shared big screen support, perhaps using mobile versions for HUD UI?
Calgacus
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Just a vague thought, I guess other games especially on console do this already but I don't play much other than NWN so I don't know exactly. Imagine you and your friends get together at your house and play some multiplayer NWN on your laptops or tablets etc. But you have a huge awesome screen/TV and hook it to your laptop to use as your screen. Now your freinds are jealous and all leave feeling screen envy.
What if you could all share the big screen - maybe a little like BG style play where the focus of the screen doesn't change much so all the PCs could run to different sides of the screen. I guess a party leader would need to control party area transitions. Each players HUD display (side panel, spellbook, inventory etc) would appear on each players small screen but the big screen would have their pointer appear with mouse popup menus for right-clicks, I guess convos could appear on the small screens. I guess there would need to be a hotkey to allow the user to switch back n forth between screens to handle clicks.
Of course I'm not sure how many people would take advantage of it and I assume it would be a huge project and is probably not feasable but anyhoo, just a random idea.
What if you could all share the big screen - maybe a little like BG style play where the focus of the screen doesn't change much so all the PCs could run to different sides of the screen. I guess a party leader would need to control party area transitions. Each players HUD display (side panel, spellbook, inventory etc) would appear on each players small screen but the big screen would have their pointer appear with mouse popup menus for right-clicks, I guess convos could appear on the small screens. I guess there would need to be a hotkey to allow the user to switch back n forth between screens to handle clicks.
Of course I'm not sure how many people would take advantage of it and I assume it would be a huge project and is probably not feasable but anyhoo, just a random idea.
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