Author Topic: [GAME DESIGN] RPG Pause Menu (Read 7728 times)

Radical Pi · « **on:** January 07, 2006, 02:32:00 pm »

I'm going to be started an RPG soon for the 83 + series, and one thing has been bothering me: what should I put in its pause menu? So far I might have

check your stats
continue gameplay
save game
exit game
item menu
look at map

Anything not needed, or anything needed that isn't here?

kalan_vod · « **Reply #1 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:38:00 pm »

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QUOTE (Radical Pi @ 7 January 2006, 20:32)

I'm going to be started an RPG soon for the 83 + series, and one thing has been bothering me: what should I put in its pause menu? So far I might have

check your stats
continue gameplay
save game
exit game
item menu
look at map

Anything not needed, or anything needed that isn't here?

Load game?

Radical Pi · « **Reply #2 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:44:00 pm »

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QUOTE (kalan_vod @ 7 January 2006, 20:38)

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QUOTE (Radical Pi @ 7 January 2006, 20:32)

I'm going to be started an RPG soon for the 83 + series, and one thing has been bothering me: what should I put in its pause menu? So far I might have

check your stats
continue gameplay
save game
exit game
item menu
look at map

Anything not needed, or anything needed that isn't here?

Load game?

At a pause menu?

Also, what's your view on teacher keys? I saw a lot of that on ticalc.

tifreak · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:44:00 pm »

That might work... Check AOD out for a simple in-game menu...

As for a teacher key, I would have MODE be one, and have it either display a blinking cursor, then return to the game, or auto-save, and return to the homescreen...

MathStuf · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:48:00 pm »

Options if you have them.

Radical Pi · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:50:00 pm »

Teacher key i'll go to homescreen and prompt a string and expr( in a loop until a password is typed.

What AOD? There's six at ticalc

MathStuf · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2006, 02:52:00 pm »

MODE is for MirageOS quitting. If I remember right, APPS/ESC are typically used on the z80 calcs.

tifreak · « **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2006, 03:00:00 pm »

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Teacher key i'll go to homescreen and prompt a string and expr( in a loop until a password is typed.

What AOD? There's six at ticalc

http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/ainfo/2.htm

That is what I am talking about. Don't laugh at the code either, it was my second game to ever be released...

Radical Pi · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2006, 03:00:00 pm »

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MODE is for MirageOS quitting. If I remember right, APPS/ESC are typically used on the z80 calcs.

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Me no see no ESC :

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Sorry, tifreak, I laughed when I clicked to save it and it prompted to be saved as click.
I'm not sending this to my calc, i'll just look through every file until I see a menu.................D3DE lol...........................D3ME
Ah.

tifreak · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2006, 03:07:00 pm »

There is no ESC on the z80s...

:cry:

No laughing!!!!! :angry:

:dissapointed:

:flame:

:lmao:

:laugh:

Just kidding. I plan on goin through and optimizing the code...

MathStuf · « **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2006, 03:07:00 pm »

DEL...my bad. I'm getting so used to the 89 keypad...

Radical Pi · « **Reply #11 on:** January 07, 2006, 03:11:00 pm »

Del i can do.
Now my pause will have the following:

Stats
Items
Save
Continue
End Game

The map option would be too much work

Spellshaper · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2006, 12:14:00 am »

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Stats
Items
Save
Continue
End Game

options maybe? (There I put "Garbagecollect", though it

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