Enhancement request: display level number

[thSoft]

Sometimes, knowing the number of the current level can be useful to the player. It would be great if it was displayed either:

• always
• if a flag (e.g. show_level_number) is present in the prelude

[increpare]

I agre it would be useful for some people. But where to display it?

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Dénes Harmath notifications@github.com wrote:

Sometimes, knowing the number of the current level can be useful to the player. It would be great if it was displayed either:

• always
• if a flag (e.g. show_level_number) is present in the prelude

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[thSoft]

Maybe below the name of the game, center-aligned, with smaller font?

[david-pfx]

A level name that could be set in the script might be more useful. If set, it should display centered top (or bottom)

[thSoft]

Yes, I think that would be even better!

[smattiso]

Agreed, @david-pfx, level numbers can be arbitrary depending on whether you count message screens as levels, and there might be a use case either way. A string, meanwhile, can represent digits as well as text. The only difficulty then becomes; how do you show that text? What font do you use, and how do you align it? Some games already utilize the 5x5 pixel tiles to draw their own digits which they then place on the map on a new collision layer. This works when your levels are numbers, but becomes unwieldy if you want an entire font.

[increpare]

I think I'm ok with it as is for now (though I understand there are tradeoffs). Thanks for the feedback everyone.