They mean something that tells people how to play the game. The game controls might be obvious to you, since you made them, but they won't necessarily be so for anyone else.

The easiest way to make a help system is to write some instructions down in a text or HTML file, and then have a help() command that makes this display in the browser window. Even lazier, you could just make the file and have it included in the game's package.

Flash_war wrote:

Well..in the e-mail it says:

Lack of helpfiles, please resubmit this game when you add some sort of help
system.


Just wondering what it means by 'help system'.

For details on game requirements, see:

http://www.deadron.com/byond/ ByondBwicki.dmb?ByondGameChannel

Thanks. :)

To display an image in there, put this in before you display the help window:

<code>usr << browse_rsc('icon.dmi')</code>

Then put in the help text.

I might actually put this functionality into the library. Thanks for the idea!

Sheesh, you have to make it difficult for me don't ya... :P

After some research, I think this should work:

<code>usr << browse_rsc(icon('icon.dmi',"someiconstate"),'blah.dmi')</ code>

If you want a specific direction, just specify it in icon():

<code>usr << (icon('icon.dmi',"someiconstate",NORTHWEST),'blah.dmi')</ code>

BTW, this is getting incredibly off topic. :P

You should have a bit somewhere in your code that actually displays the help system (calls the datum's display proc). Put it there, not in the datum. The <img> bit goes in the datum (in the help text to be exact), but the other bit goes in the code that tells the help system to display itself.

Post your code and I'll have a look at it (it might be an idea to start a new thread in in Code Problems).