Re: [Pingus-Devel] two player mode

[Carsten Milkau]

Hello Daniel,

On Wednesday, July 9 18:36 2008, Daniel Herding wrote:
> What about not making the multiplayer feature competitive, but
> coorperative? For example, one player gets blue pingus, the other one
> controls red ones. Each color has its own entry and its own exit. The

I also thought about this, however it has two big drawbacks:

1) it requires a lot of communication between the two parties to coordinate 
their work well. It is not obvious how this should be achieved conveniently 
while each of them has to control their pingus.

2) If both all players plan their actions (which can be assumed, as pinugs is 
more of a puzzle than an arcade game), the multiplayer mode does not add much 
to the gameplay. It's still almost the same puzzle, you only have two sets of 
pingus with different abilities. Although two players carry out the actions, 
they are just carrying out a single plan, which (thanks to pausing) could 
equally well be done by a single player.

Puzzle games are always single player games, we have to face it =)

Greetings
Carsten