A great thing that you guys could do would be make it so people can play off of websites and have it full screen. Also, no hub, no pager. Just the game (basically, make it so you can run it like any normal game.). I think that if you did this, this feature could be popular. What do you think.
Also, it would be cool if you could have polls on here...
~wolf01
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 Dec 6 2003, 8:54 am
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Dec 6 2003, 8:59 am
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ZDarkGoku
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if their is no hub, how are people going to know if you made a game or not? they will spam the classified ads for the game website? I think this is a very bad idea.
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I think the idea is, such games would run as stand-alones from the HUB... the maker would publicize the game outside of BYOND. You might as well ask how the makers of any non-BYOND game let people know they've made it.
This is actually a pretty often-requested feature. Don't know how feasible it is, though, but there is demand there. | |
But if it becomes this way, there won't be any HUB pages or Games Lives pages to show all current games online. So the only way to get people to play your game is spam this forum in the Classified Ads section or submit your game's site to search engines. Have you ever heard of the Playersworlds Engine? Its kinda like the BYOND Engine but much poorer and can't do that many stuff with it. That's a standalone client and no people plays Playerworlds games a lot cause they are stable pages that shows entirely only games made by that engine. If BYOND becomes like that, then you'll probably only see about 1-3 people playing on each server and new games might not even get a chance to have people play it.
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ZDark, take a step back and think. No one's saying, "Get rid of the HUB!" (at least, no one on this thread is.) What they're asking for is the option to make their games standalone. What is wrong with that?
Obviously, if someone feels their game is ready to be a standalone, they're going to be taking the responsibility for promoting it themselves... and if they want it to stand apart from the Hub, they're probably looking at an audience outside the established BYOND community, so why on earth would they spam classified ads? If BYOND allowed standalone games and someone made their game standalone and no one showed up, they'd a) have no one to blame but themselves and b) probably just put it back as a regular hub/client game. | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
ZDark, take a step back and think. No one's saying, "Get rid of the HUB!" (at least, no one on this thread is.) Wolf wrote: Also, no hub, no pager. Just the game (basically, make it so you can run it like any normal game.). | |
Go read his whole post. He's talking about an option for making a game full screen, and thus not having the Dream Seeker client interface, and thus not having the hub and pager buttons on said client... not a REQUIREMENT to do so, and he's definitely not talking about a change to the BYOND hub/website itself, just a way the in-game interface can appear.
Again I say, take a step back and think. You've focused on that one part "No hub, no pager," because the implications panic you, and you've ignored the actual content of his message. | |
Oh. Well, that's a good then, but then they'll have no more use of pagers unless they also add to have classic mode(current) and full-screen.
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You can use CGI mode, but that dus not make a map, and is only single-user at a time (but you can hav multiple users bi savefile, just not at the same time).
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DarkView wrote:
The pager has been taken out of Dream Seeker (As of BYOND v4.0). Not so much taken out as it is apart from dream seeker. | |
Wolf01 wrote:
> A great thing that you guys could do would be make it so people can play off of websites and have it full screen. Also, no hub, no pager. Just the game (basically, make it so you can run it like any normal game.). I think that if you did this, this feature could be popular. What do you think. Also, it would be cool if you could have polls on here... What i'd request is for somehow for a game to be rated, ya know, like on a 1 - 10 scale. The numbers won't be rounded, and the summary will be ended up in 5 stars. That way, you can find much better games at a much faster paste. | |
Faster paste? Like, quick drying glue? Wow, I could do with some of that.
Worlds: He means pace, you dopey! Oh. OK. Well, I agree with him anyway. | |
You're like the Ventriloquist, that guy who fights Batman with a little Al Capone doll (or sometimes, a sock) on his hand.
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Wolf01 wrote:
A great thing that you guys could do would be make it so people can play off of websites and have it full screen. Also, no hub, no pager. um, you can now- it's called BYONDcgi - a method of playing BYOND games through the browser. BYONDbwicki is actually a .dmb, and i believe deadron or gug (or DDT in general) made a hangman game that you played through the browser. BYONDcgi basically allows a webpage to interact with your .dmb game file. Now doing maps and animations might a be a bit trickier, but outputing HTML and Javascript code (for moving characters around the screen) in the right way should give you the same effect as running a game via DreamSeeker. We have yet to see anyone really push BYONDcgi in that direction. | |
