64 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
64 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Game information</title>
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<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body background="images/back.gif">
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<!--START-->
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<h1>Game information</h1>
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A good game provides the player with some information on how to play the game.
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This information is displayed when the player presses the <F1> key during
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game play. <i>Game Maker</i> has a simple built-in mechanism to provide game
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help. However, it is limited in functionality. To create nicer games it is better
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to create the help yourself using special rooms or by using splash screen with
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e.g. html pages.
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<p>
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To create the simple game information, double click <b>Game Information</b>
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in the resource tree at the left of the screen. A little built-in editor is
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opened where you can edit the game information. You can use different fonts,
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different colors, and styles. Also you can set the background color.
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<p>
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<img src="images/form_help.jpg">
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<p>
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In the <b>File</b> menu you can also set a number of <b>Options</b>.
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Default the help is shown in the game window and game play is temporarily
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halted. Here you can indicate to show the help file in a separate window.
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In this case you can indicate the caption of the game information during the game. Also
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you can indicate the position (use -1 for centered) and size of the game
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information window and whether it should have a border and be sizeable by
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the player. You can force the information window to stay on top and you
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can indicate whether the game should continue playing while the information
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is shown.
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<p>
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Good advice is to make the information short but precise. Of course
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you should add your name because you created the game. All example games
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provided have an information file about the game and how it was created.
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You might want to indicate at the
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bottom of the help file that the user must press Escape to continue playing.)
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<p>
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If you want to make a bit more fancy help, use a program like Word. Then select
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the part you want and use copy and paste to move it from Word to
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the game information editor. For more advanced games though you
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probably will not use this mechanism at all but use some dedicated rooms
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to show help about the game.
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<!--END-->
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</body>
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</html>
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<!-- KEYWORDS
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information
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game information
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game help
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help
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mimic main window
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--> |