masonjason
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These are ideas that don't change the gameplay at all, just make things that little bit cooler or more interesting.
1. Individual room names. At the moment, the only way you can do this is with scrolls, which is more than a little clumsy. I'm sure this could coexist peacefully with the current coordinate system, as well.
2. Sound when all tar mothers are dead. There's a sound when all brains have been killed, and since tar mothers have a similar sort of effect (i.e. the effect is the same no matter how many there are, and only expires when there are none left), I think we should have a sound effect for them too. It could be a slurping noise or something.
3. Backdrops. Seeing through pits onto a picture in the background; no more to say, really.
4. Pits as windows. Now this would be cool, although probably difficult to implement. It could be possible to see through pits into the floor below (taking the stairs room of one level as directly above the entrance room of another level). Note that it would not be possible to interact with anything on the floor below, and the view would be deeply shadowed to avoid confusion.
What do you think?

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The_Red_Hawk
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Hmmm... The only one I see as worthwhile is #2, which I think is a great idea.

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Aris Katsaris
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I think that both #3 and #4 would look a bit corny -- and distracting. The way it looks now -- like a sheer drop, given one style, or water in another, or lava in yet a third, seems to me more fitting the DROD style...

#1 and #2 are good, though.

masonjason
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Of course, there would have to be an option to turn 3 and 4 off.
And here's another one.
5. Ability to place a single tar mother eye. At the moment, I can only place tar mothers in pairs, and only on tar. If I want a single eye, I have to place two and then remove one of them. And if I don't want my tar mother to be on tar, I have to place it and then remove the tar from under it. Also, has anyone else found it funny that the pairs of eyes are always horizontal? Since the rooms are viewed from above, a vertical or diagonal orientation would make just as much sense.


[Edited by masonjason on 02-14-2004 at 07:05 PM GMT]

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The_Red_Hawk
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That's because having 1 is an error. Tar mothers are always supposed to have 2 eyes. In future, I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't delete a single eye.

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I've always thought the ability to delete one eye was a bug, though I can see definite potential for changing the orientation of Tar Mother eyes. Thoughts from developers?

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You mean having them vertically instead?

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I mean being able to rotate them when you place them, so they can be oriented in any orthogonal direction. It's six (two?) more squares from the GeneralTiles.bmp file to do this, if the programmers feel it's worth it.

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DiMono wrote:
I've always thought the ability to delete one eye was a bug, though I can see definite potential for changing the orientation of Tar Mother eyes. Thoughts from developers?

I like being able to delete individual eyes. For example, if you have a tar blob that is 5 squares wide, you can't symmetrically place a tar mother. But if you put a space in-between the two eyes, it looks nice and symmetrical.

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Okay, so how about being able to place eyes like a snake? Put one eye, move the mouse orthogonally where you want the second eye to be, click to finish? Clicking somewhere illegal would put the second eye to the right of the first, I guess.

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I'm visualising just having a single eye on the monsters menu that you can put anywhere you like, like any other monster; I don't see anything wrong with this. You also can't draw areas with tar mothers like you can with other monsters (except snakes, but they're a special case).

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The_Red_Hawk
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But..... The problem is that mothers have two eyes.

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