On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Johanna Ploog wrote: > On 18 December 2010 18:55, William Tanksley, Jr <wtanksle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The start menu's starting to get a little awkward. Does anyone else >> think it might be good to at least reorder it, and possibly to insert >> informational items? I agree that the starting menu has issues. One of them is that on a standard console (24 lines), you may only see two saved games. (Another one is the order, as William pointed out.) This means that adding extra lines is not good in itself. > Adding header lines cuts down on the number of lines available for > saved games. Do we have enough space for that? > Apart from that, the order you suggest makes sense and I like the idea > of sectioning them apart like this. > > Indenting might work: > > Main Game....Dungeon Crawl > Help.........Help Menu (or press '?' at any time) > .............Tutorial and Walkthrough > .............Dungeon Crawl with Playing Hints > Minigames....Dungeon Sprint > .............Zot Defense > .............The Arena I agree with this, and also with "Minigames". We might, however, save some more lines by using columns: Main Game....Dungeon Crawl Help.........Tutorial..........Hints Mode.......Instructions Minigames....Sprint............Zot Defense......The Arena If you played Sprint last (say), then restarting should make Sprint the default selection. I am not sure whether it is crucial to have the last choice in the first column. We would see from testing. David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Crawl-ref-discuss mailing list Crawl-ref-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crawl-ref-discuss
