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- ::[ MAKE MAP ]::
- ::[ GOOD LUCK ]::::
-
- So, you want to make your own murder motel map ?
- Well, first a lot of planning should be done.
-
- START:
-
- Try to adapt a theme for your motel. If your motel is going to
- be short-and-easy, perhaps now is the time to decide. As with
- anything, good things take time.
-
- You are given a range of 30-300 rooms (I'd suggest keeping it to
- less than 200 since larger motels are hard for users to map)
-
- Speaking of mapping, this is exactly must must be done.
-
- DRAW (on paper) the rooms of your motel. Planning for a NAME,
- and NUMBER for each of these rooms. Familiarity of the North
- South, East, West, Up, and down directions is of course helpful!
-
- Here's a sample map of a 41 rooms,
-
- ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐
- │ 13 ├─┤ 12 ├─┤ 14 ├─┤ 15 ├─┤ 16 ├─┤ 17 ├─┤ 18 │
- └────┘ └──┬─┘ └────┘ └────┘ └────┘ └─┬──┘ └────┘
- ┌────┐ ┌──┴─┐ ┌─┴──┐
- │ 31 │ │ 11 │ │ 19 │
- └─┬──┘ └─┬──┘ └─┬──┘
- ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐
- │ 32 ├─┤ 40 ├─┤ 41 ├─┤ 10 ├─┤ 04 ├─┤ 07 │ │ 20 ├─┤ 25 │
- └─┬──┘ └────┘ └────┘ └─┬──┘ └────┘ └──┬─┘ └─┬──┘ └────┘
- ┌─┴──┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐ ┌──┴─┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐
- │ 33 │ │ 09 │ │ 03 ├─┤ 06 │ │ 21 │ │ 26 │
- └─┬──┘ └─┬──┘ └────┘ └────┘ └─┬──┘ └─┬──┘
- ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌─┴──┐
- │ 34 ├─┤ 39 │ │ 08 ├─┤ 02 ├─┤ 05 │ │ 28 ├─┤ 22 ├─┤ 27 │
- └─┬──┘ └────┘ └────┘ └─┬──┘ └────┘ └─┬──┘ └────┘ └────┘
- ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐ ┌────┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌────┐
- │ 35 │ │ 38 ├─┤ 38 │ │ 01 │ │ 29 ├─┤ 23 │
- └─┬──┘ └─┬──┘ └────┘ └────┘ └─┬──┘ └─┬──┘
- ┌─┴──┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌─┴──┐ ┌─┴──┐
- │ 36 ├─┤ 37 │ │ 30 │ │ 24 │
- └────┘ └────┘ └────┘ └────┘
-
- Using the above map for instance, room #1
-
- -----------------------------------------
- NAME of room #1 : Front Porch
- Directions : N
-
- [N] North to room # : 2
- -----------------------------------------
-
- NAME of room #2 : Lobby
- Directions : SWE
-
- [S] South to room # : 1
- [W] West to room # : 8
- [E] East to room # : 5
-
- -----------------------------------------
-
- Just carry on the basic idea. Once complete, run the MAKEMAP.EXE program
- and begin the data entry. Again, once that's complete you can TEST the map.
- Run still another program TESTMAP.EXE.
-
- Once you are satisfied you made no mistakes, just COPY YOUR.MAP MURDER.MAP,
- and run MAKENEW.EXE. Its important to MAKENEW the motel if you make your
- own map since one map might have a different number of rooms, where its
- possible that a user will be in room 300, and have no way to escape from
- a motel that doesn't include such a room!
-
- Good luck, I must admit these docs don't tell much, experiment!
-
-