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Benoit · Aug 9th, 2005, 2:09 AM

Same old BS from massive-war, heh

Text-based games are cool, they actually require the work of reading instead of having your brain idle. And you can picture everything the way you think it is, leaves more to the imagination. Not to mention they don't need $500 video cards to run

Infinite Recursion · Aug 9th, 2005, 8:20 AM

I wanted to code an RPG a while back... but there are so many already out there and by time I sit down to code, I have about 30 different programs on my mind to write and the RPG gets backburned, over and over again.

RaceGT · Aug 10th, 2005, 10:17 PM

If he fully develops the text-based game until it's near-perfect, then that's the perfect starting point if he ever wants to take the game further graphically. I think someone else said it; he's going to need the perfect underlying workings of the program anyway, and starting just with text is the easiest way to get that part working as expected. I look at it as "the data-handling" part of the program, which if he's working with just text and data, is fundamentally what he'll be working on. Once he gets that working perfectly, it's in shape to take the graphics further if that is desired.

The guys who made Diablo (2) said all it was, was a Dungeon Hack clone with graphics. Perfect example.

D-Ferg27 · Oct 25th, 2005, 7:29 PM

how much do you wanna bet that massive war is comming back but with another name.

pal · Oct 28th, 2005, 5:45 AM

Rather than saying whether this or that is the best way to do.
I think you spent a great effort and time in creating your game.

Silvanus · Oct 28th, 2005, 5:54 AM

This thread is ancient. I don't know why it's been resurrected.

Komodo · Dec 17th, 2006, 4:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by massive-war

An open source project is like beating a really hard level in a video game.

You know, the level that you spend countless hours on, but can't beat it.

But, when you do, you fucken flip shit and go dance on the ceiling because you got it.

Well, good for you, it means nothing because you didn't get anywhere, but 16 hours down in your life timeline, a 6 pack, and about 33 bags of fun-yuns.

You beat the level (which I'm cleverly referring to as the open source project

), you move on to the next, and you simply don't realize that it's just a game and the world would most likely be better without it.

So, you complete the open source project, you realize that you totally owned that project, made it better, completed it, whatever, but you didn't RECIEVE anything from it.

I mean holy shit, why do something if you don't get anything.

I can't see a reason for me to go plant 4400 forks in my neighbors yard and spray paint "oink" on his windows, so why do it.

Sorry to bring this back up... but what the hell is a fun-yun?

DaWei · Dec 17th, 2006, 7:59 AM

This thread is over a year old. Please don't pull this crap with off-topic BS when you can simply fire up
Google.

Komodo · Dec 17th, 2006, 3:44 PM

Ahh... so that's what a fun-yun is... I hate crap like that, do people actually eat that?

EDIT: Admit it DaWei... you at least chuckled when you read that.

Aug 9th, 2005, 2:09 AM	#51
Benoit Expert Programmer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 548 Rep Power: 4	Same old BS from massive-war, heh Text-based games are cool, they actually require the work of reading instead of having your brain idle. And you can picture everything the way you think it is, leaves more to the imagination. Not to mention they don't need $500 video cards to run __________________ Johnny was a chemist's son but Johnny is no more, for what Johnny thought was H2O was H2SO4

Aug 9th, 2005, 8:20 AM	#52
Infinite Recursion Programming Guru Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3,464 Rep Power: 8	I wanted to code an RPG a while back... but there are so many already out there and by time I sit down to code, I have about 30 different programs on my mind to write and the RPG gets backburned, over and over again. __________________ http://jasonpowers.net "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

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Aug 10th, 2005, 10:17 PM	#53
RaceGT Newbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New England Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	If he fully develops the text-based game until it's near-perfect, then that's the perfect starting point if he ever wants to take the game further graphically. I think someone else said it; he's going to need the perfect underlying workings of the program anyway, and starting just with text is the easiest way to get that part working as expected. I look at it as "the data-handling" part of the program, which if he's working with just text and data, is fundamentally what he'll be working on. Once he gets that working perfectly, it's in shape to take the graphics further if that is desired. The guys who made Diablo (2) said all it was, was a Dungeon Hack clone with graphics. Perfect example.

Oct 25th, 2005, 7:29 PM	#54
D-Ferg27 Programmer Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 49 Rep Power: 0	how much do you wanna bet that massive war is comming back but with another name.

Oct 28th, 2005, 5:45 AM	#55
pal Programmer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Washington Posts: 87 Rep Power: 4	Rather than saying whether this or that is the best way to do. I think you spent a great effort and time in creating your game.

Dec 17th, 2006, 3:44 PM	#59
Komodo Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Scranton, PA Posts: 112 Rep Power: 0	Ahh... so that's what a fun-yun is... I hate crap like that, do people actually eat that? EDIT: Admit it DaWei... you at least chuckled when you read that.

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