Maps for User Contributed Levels...

[datahead8888]

Once Issue #56 is worked, another enhancement for the user contributed levels would be to generate maps for them. It would be good if the maps were a bit better than just some random level locations and paths, but something is better than nothing.

Tasks:

• Determine possible categories or characteristics of each contributed level that was accepted in Issue User Contributed Levels... #56
• Group levels in map worlds based on these categories/characteristics
• Create maps
• Add menu option(s) to access worlds to SMC
  • It would probably still be good to allow user levels to be run individually

For another thought, it would be interesting if a series of maps and levels could be compiled into a "game" and saved as such. Artwork could then be associated with it. I could create yet another issue id for this if there is interest.

NOTE: Not slated for upcoming release of SMC

[Luiji]

Something we've been entertaining the idea of integrating package management into the system, so you could bind your maps into a single package with custom artwork and any artwork you imported or wanted to share could just be a dependency to reduce duplication. If we ended up doing that, we could also provide a mechanism to bind all dependencies into a single file for e-mailing to people and the like.

Something that I think would be awesome for SMC to eventually get to is where it functions as a sort of game engine and people could take their custom level, artwork and skins packs, create a single game file, and distribute it with the SMC executable as a complete, independent game. :)

[datahead8888]

Superceded by: Secretchronicles/server#2