Re: Just spent 5 hours bug fixing HLA Adventure (my head's about to roll off!)

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:51:46 GMT
"Jim Carlock" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:I was thinking of a whole host of synonyms that would map out
:to one of the other ten directions. Keep the ten directions
:simple and provide a million synonyms to map out the directions.

Synonyms are very important, and in spite of the fact that I try to use
them liberally, I often got complaints because I had not included some
user's preferred choice. For example, in "Monster Rally", it is necessary
to load a firearm with a bullet. As synonyms, I provided "ammo", "lead",
"shell", and "silver". However, one user got upset because the parser did
not understand "load firearm with round".

On the other hand, limiting movement to a small subset of the compass
points is far too restrictive. For example, suppose I want to do a "lady or
the tiger" routine, by having two (or more) doors in the same wall?

:Depending upon how much time you want to put into it, alot of
:directions will end up with a simple "You can not go that way,"
:until you figure out what neat description or movement you'd like
:to put into place.

Of course, but you're talking like I am trying to write a game from
scratch, rather than to improve an existing one. You could help me a lot
more, if you would cite specific examples from Elsinore, and suggest how I
could improve them.

-- Chuck
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