At 14.37 11/04/97 -0500, Lee Seitz wrote:
>Will the balls bounce off each each other (that would be neat, but would
probably cause
>flicker) or just go back and forth as a group?
In order to make them bounce off each other I should rewrite half of the
code and change much of data organisation (and there would be flicker), so
that won't be done.
>One thing I noticed was that there's no randomness to anything's
>starting position. This means the demo "finishes" the "first board"
>after a couple minutes, but then goes on for longer than I cared to
>watch on the "second board."
Yes, now the demo is absolutely deterministic. Isn't it amazing how things
go on without looping? :)
>Are you planning on adding any
>randomness, or will you depend on humans' inability to precisely
>repeat the same actions twice to do it for you?
There will be a lot of randomized parameters, it's just not an imporant
issue at the moment.
>I understand. I'll look forward to MP whenever you can get back to
>it. In the meantime, I'm really enjoying watching the evolution of
>this demo/game.
Thanks, the critical part will be player's control and I'll need feedback on
this.
Ciao,
P.
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