[William K. <nb...@so...>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:20:44PM -0700, Samuel Hart wrote:
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> I think shields are important, otherwise the player only has 4 lives 
> (effectively).

Hehe... Actually, I wrote the game so that you could set the number
of cities (it's currently a #define).  I doubt we ever will, and more
than 6 on the screen would really be pushing it.


> 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.

Sounds good!


> 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).

Sure, that'd be good!  Don't make it too wide, though (see above about
being limited space-wise)


> 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.

I understand, except the part about "a few extra lines..."  Can you expl? :)


BTW, I just updated README.txt to flesh it out quite a bit.

Much still needs to be done, but if you get the chance, please read over
it and make sure I'm going in the right direction. :)

Thx!

-bill!