Hi there,
here's my opinion on the idea: I am quite a fan of the maximum fall height as it is. Increasing it would mean that quite a few levels will become a lot less taxing.
Furthermore, I have acquired a certain "instinct" for that special height. And I guess a lot of other passionate players have gotten used to that special distance to the ground too. So I'd say: never touch a running system.
The instant bomber has already made mastering levels a lot easier. Yet more "help" could eventually make things too easy which would be a shame. The lives of the Pingus have to remain risky ones requiring our witty ideas saving all of them (or at least as many as possible).
Best regards,
Maria.
P.S.: THANK YOU ever so much for all the work you are doing on PINGUS: Eliminating bugs and implementing new functions. And the new graphics of the levels you worked on are fantastic. And - again - everything is designed with so much love for detail. Makes playing even more fun than before.
Von: Ingo Ruhnke <address@hidden>
An: address@hidden
Betreff: [Pingus-Devel] Increasing the maximum fall height
Datum: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:09:41 +0200
One thing that currently bothers me quite a bit is the maximum fall
height that is survivable, which is at around 191 pixel. I feel that
this distance is a good bit to small. One level that demonstrates that
quite well, also happens to be the very first one in Pingus:
http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/md5/c14f3629fb95ebee6d442239b277ad59-pingus-deadlydistance.png
Doing a clean dig through the ground will actually lead to a height
that might be deadly, as it's just pixels away from the deadly
distance.
I am not yet sure by how much that height should be increased, but I
am thinking something around 256 would fit much better, as it gives
more freedom in building more vertical levels.
256 itself is of course a bit problematic as a lot of groundpiece
blocks have that height and thus would make it a little to easy to
accidentally build situations that are just pixels away between death
and safe distance, thus something like 270 might be a better value.
Anyway, I just wanted to ask what others think about the current
situation and if they feel that the current 191 pixel distance is a
problem.
PS: I am of course aware that this will break some levels, but we have
to clean them up and fix them anyway and one could implement a
workaround that keeps the old fall height for old levels if needed.
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