mobo fried

My motherboard on my laptop fried, how nice. At least its not something where i will lose any data but i can't access my work that i haven't uploaded and have had to rewrite it. The level class seems to be functional but it needs some way to determine "events" or progression in a level. For instance if the level contains an escort and the escort dies, we want the level to know that the mission has been failed

non linear level design

I feel a big problem with a lot of the newer games released is that the direction you need to go is always right in front of you. I miss being able to get lost in a level and exploring for a little bit, this doesn't mean that the player should have no idea where he is going, just that the next waypoint should be somewhere other than forward. Backtracking in a level is not always bad, especially if the areas change their behavior. if an asteroid field was easy for the first part of a mission because the player was fighting slow ships with no escorts, it could change to be one of the hardest areas after the player is faced with a swarm of small agile ships

sick

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