Cut off my legs and call me Shorty but I thought this was kind of a technical issue... 8)
There is a tool for keeping better track of your scripting, I was wondering if there is a tool for keeping better track of your rooms as well? When you have one or two of them I guess it won't matter, but if you have like 20+ then it can get confusing after a while.
You may of course draw all the rooms on paper and make notes, but I think it would be easier to have it in a file on your computer instead.
I don't think you should worry - usually, when your game gets that big, you're really involved in it, and you can tell that sort of thing right away just by looking at the room's number. ;)
I think Redrum is right, In my current project, I have over 80 rooms and I know them inside out, and some of them have around 1000 lines of code in them.
I just keep track in my head, I write notes on paper just for what I'm currently doing, eg. coordinates and views/loops, and have comments for all my globalints in the 'game start' in the global script. That's all I use to keep track of the whole game in every aspect.
but if you really need it, I think you answered your own question, just draw a few squares on a piece of paper, I can't see how that would be any harder than having some tool on your computer.
Quote from: Timosity on Sun 30/11/2003 09:42:21
but if you really need it, I think you answered your own question, just draw a few squares on a piece of paper, I can't see how that would be any harder than having some tool on your computer.
I just don't think it's practical fiddling around with paper, I have enough of that stuff from school. :P I guess that has to be the way to go after all then...
Well, you could always use a diagramming tool like Visio, but it's generally quicker and easier to have these things on paper ;)