Just a quick thought, when there's already a full web-of-data out there,
why not use /real/ things in the game, real images, locations and so on?
Melvin Carvalho wrote:
On 20 November 2010 20:13, Toby Inkster <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:28:24 +0100
Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote:
1. Would each 'location' be a document or a resource? Web of
Documents vs Web of Resources?
2. Could we use foaf:image and dcterms:desc for the game pages?
3. How would you model the link on each page?
Sounds like a pretty awesome idea. I'd personally model it like this:
<#node1>
a game:Node ;
foaf:name "Dark Cave" ;
foaf:depiction <...> ;
dcterms:description "..." .
I'd say that game:Node is not disjoint with foaf:Document. That gives
you flexibility - in some cases a node might be a page, and in other
cases you might have several nodes described on the same page.
Links to other places could be accomplished using:
<#node1>
game:north <#node2> ;
game:south <otherdoc.xhtml#wasteland> ;
game:east <http://example.net/game#node9> .
The description itself would have more detailed descriptions of the
directions like "To the south lies a desolate wasteland.". Directions
you'd want would probably be eight compass, points plus "up", "down",
"inside", "outside".
Each node should probably also have co-ordinates (not in WGS84, but a
made-up co-ordinate system), along the lines of:
<#node1>
game:latitude 123 ;
game:longitude -45 .
This would not be used for gameplay, but to aid authoring new nodes.
You'd want to have your "north" triple link to a node that you could
plausibly reach by going a short distance north.
Hi Toby
Thanks for the detailed reply. That sounds excellent, exactly what I
was looking form
In fact compass directions (plus up and down) bring add a lot to the equation.
However most book based text games will have a description added to
each link, rather than simply directions to travel. Here's a quick
example from googling 'choose your own adventure' :
http://www.iamcal.com/games/choose/room.php
I think it would be possible to bootstrap some existing stories to the
model if we could expand the idea of game:north to have a link and a
description, in this way, which I was wondering about.
Longer term, I think it would be great to start a simple adventure
game in the classic style of 'the hobbit' or 'hitchikers guide'
text/graphics based adventures from the 80s, however with the twist
that game worlds could link to multiple servers, across the web,
allowing anyone to make a 'game withing a game', or web of games.
However, that's probably a greater modeling task, so I wanted to start
more simply to begin with.
So something like
<#action1>
a game:Action
dcterms:description "Jump on the Barrel"
game:destination <http://example.net/game/node10>
I'm pretty new to modeling this stuff, so not sure how much sense that makes?
I'm not sure how the rendering would work, but perhaps it's easy
enough in RDFa once we have a model.
I'd be happy to mock-up an interface - perhaps tonight!
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Toby A Inkster
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