A Curve

Hello, loves! A surprise requirement challenges me. They want the minimap changed substantially! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Having looked at the mini-map, performing as requested, my Product Definition Personality has decided to change their mind. How about, instead of this big wide map, we just let the player use mouse scrolling to zoom in and out on the main map? Well, how about that? Sure, why not, we’ll just have to figure out some stuff. Let’s try some experiments and we’ll see what wee can do. Prefatory Remarks Yesterday, while not writing an article, I improved the KeyedSpriteList to separate the floor tiles from the content tiles, so that the mini-map no longer displays content. The changes aren’t really germane to anything, although what we do with this new idea may or may not rely on them. It depends on whether we decide to show content in the zoomed out view. We might argue that you’re making a map as you go and that you mark all the things in all the rooms. Round Tuit I…