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What's actually about making a predefined Style for everything and let the game read it from a human-readable XML or CSS file somewhere in the game's files so everyone can change and share the styles?

akirassasin6 years ago

What do you mean?

Crimson Fork6 years ago

I mean that it would come in handy to have an editable file which specifies the color or the apperance in general.

For example an XML source could look like this:

<xml>
<bullet type="normal" color="#ffffff">
</xml>

Or if it's something CSS-like:

bullet
    {color: #ffffff;}
bullet.normal
     {border-color: #0000ff;}

Or maybe just any new syntax, it's just that anyone who knows a very little about HTML will be able to understand that immediately.

akirassasin6 years ago

I'm not too sure if this would gel well with procedural generation - the generated colors give the bullets a certain uniqueness compared to when they use similar colors. Thanks for the idea though - might use it for player colors instead :)

Crimson Fork6 years ago

What do you mean by "player colors"? Maybe the game could generate a theme automatically and one has the option to overwrite it, so the theme is not fixed yet still customizeable?

akirassasin6 years ago

Hmm... that's actually a very useful idea! Especially for people with color blindness, or have a hard time dealing with colors. I'll try to implement it into v0.2 or v0.3 as soon as possible.

Crimson Fork6 years ago

"I'll try to implement it into v0.2 or v0.3 as soon as possible." - I really appreciate the fact that you like my ideas but please don't rush yourself, don't get it wrong, but just look at what happened to the arms. Just take the time you need and release something when you're sure it's ready or with the specific purpose of playtesting rather than rushing to fix something new that confuses players.

I know that making a theme setting is something with way less bug-potential than a new game mechanic but it's just something general I wanted to get rid off my chest. I am, and I assume most people who play bullet hell games, a patient person, since getting inpatient is the actual ticket to hell, and I (we) don't mind if the new update comes in a week or in 3 months. Not because I have plenty of other games I could play in the meantime.

Of course, if there's anyone here who does mind if it's getting delayed, just tell me and I'll take the "wii" back. It's just my feeling how BH-players are.

How do you plan to implement it? I mean what do you think the syntax will be like?

akirassasin6 years ago

Haha, oops, might have gotten a bit too excited for the game :) this is my first time working on a long term project like this, so thanks for the reminder!

I'm thinking that the syntax may put people off, so a GUI in the settings menu could be used as an interface for color customization.

Crimson Fork6 years ago

Well hmm... I'm not sure about this, I mean, usually when a game lets me change colors I... don't like how the interface becomes, though I'm not certain why. Maybe you can do both? Just output the settings to a plain text file so you can share or edit it if you want to. Also would it be possible to use custom sounds?

BTW, I forgot to ask, is it normal that the settings menu doesn't have anything yet?

akirassasin6 years ago

Haha, I'm not too sure myself - got to sit down and think about it for a while (:

I don't think custom sounds will be in the game, sorry!

The settings menu is supposed to be empty for now. Guess I should have removed it after checking how it looks like! Settings will come after I come up with a better menu system.

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