Hi Manuel!
> I just finished doing it this way.
Just in time for my birthday :)
> No you must first
> shoot a meteor in order to turn it into a diamond, then
> you must keep it centered on the crosshair until it's
> collected.
>
> In the current version you'll already see how your
> shield get's refilled and you get points for every
> diamond collected.
>
> It'd be nice to have some feedback wether this is good
> playable, but keep in mind that this is just intended to
> be a neat bonus scene gimmick, not a game on its own.
> :-)
I'm going to have to see if I can connect my CC again. I find it a little difficult to play in Z26 with the flicker.
Are the diamonds cycling? It seems that when I shot a meteor and miss the diamond, it will show up again. I think you might want to just get rid of it if the player doesn't pick it up. If not it gives the illusion that the universe is round. Wasn't there a theory about that?
> Hm... I'm not sure yet. At present I'd like to just skip
> back to the transition screen, after either a timer is
> expired or after a certain # of meteors has crossed the
> screen.
>
> I'm not sure yet which is the better way. Probably a
> timer is not as good as a meteor counter, since in
> higher stages you've probably no chance to collect
> anything at all during only a few seconds :-)
>
> And I don't no wether I'll add some warping sequence. I
> think I rather don't, because it was a real pain already
> to get the "crash" scene screwed into the current
> display kernel and I don't think I can handle a third
> branch easily enough to be worth the effort.
The meteor count sounds good. Having them fly until there are no more would make a nice transition.
Take care,
Dennis
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