Re: [glob2-devel] game idea

[Joey Marshall]

> I think that you are very right!!!! I also like very much the papyrus, 
> because it's useless, it just adds some atmosphere. Something more that 
> would be very but *very* cool is... wind! This is hard to do, yes, but I 
> really love wind! When you see it on the water, making little ripples, 
> when it's on the fields you see them move, everything could move, even 
> grass and sand!
> 
> Ok, you'll say that this is again an idea that is impossible to code, 
> the sprites cannot contain all the possibilities, and it would take too 
> much cpu anyway. But please have a look at the following web site to 
> appreciate the full power of simple sprites:
> http://www.lecielestbleu.com/media/puppettoolframe.htm
> 
> What about decomposing grass, trees, water, wheat, etc into smaller 
> sprites that are articulated? Would that be feasible in real time? 
> Butterflies could also be welcome to move in the wind.
> 
> Furthermore, we could have a very simple meteorological model, like the 
> one I did years ago, and I seem to remember that you nct and nuage did 
> one too. But with more generative random in it. This model could trigger 
> the articulations of the sprites to simulate the effect of wind.
> 
> What I like in this idea is that it completely fits into the logic of 
> "strategic simulation" and also fits in the sweet universe of the
> globules.
> 
> We should then also think about all kind of gameplay extensions that 
> could be based on the wind. This would be important, it would really 
> make it worth coding all that, because for simple aesthetic purpose it's 
> probably way too much work. Right now I don't have very cool gameplay 
> ideas with the wind, perhaps it's not such a good idea, or perhaps I'm 
> not very inventive right now. Any ideas?
> 

I love the idea of wind. as long as it doesn't make the game run really
slow. And if you want me to make butterflies, I will. I was thinking of
making them 8 *8 pixles.