NiroZ wrote:
The new Minimap click to zoom thing (room select screen) is cool, but it's a bit unintuitive. Hitting F6, ideally, should bring up the demo menu for that room, rather than taking you to the room select screen.
Thanks for your suggestions. I'm a bit confused by your terminology, though, and need some clarification. When you say "
room select screen"
, do you mean the pop-up map of the level? Would you elaborate on what you're saying about F6?
Speaking of which, I think the room select screen should only be returned to when you brought it up in the first place,
So...you mean that if you click on a room in the small minimap to show that room temporarily, that after dismissing that room, the view shouldn't revert to showing the pop-up level map? How should the pop-up level map appear at all then? Only by clicking on background space on the small minimap? What if there is no empty space because the entire visible area is filled with explored rooms?
and that it should shrink to be the smallest possible rectangle or square.
Mmm...nice idea. It might take a bit of work to do that, however. I'll look into it.
And if you click on the brown area, it closes the room select screen.
I agree. I've made this change.
moo wrote:
Would be better if the click-on-the-map-at-the-bottom-left only opened and closed the bigger map, and clicks on the bigger map only chose rooms to view, or something like that..
Originally, I had clicking on the small minimap always brought up the level map first. But then through playtesting this feature myself and watching over peoples' shoulders I noticed people started wanting to click rooms on the minimap to see them instantly, and always bringing up the map and having to click on the room again to see it first was slow. So I streamlined that step out by just bringing up the room they click on immediately. I agree that going back to the pop-up level map after dismissing that room can be confusing, however. My issue with this is that with changed rules, there would be no way to get the level map to pop up at all if there is no visible empty space in the minimap.
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[Last edited by mrimer at 05-02-2008 02:23 PM]
