[Idea] Power-ups: Name and Level

[hcmffm]

Beta 20

Currently, when “catching” a power-up, the power-up’s name is displayed in the top-right corner (e.g. Speed+)
Suggestion: For the player, its interesting to know the name of the power-up. In addition it would be very interesting to know the level of that property/equipment. It would be very cool, if the level could also be displayed (e.g. Speed 5).

 

 

[Malban]

As you may notice the display is “pretty small”. This is again due to text display being so costly.

With the current setup how should I display more information? (status in pause is always  available)…

 

And what do you as a player gain from the information? You can’t change it unless you find another power up.

And you don’t you “feel” if you speed is enough? Do you need an additional number?

 

… and … the current “speed” is actually a technical value – it is the 16bit number that is added/subtracted from your 16 bit position information.

 

 

[hcmffm]

Thank you for your reply.

… and … the current “speed” is actually a technical value – it is the 16bit number that is added/subtracted from your 16 bit position information.

Perhaps not really needed. Or perhaps only for the “Technical player”. Showing a Speed 53428 doesn’t make sense, either. A percentage would be (more or less) short and meaningful. Speed 80%

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by hcmffm.

[Malban]

Actually…

What the original Warblade does… it prints little bars as to where between minimum and maximum speed you are.

It does not tell you any value – but there you know at least approximately where you stand.

(in Vectorblade the speed values range from 500 (minimum) to 1025 (maximum) in 25 unit steps…

I’ll keep thninking about it…

 

[hcmffm]

What the original Warblade does… it prints little bars as to where between minimum and maximum speed you are.

Sounds like a good solution – but the Vectrex graphics and performance might make this challenging…

Another one for the Flowers section…

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