I was going to post this in the secret forum. but then I decided to get everyone's thoughts.
Man I just had a great idea. If you have access to the secret forum you should read my last topic and you will see my theory on randomly generated maps each play. Well what if we took that concept, same kind of grid based system. And applied it so someone could simply edit a text file which the game would read and load the map from. Something like this.
These are decimal numbers not hex.
11 20 08 14 03
15 19 03 04 05
18 01 08 03 01
12 06 13 17 12
01 03 04 20 02
The game would read the text file (See here (http://www.swbfgamers.com/index.php?topic=4499.msg43827#msg43827).) and load up the grid squares based on it. Of course ideally you would want a program to edit the text files but I can not imagine that being to hard to make. This would also allow macs to make maps kind of.
Thoughts?
HOLD UP!!! You said let macs make maps?! Do explain!!!
I like this.
A lot.
I'm imagining a lot of things could be configured in such a way. (Pretty much anything in the lua.)