Highscore page (displaying current highscores)

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Beta 27:

Number of highscores
Currently, four highscores are displayed, only.
Suggestion: Display five or even 10 highscores.
Notes:
– 1, 3, 5, or 10 highscore entries feel “natural” to me. Four entries is somehow odd.
– Displaying ten highscores would make the screen look too cramped and would require a complete redesign. So five highscores would be best, I think.

[Malban]

Hehe.

Sorry  this “must” also stay as it is. I guess I’ll build a new trend than – 4 entries.

A bit of a history… Originally I wanted your suggested five entries.

I did not have enought time to display them in 50Hz (my display routines were to slow). Also I did have some RAM shortage at that time. So I implemented 4 High Scores.

Than … probably months later – I implemented better routines – and the speed problems were gone, I think also the RAM was organized more efficiently.

But I didn’t change the high scores, because something … hm … else.

Later in testing Ollie found the high score too “boring”… So I implemented the

• music
• background stars
• and the flying ships around the scores

All of which I like pretty much. But I kept adding stuff, till I hit the 50Hz barrier (again).

So… even if I wanted to – I couldn’t add an additional fifth high score entry, because the display as it is would not allow it.

Sooo  you see – I am totall innocent – my hands are tied…

 

 

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