1 Implementation

User interface

1.0.1 Main menu

The main menu contains a few different choices. The different choices are listed below.

* Connect

* Options

* Quit

* Credits

While the user is in the main menu there is music, while a rotating camera shows a 3D scene on the background.

1.1 Connect menu

Here is three options possible, listed below.

* Back

* server

* Login

* Connect

* New account

The first choice, 'back' is obvious and if choosen returns to the main menu. The 'server' list the default server, when clicking it, it opens a menu where new server profiles can be made. The third alternative 'Login' shows the default login and password for the specified server. The 'connect' button takes you to the character menu. 'New account' will make a new account for the specified server.

1.2 Character menu

The character menu will let the player continue the game by selecting an already created character, delete an existing one or create a new character. Every account has 5 character slots. It shows the default character in 3D, arrow buttons to browse thru the character slots, a delete button, create button and a select button which will start the game with the currently showing character.

1.3 New character

This menu is used when the player wants to create a brand new character, all settings for the character that can only be selected at character creation time are done here.

2 Step by step - 

2.1 Visible for the user

2.1.1 Game starts

When the user starts the game, the first thing that loads is an introduction movie. When the movie has ended or been canceled by the user the main menu will show up. Depending on the choice made by the user a sub menu will be entered, or the game exited.

2.1.2 Connecting 

When the user has choosen to start the game and connects to the server there are two possible scenarios. The first is that the user connected to the server due to a new character creation, and the second that the user wanted to continue an old game. In both cases the automatically updating system will start. When the update is completed the character will be created or the game continued.