T2D TDN wishlist
by Steve Miles · in Torque Game Builder · 12/27/2005 (8:00 am) · 7 replies
The tutorials and outlines for the different game genres are a great start to T2D TDN, but I would like to see a section that gives examples of "standard game features". I know most of this stuff can be found in the forums, but I'd like an official version. :-)
standard game features:
- splash screens
- game loading status bar (graphical)
- customizing the "options" menu
- creating user profiles (ie. prompting them for their name at the opening of the game)
- storing game state (connected to each user above)
- example of how to organize torquescript for game levels
- example of a high score table (local)
- example of incorporating an internet high score list into the game
- how to handle things when players pause, minimize, or escape the game.
- what to remove/change from the development build for distribution
- protecting image and sound assets
Even better, I'd like to see a template game that has all of these things incorporated. I wouldn't think this would be too hard to put together, but would help me greatly. I'm trying to leave out genre-specific features, like incremental scoring, health bars, time countdown bars, etc...but would like to see those tutorials too.
standard game features:
- splash screens
- game loading status bar (graphical)
- customizing the "options" menu
- creating user profiles (ie. prompting them for their name at the opening of the game)
- storing game state (connected to each user above)
- example of how to organize torquescript for game levels
- example of a high score table (local)
- example of incorporating an internet high score list into the game
- how to handle things when players pause, minimize, or escape the game.
- what to remove/change from the development build for distribution
- protecting image and sound assets
Even better, I'd like to see a template game that has all of these things incorporated. I wouldn't think this would be too hard to put together, but would help me greatly. I'm trying to leave out genre-specific features, like incremental scoring, health bars, time countdown bars, etc...but would like to see those tutorials too.
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#2
Link to T2D TDN
It seemed to go OK, but now when I go back to the "edit" screen the code in the editing textbox doesn't contain the full page anymore. The page itself looks fine though...
12/27/2005 (11:44 am)
Just added it to the TDN:Link to T2D TDN
It seemed to go OK, but now when I go back to the "edit" screen the code in the editing textbox doesn't contain the full page anymore. The page itself looks fine though...
#3
Perhaps one of you guys can fix it up for me. Thx.
01/01/2006 (12:36 pm)
Hey all, finally got off my butt and wrote the Splash Screen tutorial under the Basic category. I've never used a Wiki before so I'm still kinda lost... I got the article written okay but I can't seem to get the link to turn blue like the others that have content linked to them, so whenever I click on the link it brings me to the edit page rather than the article itself. Anyways here's the link.Perhaps one of you guys can fix it up for me. Thx.
#4
01/01/2006 (4:09 pm)
@Drew: Great start man! I guess it's true, if you built it, they will come. :-) Thanks!
#5
Loading status bar
Main menu (GUI)
Custom "options" menu
Handling pause/minimize
But maybe TDN is built this way? It kinda seems like it, after inspecting the links...
01/03/2006 (11:57 pm)
Thanks Drew! Great stuff! However, it looks like you added that splash screen tutorial to the following links as well (at least from where I stand):Loading status bar
Main menu (GUI)
Custom "options" menu
Handling pause/minimize
But maybe TDN is built this way? It kinda seems like it, after inspecting the links...
#6
01/04/2006 (3:41 pm)
Thanks! And yea well like I said in my last post I can't get the article to link properly, was hoping someone else in the community would know how to fix it - never used a Wiki before
#7
On a side note, most of the topics you requested are planning on being covered eventually by me or Matt Langley. Of course, if anyone from the community gets to it first, have at it. And also, feel free to make more requests either here or by creating a link on TDN.
01/04/2006 (4:02 pm)
Done and done. What you did was create all of the links with the same name, so they all linked to the same page. The format is this: [[LinkToPage|Name of Page]]On a side note, most of the topics you requested are planning on being covered eventually by me or Matt Langley. Of course, if anyone from the community gets to it first, have at it. And also, feel free to make more requests either here or by creating a link on TDN.
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