Suggestion: images or animations

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:24 pm

why not have a short video clip (if possible) when turns are spent eg when attacking a viedo of a battle... when trading a vid of getting money etc?

Post by **Veranor** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:09 pm

Bandwidth and we don't really have a video for that. We'd need someone who's good with flash.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:50 pm

*laughs* i could get you some videos from age of empires recorded games heh

Post by **Veranor** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:09 pm

HQ-slasher wrote: *laughs* i could get you some videos from age of empires recorded games heh

Against copyright.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:13 pm

oh yea thats true never thought of that i s'pose...

Post by **Zephyrus** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:33 pm

Well, if you want bandwidth conservation... stick figures?

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:54 pm

*laughs*... i have flash MX but im not very good at it or i could do some...

Post by **Ruddertail** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:25 pm

Well, I personaly like faf as a stricly a text-based game, but that's just my personal opinion.

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:28 pm

yea its ok as text but i was just thinking a video might add some action into it if you know what i mean

Post by **Ruddertail** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:59 pm

It might. But it would be more hassle, and more to have bugs in. Also, that's kind of the point of games like Faf. To be text based. If you start adding in video, then pretty soon you might have nothing but a online video game, just like the multitudes of other video and computer games that have internet capabuilities.(sp?)

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:18 pm

well yeah thats true i s'pose so scrap this whole idea *laughs*

Post by **The Beatles** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:26 pm

There is a solution though. Since FaF is fully theme-able, we could have a text-based theme, an XML theme, and a multimedia-ish theme. We could even have a theme that's only meant for machines to communicate with, like a desktop program or ssh client. It's possible to divide it up into hi-bandwidth and lo-bandwidth themes. So, Slasher, I suggest if you want animations, start making them or asking your friends to make them, and if they're good, we'll put it into a new theme.

Nick Thomas · Post by **Nick Thomas** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:16 pm

How about those pics that they have at RWL?

Post by **The Beatles** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:37 pm

Sure, why not? Anything can be done, the code is good.

Post by **Ruddertail** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:39 pm

Perosnaly, I think this sounds like a great idea if you put in different themes, some with video/pictures, some without.

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