Analytical Perspectives in Game Design
Starting a game
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The game does the following on start-up.

  1. Show the user a splash screen.
  2. Start the application control bar.
  3. Remove the splash screen.

Called by:

Prerequisites

None. Not that this means that the game can have multiple copies running on the same machine. I have not decided if this is good or bad.

End results

The object Frame1, which is the application control bar, has been created and initialised and displayed. The object Splash Frame has been hidden and marked for garbage collection.

Things to do:

  1. Change it so that the splash frame does not load so many libraries and hence loads a lot faster.
Step
1 numb.bat new Splash Frame
2a numb.bat new Frame1
2b numb.bat add General Event Listener to Frame1
3 numb.bat dispose Splash Frame
 

22/11/99

 

See also: [Role Playing Games] [Game Engine]
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