Map tool

[santiago]

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.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

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.

[Timosity]

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.

[santiago]

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.      I guess that has to be the way to go after all then...

[Pumaman]

Well, you could always use a diagramming tool like Visio, but it's generally quicker and easier to have these things on paper