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Feb 19 2007, 7:24 am

Keywords: gamedesign, mud

Alathon

I'm in a serious crisis right now, as to whether to just dump DS support entirely or not.

BMUD looks great in telnet - The map display is fitting, the descriptive area is roughly right, and theres room to display nearby objects and mobiles just fine.

BMUD looks *horrible* in DS - The map display font is annoyingly bad (as it always has been) and the text area scrolls horrifyingly slowly.

If I dump DS support entirely, the game itself will *look* better in telnet and I can avoid constantly having to factor in making something look at least decent in DS - However, in doing so I also alienate a large amount of people from even wanting to try the game.

If anyone has experience setting up nicely looking text-mode games with BYOND, I'd love to hear some tips and tricks to make things look okay. As is, I'm finding the limited character set, slow scrolling text and horrible monospace font to be a large detracting factor in things.

Feb 19 2007, 7:38 am (Edited on Feb 19 2007, 7:45 am)
Jermman	What are you programming the game in, anyways? C++ or DM?

Feb 19 2007, 10:08 am
Squeegy	How 'bout DD?

Feb 19 2007, 1:14 pm
Alathon	Jermman wrote: What are you programming the game in, anyways? C++ or DM? DM.

Feb 19 2007, 1:25 pm
SuperSaiyanGokuX	The whole "DS" thing threw me off until towards the end of your post (though in retrospect, I'm not sure why... I've referred to Dream Seeker as "DS" myself) I kept thinking "Nintendo DS"... That might be Jermman's confusion as well...

Feb 19 2007, 7:07 pm
Nadrew	Don't worry about Seeker too much, just let people know if they login using it that the game looks better in a telnet client and that you don't really intend it to look decent in DS. If someone wants to play it in DS let them -- not your problem.

Feb 21 2007, 6:21 am
digitalmouse	i'm going with Nadrew on this one. real mudders will use telnet or their favorite MUD client anyway.

Feb 22 2007, 8:19 am
Jermman	Uh no, I knew he was talking about dreamseeker. You can however program a mud in c++, so I was wondering.

Feb 23 2007, 5:20 am
Jmurph	Well, you can also recommend a font (since DS lets you select that) to help DS users out. You can even make the TTF a part of the rsc I believe.