The titlescreen of future games requires many things.
1. Title of Game
2. Credits
3. Highscores
4. Instructions
5. Menu
Individually they can all be nice and small, but put together, they tend to make things super-crazy! Especially when they’re all equally fighting to attention.
Welcome to Framework Titlescreen Version 0.3
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Title, Subtitle and “Press Key to Start” are staples, athough I’ll be changing “Key” to “Click”.
On the left, a whole box of credits, and on the right is the little highscore/graph thing that you’ve seen earlier.
I can easily fit a menu down the middle of that once I’m ready..
As for instructions.
Hmm.
I’m not too sure about those, actually. If I can keep them short I can bundle them next to “Press Key to Start”, but.. who knows.
Centipong’s fine, though, since it tells you what you’re doing as you play.
..
Should be ok, right?!
Centipong : Tuesday!
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I think that the high score table should have the same background color as the credits have.
Indeed, the highscore looked nice to start with, but after some background color experimentations yesterday it became strikingly obvious that any light background would completely wash out the highscore table’s box..
I’m currently leaving it as it is, though. I’d rather get the game done over the next few days, and have another play around with the titlescreen for the next game.
Might even *shock horror* attempt to draw a few polygons, for slightly rounded edges!!!
How is that I don’t have that nice avatar as you have?
They’re “Gravatars”. Head to gravatar.com, sign up, upload an avatar, and it’ll appear.
They’re pretty universal, and work from your email address. Any gravatar supporting site will automatically use it, assuming you use the same email address.
Serverside, Gravatars are quite easy to implement into your own site. Just take the user’s email address, convert to lowercase, and mash it with md5, then ask gravatar for the associated image.
Any email it doesn’t know will instead get a random image. Or monster in this case..
(since the email address is MD5 hashed, it’s pretty damn near impossible to un-hash it, and extract a user’s email addy. So.. Safe and sound!!)
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