Dreakon
22-09-2005, 01:43
Well, I finally got my hands on Fahrenheit and I basically played it non-stop yesterday. It is a very addictive and overall entertaining game. That said, I wanted to do something with it. I have been playing around with VB lately and I decided to make a little program with it for Fahrenheit. So thus, I decided to create the "Fahrenheit Launcher".
This program is a nifty little program which you can replace the desktop shortcut with. You can launch the game from it but it also contains a wealth of information too. I intend to have guides in this program, walkthroughs, general game information. Also, one of the selling points IMO, is the chat. I want to make a chat anyone with the launcher can enter. Why? Stuck somewhere in the game but dont feel like finding the site, logging into a forum, making a post and waiting for an answer? Well, I figure, you can just click chat, go into the chat and just chat away with any questions, comments or just plain old fun.
The launcher also contains a little news area that is often added to with the latest Fahrenheit news (updated by yours truly of course), so you can see it whenever you want to play the game!
Here is the layout of the program so far. There are many placeholders at the moment where I want stuff to be, and what is soon to come.
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8083/appimg3oh.jpg
The program is expected to be in the place of the game on your desktop shortcut, this way you get all the information/news you need before playing the game, every time. ;)
Why am I posting something that isnt done yet? Simple, I want peoples opinions before I go through all of this. I suspect most of the longer stuff (guides, walkthroughs) will take a while, so they will come in future versions.
I want your opinions though. Will you use this? What kinds of features would you be interested in seeing in this? Something wrong with the layout? Is this just a stupid idea to begin with and should I just forget about it?
This program is a nifty little program which you can replace the desktop shortcut with. You can launch the game from it but it also contains a wealth of information too. I intend to have guides in this program, walkthroughs, general game information. Also, one of the selling points IMO, is the chat. I want to make a chat anyone with the launcher can enter. Why? Stuck somewhere in the game but dont feel like finding the site, logging into a forum, making a post and waiting for an answer? Well, I figure, you can just click chat, go into the chat and just chat away with any questions, comments or just plain old fun.
The launcher also contains a little news area that is often added to with the latest Fahrenheit news (updated by yours truly of course), so you can see it whenever you want to play the game!
Here is the layout of the program so far. There are many placeholders at the moment where I want stuff to be, and what is soon to come.
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8083/appimg3oh.jpg
The program is expected to be in the place of the game on your desktop shortcut, this way you get all the information/news you need before playing the game, every time. ;)
Why am I posting something that isnt done yet? Simple, I want peoples opinions before I go through all of this. I suspect most of the longer stuff (guides, walkthroughs) will take a while, so they will come in future versions.
I want your opinions though. Will you use this? What kinds of features would you be interested in seeing in this? Something wrong with the layout? Is this just a stupid idea to begin with and should I just forget about it?