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From: "Johan H MacLeod" <j-mac@lineone.net>
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Subject: Re: Snake Update
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 01:37:50 +0100
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>Nicely done!  The levels make for an appealing twist on the old snake game;
>I can't comment on the 2p play, though, 'cuz I don't have a 2nd player
>around at the moment.

    Cheers! I have had problems testing the two player section of the game
for the same reason.

>Out of curiosity, what features are you planning to add?

    This whole project is going to be an on-going thing, hopefully ending up
in 3d with enemy computer controlled snakes and the such like. But this will
probably be released as Snake 2000 (or some such appropriate name). I will
have a break from snake when the present incarnation of snake is finished,
and start looking into 3d stuff, and possibly another completely different
project in the interim.

>The control is kinda weird--I know it has to wait until the next grid point
>to let you turn, but that can feel really laggy.  Could you set some kind
ot
>threshold after a grid point but before hitting, say, a third or halfway to
>the next such that before that point it'll consider you to have turned at
>the previous, and move you appropriately?  Maybe that'd be even weirder.
    I know what you mean about the control. It does take some getting used
to. But it is controllable with practise. I may have a play with the control
system.

>I think if you added enemies or something, it could become a really solid
>game; perhaps different kinds, from dudes who are little more than moving
>blocks to guys you can eat but can't let sideswipe you, or guys who fly and
>aim for your head.

    All interesting ideas. Hmmm. I will probably leave most of them to the
3d version...


>mike
>
>

    Thanks for the comments...

                Mac