Glenn,
I think the way it does it is a little wierd too, but I flat don't have
enough RAM left to deal with it. I don't mean I couldn't go back and flog a
few bytes out of it, I just don't want to restructure the game (again).
Anyway, other games have used the console switches in a different way.
Starmaster use the B/W switch to switch between screens, for example.
Your probably right about it needing to be changed a little bit. But, the
way the game figures out what to do and what not to do is pretty thoroughly
entwined with the various ways to select different game styles.
I hate to just cop out on a good suggestion like that, but I am really ready
for this game to be done :>
BTW, I am using BCD mode for the game select, so I am limited to 99. And
the total number of game variations is 80*2*2*2 = 640 variations.
Thanks for taking the time to look at it for me, I do appreciate it.
Regards,
Billy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-stella@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Glenn Saunders
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:10 AM
> To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [stella] Warring Worms Final Debug
>
>
> At 08:31 PM 2/7/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >Left difficulty: A=Fast B=Slow
> >Right difficulty: A=Hard (player can turn back on himself and die) B=Easy
> >(player can't turn back on himself)
> >Color = Enable Missiles B/W = Disable Missiles
>
> I don't think using the console switches like this is the right
> approach. It's not the standard way to do game variations, at
> least. Reserve difficulty switches for ONE rule so you can handicap one
> player over another. The way it is now, all rules are global to bother
> players. If players are of different skill levels, you can't even the
> playing field that way.
>
> You should do a game matrix on all the others.
>
> For every bit of rule to turn on or off, you will need twice as many game
> variations as you have now.
>
> As long as the requirements don't exceed 256, you shouldn't have any
> trouble encoding it into your game because you're probably reserving a
> whole byte of RAM for the game variation.
>
> Do it like Space Invaders and have it so that if you hold down select and
> reset at the same time, it cycles through the variations faster.
>
>
> Glenn Saunders - Producer - Cyberpunks Entertainment
> Personal homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1698
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