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Starmap Layout Demo - July 15, 2022
🕑 Added 2022-07-15 18:38:26 +0000 UTC
Simple's scripting language is great for creating tons of dynamic, interactive gameplay. But what about parts of the game that benefit from visual layout, like the static starmap from UQM1? We walk through how a designer (or modder!) can use Tiled to lay out the starmap and how that becomes part of the real game.
I forgot to mention it in the video, but this is also an example of data useful to both the simulation and the view, since the viewer may want to represent something like the starmap in the user interface. Though the planet names and colors of stars are not relevant to the simulation, the view can inspect that same data when showing a player-facing starmap!
Comments
Dan Gerstein
We have to edit it too, after all. Why not let everyone in on the fun?! <3
Just the thought of getting to "travel" to the destination hinted by the arrow of the rainbow worlds, and discovering the ultimate fate of The Precursors ... SHIVVERS ... <3
Megallennial
Very cool that editability is being built in!
