weregamer
07-15-2006, 06:30 PM
I just picked up the ultimate geek gamer keyboard, and am thinking about the cool things that games could do with the LCD display. How about some of these ideas (most of these are basically showing the contents of one of the popup windows on the LCD, so providing them wouldn't be very hard.):
* In MP, show the player list on the LCD, and use the 4 LCD buttons for up/down (selection), invite to party, and chat.
* Show current quest steps (main and unfinished side quests)
* Show types and numbers of potions left, and use the LCD buttons to drink one. This takes a little explanation for how to make the UI work out. First, show in text on the top of the LCD the total number of health and energy potions, then a breakdown of count by type. For the LCD buttons, assign one to drink the smallest available health potion, one to drink the smallest one that will heal you fully (which is what I assume the current "R"/"E" button bindings do), and similarly the other two for energy.
While the last one is the one that would take a little coding, it would be really awesome for those of us with lots of skills who covet the 9 and 0 keys for skills but still want to see our potion counts.
* In MP, show the player list on the LCD, and use the 4 LCD buttons for up/down (selection), invite to party, and chat.
* Show current quest steps (main and unfinished side quests)
* Show types and numbers of potions left, and use the LCD buttons to drink one. This takes a little explanation for how to make the UI work out. First, show in text on the top of the LCD the total number of health and energy potions, then a breakdown of count by type. For the LCD buttons, assign one to drink the smallest available health potion, one to drink the smallest one that will heal you fully (which is what I assume the current "R"/"E" button bindings do), and similarly the other two for energy.
While the last one is the one that would take a little coding, it would be really awesome for those of us with lots of skills who covet the 9 and 0 keys for skills but still want to see our potion counts.