[aquaria] Gamepad improvements

[Andrew]

That could be confusing, especially if your last page is full (and isn't obviously the end of your recipes). Maybe if there was a separate counter somewhere showing how many recipes you had found out of the total (51?)

On 7/08/2010, at 8:03 AM, Dustin Voss wrote:

> I had removed the blank pages so that if the cursor is on a recipe and you change pages, the cursor won’t be floating on an empty page. But, instead, I can just move the cursor to the “Recipes” button if the page is blank.
> 
> On the other hand, at the start of the game, I found all those blank pages pretty annoying to flip through. How about, if you have got 3 pages of recipes, the game shows “Page 3/13” but if you go to the next page you wrap around to page 1 instead of a blank page 4?
> 
> 
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:14 AM, Alec Holowka wrote:
> 
>> Blank pages were left in to imply to the player that there are a bunch of recipes to be discovered. :)
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Andrew Church <achurch+aquaria at achurch.org> wrote:
>> >(Also, implemented recipe navigation and, of necessity, removed blank pages from the recipe book.)
>> 
>> Good call on the recipe navigation, but is there any reason you have to
>> remove blank pages?  The fact that there's commented-out code for that
>> behavior in the original source suggests to me that the current behavior
>> (with the blank pages) is intentional; I can't speak for Alec, of course,
>> but I have a feeling it would frustrate players not to know how many
>> recipes there are in total, especially given that there's an achievement
>> for finding all of them.
>> 
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