First, thanks again for your comments.

It appears that the majority wants to play in windowed mode anyway, so screen resolution should not be changed, I guess.

@MoD: hmm I don't know this method yet, I need to figure out that now. Or maybe I'll find any other way to achieve the wanted effect.

In this case, it would mean that windowed => original size (no scaling), and full screen would just be double size (actually, 4x size). I'll try just to make the program draw a square of 2x2 pixels where every pixel was before, thus scaling it without interpolating.

Actually, with a screen resolution of 1280x1024 (like I have) I could even try 3x3 squares, but as there are enoguh people that use 1024x768, I'll stay with the double-size thing.

MoD, was your egg search successful? ^^ I won't spoil it here, though.. =D

EDIT: Ok, thanks for your hint, Monkey o' Doom, it didn't take long to figure out how it works. Now I've made it like this: the game checks how often the 400 would fit into the monitor width (so think in a screen res of 1024x768... 400 can not be put in 1024 more than 2 times), and according to this, the window's width will be set (to 800 in the 1024x768 case). Its height will always be 0.75 times its width to keep the aspect ratio.

Now full screen and windowed mode will not differ from each other, except from the black outline full screen mode always has.

When it comes to screen resolution you should only worry about supporting two, 800x600 and 1280x1024, those two combined make up for about 90% computers.

I don't think should should have to redraw everything larger, I just think that having a window mode will make the smaller size less..I dono..wastefull.  This is another suggestion, and it's not something you should have to add unless you want to, but I really hate text games because I never know what commands that are available.  Maybe having an option to display somewhere all the available commands so we don't have to always type /help only to have those commands disappear whenever we do anything else.

I understand why it's possible, it may not be prudent, it was only a suggestion.  After all your target audience is the type of people that enjoy text adventures, which doesn't include me, and I understand that when it comes to features you have manage what needs to be there and what is just extra fluff.  I think it's a good idea to allow the alternate spellings for the reasons you've stated, and while I don't like these games much that doesn't mean I won't play it.  I like to make games myself so I enjoy playing other's games as they're building them, seeing what they change/add and why, it's a learning experience much like seeing all the steps people go through on these forums with their art.

Being able to write music for your games, that's one skill I'm quite jealous of.

Hey, I've heard that!

*hides*

Bút.. err... *cough* What is this musik anyway? I don't know what you're talking about =P

@Shark (and topic): I haven't seen jal yesterday because I wasn't on irc, but I think I'll catch him later on.. and then we'll see. But anyway - at least I'm not in a hurry ^^

Ok let me wipe the drool off my compy...

( I don't need riddilin)

Ok well i got the rough room text done.

But Jalonso and HD are the only ones to see it yet...

Damn what merry men we be!

Yeah, I suppose it would be better. I'll still have it in my mind, though, so if it appears like a really good deal, why not include it...

Also, I now know what I do with the "turn" commands. I just make it check the first letter, the rest is irrelevant... so you could also write

turn r... for right... or maybe turn riiiiiight

turn b... for back... or maybe turn bread (just if you thought that it could make sense...)

turn l... for left

Half the fun of testbased games was typing
go northwest
only to have it tell you "You can't exit northwest. Exits are north, west, and three degrees off the port-bow"
and then you'd go
go three degrees off the port-bow
and it would say "What? how can you DO that? I don't get it."
so you'd say
turn three degrees off the port-bow
and it would say "A goblin pees on you from the roof. You contract a fatal disease in a matter of seconds and die a horrible and tragic death. As you're dying, you see a light at the end of the tunnel, and head toward it. As you get closer, you realise it is a door. Going closer still reveals it has a lock. Your memory tells you that you dropped a key when the goblin peed on you. Exits are back and forward"
go forward
"you can't, the door is locked, and you don't have the key"
go back
"You wish. You're dead, fool, there IS no turning back"
quit
"Quit WHAT? You've already quit life."
quit game
"You already are dead. You can't quit life twice."
ressurect self
"You ressurect yourself by tasting the light at the end of said tunnel. You're so shocked that it worked that you have a heart attack and die again. There are no exits, ctrl-alt-delete does not work, and there is one word in the whole english language that will make this game exit. Better start trying."
BANANAPHONE
"You're an idiot. That one word that will quit the game is no longer an english word, but one written in heiroglyphics"
download heiroglyphics text package
"You wish."

And SO, ad infinitum.