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Wow... I hope it's going to rock

Yay! Happy Biirthday!

I don't know much about authoring interactive fiction but this seems amazing: http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html You write something like this: , press the "Go!" button and the application instantly translates it into a game that has all those things mentioned and that can be played right away. You can even make changes and press the "replay" button to replay the game with the changes taken into account.The announcement in a newsgroup: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.int-fiction/browse_thread/thread/f5919cf1b49badac/17791dfefeec46e0#17791dfefeec46e0

Also, this seems good for small examples, but I doubt making a lengthy game is very easy with this. The natural language will probably get in the way and having more formal structure would be preferable. But I think this could be a great way to start learning the basics of making IF games. At least I'm somewhat tempted to start doing that Note: also, when Zerobot is done (someday), you'll be able to play games made with this on these here forums since it compiles into Z-code

Why did you remove your signature? How the hell am I supposed to get back to the front page now?

Same here...

I watched all of those 28 minutes... minutes I'll never get back.

I've played a little but so far I don't like it that much.

Heh... that reminds me of how difficult the game is the first time. I did that too. There's a lot of that in the game. But for some reason I remembered all the tricks pretty soon now even though the last time I played it was many years ago.

I just tried the Desperados 2 demo. I don't know what you are talking about D2 turning into an action game -- it seems exactly like the previous one. In fact, I'm quite surprised how similar it looks, being 3D. If someone were to play it as an action game (mostly in the action mode), I think they would find the game to be quite crappy. But I think the action mode complements the tactical mode very nicely, and I've enjoyed it on the few occasions when I've had to do some shooting.

I also liked Commandos 2 a lot, but I did not finish it -- got bored eventually in a level with a big castle or something. I don't think it was much harder than Desperados, nor was it noticeably easier. At least that's what I remember.

I loved Desperados. And I kind of liked Robin Hood too, but they generified things too much and the graphics were kind ugly-ish. Gotta try that Desperados 2 demo.

Has anyone tried this game yet? From the same publisher(?) that gave us GISH. I liked it enough to purchase it immediately when the demo version ended, but it's not quite as fun as Gish was. One thing I dislike is being time-limited all the time. I usually hate that in games, but can tolerate it enough in Wik to enjoy the game.

I also enjoyed Highway 17 the most. Without any enemies it would have been boring though. I think the balance [in the H17 sections] was quite right.

Kaspar Jancis, an Estonian filmmaker & musician.

Man... I got to installdownload HL2 again... Forgot to make a backup after I screwed up Windows the last time.

There's also one called Eclipse (not to be confused with eclipse.org's the best ever IDE) that seemed kind of cool.

Wow! I've been kind of swamped with work so I haven't payed much attention to this. People shooting at helicopters? Insane.

I started writing an AJAX* TV guide (or is listing the better word?) that let's you customize which channels you see etc. and make your own personalised listings. I was thinking of doing drag'n'drop like http://brothercake.com/site/resources/scripts/dbx/ , but I realised that there isn't much need for it in reality so currently the personalised listing can be filled by clicking on programmes in the channel listings. Plus, the dragging code looks complex and since I haven't spent much time on this yet, I may take a look at it later. At first I'm planning to use it for channels broadcasted in Estonia only, but if I can make it flexible enough, I could make it international. That seems like too much of a hassle though. In the end, if I get that far, it could be so AJAX-ified that it's just a HTML page you download to your computer and the personalisation is stored in cookies. Right now I have a very early version, running on Apache Tomcat because the "grabbers" that get the listings from the channels' websites are written in Java (I've had enough of PHP for a few years now). Here's a screen: After doing a bit of searching, I found that there isn't a very easy way to get the listings, though. Some TV channels websites have XML syndication of listings, but it doesn't seem prevalent. A local channel even seems to obfuscate their web site to stop people from grabbing their guides (using seemingly random hashes instead of real dates as URL parameters -- it's possible that this is for another reason, but I have doubts). I wonder how all the current web TV guides are getting their data? Even if some channels provide XML feeds, they don't seem to advertise it on their sites. * AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And XML (I think) -- basically means some stuff is done in the browser (with JavaScript) and XML content can be fetched from the server without refreshing the entire page.

And you're just asking this question to feel stupid aren't you?

oops... I missed this post before... Still interested? I haven't worked on this thing meanwhile, but I'm in the process of putting new data files up (they are now split into smaller sections) But the data files are not available anywhere as such, but have to be created using XMLTV ( www.xmltv.org I believe) -- As I understand using the listings data scraped from channels' web sites (or whereever the various XMLTV scrapers get it) is ok for personal use, but sharing the files is not ok. So possibly I will make that thing available as a download if I ever finish it (you'd have to provide your own data files), or find other/legal online data sources for it.

Yes, I think part of the point is that games with stories have subpar stories. Of course there should always be games that are there just for fun and entertainment. Poker might be relevant in some way, but if so, it's the players who bring that relevance, not the game itself.

I've done everything on this list, but my completion percentage is 99,47% ... Is there something I'm missing? Perhaps I need to take over all the gang territories? Or date all the girls? Get all the jumps? (I've found all the jumps, but there are 3 that I haven't been able to complete and the worst part of it is that I'm not sure which ones they are)

I think Spafster is totally missing the point of this discussion (or circling around the edges of the point, or whatever), but that's possibly only the point as I see it and not the point as AndyB intended. Anyway, WTF?

Nah, everything pretty much sucks.