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Patrick S. Duff (Pduff)
| | Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2000 - 8:46 pm: | |
I'd like to see more game selection screens like select.zrf. (For those of you who haven't noticed, it's just another Zillions rule file, with "pieces" for each of the games you can select. And have you tried the selection screen variants?) If the Zillions developers announced that game developers could submit piece graphics for a new selection screen, with it filling up on a first-come, first-served basis, all they'd have to do is add description lines and package the new selection zrf in a zip file along with all of the games it references. |
David GLAUDE (Glu)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 12, 2000 - 8:53 am: | |
Hello,
Here is my solution to the "selection screen for new games" problem. It require a little bit of programing (for me) and a little bit more of work for ZRF writers.
Idea:
* Each game writer provide a bitmap (60x60) of the game (like in selection screen), they also provide a name (could be file name if nothing is provided) and a description.
* I write a simple program that gather those information and build a selection screen (ZRF) to start other games.
Now, there are two way to provide the necessary information to this program:
* Define a syntax for this so that the information is inside the ZRF file. In order to avoid Zillions of Games to have to be aware of this, the syntax will be hiden inside comment:
;%%%(Selection chess "feel like playing chess?")
* For game already publish or publish by Zillions, those information could be into a separate file: *.Zin and we could create a compilation of such file wich will contain exactly the same information required but also the name of the ZRF file (guessing can be good too).
Now my program will receave as input a list of files or directory that need to be scan for *.ZRF and *.ZIN files and based on those will generate your personal selection screen based on the game you actually have installed on your PC!!!
Doesn't it look nice, usefull, backward compatible, easy to implement (it is almost done).
Please, to anybody reading this, send me your feedback by e-mail or here and if there is sufficient demand I will do it ASAP.
David GLAUDE. glu@who.net |
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