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This thing is my fault, if anyone has questions/nits/etc. The usual one is whether the code is somewhere. The short term answer is no, but I did pick out a nam

This thing is my fault, if anyone has questions/nits/etc. The usual one is whether the code is somewhere. The short term answer is no, but I did pick out a name and set up a repo for anyone interested to watch, if I ever get to that point: https://github.com/abathur/roomstead https://github.com/abathur/roomstead

actually_a_dog 5y ago
All in all, I like it. Gameplay is missing a few niceties that you see in slightly more sophisticated games (but, I see you listed LPC as a programming language, so I assume you know that). For instance, if the visible exits are north and south, I can't 'go north'. Instead, I just have to enter 'north' as a command. Likewise, I can't 'look at' a thing; it's just 'look <thing>'. It'd also be great to be able to 'take', 'get', and 'drop' certain things. On the plus side, I like what happens when you do 'report bug'. At one time, I also considered making a resume kind of like this, except my idea was to embed it as JS code inside a PDF document. The PDF version of the resume doesn't look very good, though. It has a mostly blank first page with just a title, header, and footer when I 'print' it on my machine.
- abathur 5y ago
  Interesting concept, re: embedding it in a PDF. Yes, the mechanics/mudlib are a bit sparse. It's stacked on top of a ~terminal JS library, but all of the ~MUD behavior is hand-rolled. It's a bit LP/LD-family-esque, but I've tried to completely exclude as many concepts (health, heartbeats, resets, classes, etc.) as I can get away with. (Though, if I abstract out and publish the ~game/mudlib layers at some point, I don't think I'd be opposed to it accumulating some features beyond my own golden path.)
Jaruzel 5y ago
Bug Report: On Chrome on Windows (on my PC at least) it auto scrolls up a bit too far, cropping off the top line slightly.
- abathur 5y ago
  Thanks for the reminder. I noticed this on Chrome on Android myself recently, but I didn't have the energy to pull on the thread at the time.
phkahler 5y ago
"read" should be available in addition to "look"
- abathur 5y ago
  "read" is already used in the blog-post rooms and in a few other places for narrower interactions. It does support "glance" as a synonym for "look".
softwarebeware 5y ago
Are you aware of https://ifcomp.org/ https://ifcomp.org/
- abathur 5y ago
  Hmm. I don't think so. Not consciously, at least. The site feels a bit familiar, and I would probably click on a link to it if I stumbled on it elsewhere, so I may have at least seen it.
  - unbalancedevh 5y ago
    Late to the party here, but -- if you haven't checked out other interactive fiction, you definitely should! This would fit right in. Also, btw, "examine" (or "x" for short) is a popular alternative to "look".

actually_a_dog 5y ago

All in all, I like it. Gameplay is missing a few niceties that you see in slightly more sophisticated games (but, I see you listed LPC as a programming language, so I assume you know that). For instance, if the visible exits are north and south, I can't 'go north'. Instead, I just have to enter 'north' as a command. Likewise, I can't 'look at' a thing; it's just 'look <thing>'. It'd also be great to be able to 'take', 'get', and 'drop' certain things. On the plus side, I like what happens when you do 'report bug'. At one time, I also considered making a resume kind of like this, except my idea was to embed it as JS code inside a PDF document. The PDF version of the resume doesn't look very good, though. It has a mostly blank first page with just a title, header, and footer when I 'print' it on my machine.

abathur 5y ago
Interesting concept, re: embedding it in a PDF. Yes, the mechanics/mudlib are a bit sparse. It's stacked on top of a ~terminal JS library, but all of the ~MUD behavior is hand-rolled. It's a bit LP/LD-family-esque, but I've tried to completely exclude as many concepts (health, heartbeats, resets, classes, etc.) as I can get away with. (Though, if I abstract out and publish the ~game/mudlib layers at some point, I don't think I'd be opposed to it accumulating some features beyond my own golden path.)

Jaruzel 5y ago

Bug Report: On Chrome on Windows (on my PC at least) it auto scrolls up a bit too far, cropping off the top line slightly.

abathur 5y ago
Thanks for the reminder. I noticed this on Chrome on Android myself recently, but I didn't have the energy to pull on the thread at the time.

phkahler 5y ago

"read" should be available in addition to "look"

abathur 5y ago
"read" is already used in the blog-post rooms and in a few other places for narrower interactions. It does support "glance" as a synonym for "look".

softwarebeware 5y ago

Are you aware of https://ifcomp.org/ https://ifcomp.org/

abathur 5y ago
Hmm. I don't think so. Not consciously, at least. The site feels a bit familiar, and I would probably click on a link to it if I stumbled on it elsewhere, so I may have at least seen it.
- unbalancedevh 5y ago
  Late to the party here, but -- if you haven't checked out other interactive fiction, you definitely should! This would fit right in. Also, btw, "examine" (or "x" for short) is a popular alternative to "look".