also their are only so many key commands available! and if a key command is a good one, does that mean that if somebody used it in a game already, that nobody else can use it? I don't think so! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] My thoughts on the MOnty Patch
> Hi. > That is correct. What happened was James North had made a level editor > for Monty which had to be drawn via a mouse. Obviously, that was > impossible for me. At first I thought about making a new editor but in > the end I decided to scrap the entire engine and write it over using C# > .NET which I am highly skilled at, and wrote my own engine for the game > from scratch. > In the process I realised I really liked some of the GMA concepts for > coordinates, the j, k, l, i movement keys, the f1 key help system, etc. > So I went ahead and built them in to the new engine. > I also logically have wrote a map feature which loads the maps for the > temples externally the way GMA does it in SOD and GTC. In the GMA engine > they are *.gm files, but in my engine they are *.map files. > > Neo wrote: >> Hi Gary, >> although Tom himself admits he got the inspiration for this idea and for >> the >> object detector from the GMA game engine, he doesn't use it to create his >> games. He's a qualified enough programmer to write his stand alone code >> on >> his own. In fact, he even had to rewrite the Monty core all from scratch, >> as >> the original Alchemy level editor and the engine were too graphical in >> nature for a totally blind developer, which Tom is. >> Take care, >> Lukas >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > __________ NOD32 1.1657 (20060713) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
