The Idea to take an HTML Editor is great, Pete.
Indeed, when I thought about an idea similar to that, I figured I started with a story board, which I would scetch with a pencil on several papers. Then I'd scan these papers, and have a draft of backgrounds, that you can use to test the storyline. With Pete's suggestion, you can scetch most of the story without even programming. This way you can concentrate on the story first, before you sink a lot of time in development (unless, of course, the development is the real fun. But then again, I think the story should be. Ok, both).
Dirk
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Von: Pete Shinners [mailto:pete@visionart.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2001 20:57
An: pygame-users@seul.org
Betreff: Re: [pygame] Introducing Pyzzle
> Since I'm new to pygame and game developing I thought id ask you how to go
> about coding Myst style interface. Which really just is lots (100s) of pics
> with there own hot spots and some simple logic for the puzzles. That's a vast
> over simplification, you have all played Myst so you know what's involved.
> Any ideas?
creating the images is gonna be the grunt of the work. it will be
best if you have your story/maps/game all preplanned ahead of time,
so you are only creating the images you need (and only doing them once) :]
as for creating the screens, it should be very easy. a (potentially)
clever idea might be to use a simple HTML image map editor. it lets you
load an image and place clickable areas on the image. i'd just stick
with rectangular areas, that'll make things easiest. you could do
something sneaky like make the URL for a clickable area the name of
a function to call in your python code.
the html would be simple to parse and there are some decent html map
editors out there. the html code could looks like this...
<img src="cave_entrance.png" usemap=#cave_entrance>
<MAP NAME="cave_entrance">
<AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS="3,5,109,44" HREF="unlock_door>
<AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS="200,50,250,100" HREF="talk_to_guard>
</MAP>
you could create your whole game data on a single html page like that.
of course, you may want to add some sort of 'condition check' to make
sure the "hotspot" is available. perhaps put more data into the ALT tag...
<AREA SHAPE=rect COORDS="200,50,250,100" HREF="talk_to_guard" ALT=is_guard_alive>
anyways, there's lots of options, this may not be the best, but
at least worth looking into.
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