On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Johanna Ploog wrote: > On 22 December 2010 03:27, William Tanksley, Jr <wtanksle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> David Ploog <dpl...@mi.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> Main Game....Dungeon Crawl >>> Help.........Tutorial..........Hints Mode.......Instructions >>> Minigames....Sprint............Zot Defense......The Arena > > At first glance, that looks a bit busy. I'd like to see a mockup myself. Horizontally, there is a lot of space. The thing above is not nearly using it to full effect. >>> 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. >> >> If you're suggesting to NOT move selections around, I strongly agree. >> The menu should be the same every time you start crawl. I'm fine with >> the selection pointing at the most recently used option; that's a >> well-established behavior. > > I agree. (I think David was suggesting moving things around if > selecting the third column should not be possible for some reason, but > I don't think it'll be.) I thought someone suggested that the last choice was on top or so. >> One sudden gust of insight: a more extreme change would be to do this >> same thing for savegames as well -- display only the character names, >> spaced out, on a few lines. The complete game description could be >> displayed as a hint line (the same line would hold brief explanations >> of the other options, of course). > > I wouldn't like that. If you do have more than two save games, you're > probably switching a lot (at least I am), so hiding the information > about the character and game mode makes selecting one of them more > work. Erik and I discussed this back in the day for a bit. The question was how to sort save files. One could sort by level, or name (alphabetically), or by time (when played last). In the end, it didn't matter much. 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
