, but not his spirit...'
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:25:22 -0400
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Hi,
Yes, that works
: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:38:24 -0400
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Hi Dark,
Python is Python regardless if it is embedded in a program as a
scriptable module or you
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Hi,
Yeah, I know the feeling. There were a number of times I was aware of
something bad would happen, but I chose
Hi,
Yes, that works as well. Although, just my two cents, I think it is
better to manually indent/format your code rather than depend on a
third-party program for automatic indention. Far too many developers
today seem to gravitate towards IDES that automatically indent code,
have custom wizards
Hi Dark,
Python is Python regardless if it is embedded in a program as a
scriptable module or you write the next version of Shades of Doom. The
language and sintax carry over from program to program although the
classes and ffunctions available might be different. However, the same
basic rules
Hi Tom.
what you say about programming makes sense, and that might actually be
something I'd look into when my phd is finished, sinse creating an rpg has
always been a desire of mine.
for superhero powers though, I'm afraid mutants is precisely the sort of rp
system that can! handle just
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:25 PM
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yeah I really hate house of horror.
I manage to role the skills I need, I have luck on my side I am strong.
I have past all the traps and got the super weapons.
Now
Hi Dark,
True enough. Obviously your Mutants and Masterminds game is a more
complex game where there are lots of different stats to keep track of
and much harder to put into a gamebook in a satisfactory way as you
pointed out. However, the point still stands that generic stats don't
necessarily
Hi Tom.
By shear coincidence this actually ties in to a recent discussion on the
entombbed list.
Jason is speculating (ie, no official announcement yet so people don't start
getting over excited), about creating another entombed game but with more
stable code and some of the elements we've
Hi Dark,
Yes, Python is accessible although slightly more difficult for a blind
person to use. Unlike other programming languages Python requires
formatting and indention instead of braces, brackets, and alike to
seperate sections of code. If a blind user is unaware of how to
properly format the
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful
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Hi Dark,
Yes, Python is accessible although slightly more
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful
doom!
Hi Dark,
Yes, Python is accessible although slightly more difficult for a blind
person to use. Unlike other programming languages Python requires
formatting and indention instead of braces, brackets, and alike
' gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful
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Hi Dark,
Lol...I'm loving it. There is an issue though.
The seven-headed Cerberus can be defeated with the bogstoppers whether
youhave or have not opened
Hi Tom.
It'd be nice to have stats and such in the background and also jigger the
choices so that if you didn't have an item choices connected with it
wouldn't show up.
That's the way the books on the ff project work, and also what age of fable
does.
However obviously i don't have those
quite pleased people get to see them.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:33 AM
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From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:37 AM
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I've got some electronic copies of some proteus magazine gamebook things -
need
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:36 AM
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Hi Dark,
Interesting enough that's kind of what
search for it in notepad, etc.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
From: dark d...@xgam.org
Date: Tue, 16
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
From: dark d...@xgam.org
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:25:40 +0100
To: Gamers
Hi jacob.
I usually convert stuff to txt as well, for instance some of the lone wolf
resources and a lot of the background materials to chronicles of arborell
simply because adoby acrobat is annoying.
However, i've actually found that with the versions of the protius books I
have, you can
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:17 AM
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Hi Dark,
Lol...I'm loving it. There is an issue though.
The seven-headed Cerberus can be defeated with the bogstoppers whether
youhave or have not opened the chest, I believe
well if I could get all these books from jakob and dark and somehow
have all the stuff in html format so when I click things it will jump
to that point that will rock.
At 07:41 p.m. 16/08/2011, you wrote:
Hi jacob.
I usually convert stuff to txt as well, for instance some of the
lone wolf
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:17 AM
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Hi Dark,
Lol...I'm loving it. There is an issue though.
The seven-headed Cerberus can be defeated with the bogstoppers whether
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
hmmm I wish we had the code ffproject uses.
Ok you can cheat if you know the right number and as long as you
are not dead yet.
But its
: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful
doom!
well if I could get all these books from jakob and dark and somehow have
all the stuff in html format so when I click things it will jump to that
point that will rock.
At 07:41 p.m. 16/08/2011, you wrote:
Hi jacob.
I usually convert
: [Audyssey] New gamebook,The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
From: shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:14:34 +1200
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
well if I could get all these books from jakob and dark and somehow
have all the stuff in html format
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook,The horrible dungeons of dreadful doom!
From: Jacob Kruger bandi...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:41:41 +0200
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful
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where can I get all your books?
if you could upload the archive to me that would rock.
At 08:10 p.m. 16/08/2011, you wrote:
I'm
Hi,
Yeah, I know the feeling. There were a number of times I was aware of
something bad would happen, but I chose that option anyway just to see
what would happen for kicks.
For instance, the fire exit. I figured given Dark's quarky sense of
humor that instead of being an exit from the dungeon a
Hi Dark,
Yeah, I know. There is of course a certain amount of fun in doing your
own rolling and personal stat tracking as that goes back to the
classic gamebooks of the 80's and 90's when you purchased a gamebook
from the store and did your own stat tracking and dice rolling. All
the same today a
Well actually the fire exit is probably the only place in the book where one
random choice can kill you.
I really dislike gamebooks where it's a case of right or left door, right
your dead! and there's no clue involved, you just die, house of horror on
the fighting fantasy project site, and the
Hi Tom.
Well if I had the skills to script stats I'd probably do that myself too,
but as I don't it's easier to get players to do it, and because gamebooks
can be written without knolidge of programming, it does mean people like the
gm of chronicles of arborell, who's a truly amazing writer
Hi Dark,
Oh, I seem o recall a dcouple of other places where whatever you chose
to do could and would likely kill you. Remember the spelling door with
the goblins?
I couldn't figure out the riddle, and so ended up just going down
through the options one by one until I found the right one. That's
Hi Dark,
Makes sense. You are use to keeping track of your stats were some of
us, myself included, have gotten lazy over the years. It takes extra
work to take the dice roll, add any bonus points to it, divide by 10,
and subtract 2 etc. Its not complicated math, but if I can have a
computer
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:54 PM
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Hi Dark,
Oh, I seem o recall a dcouple of other places where whatever you chose
to do could and would likely kill you. Remember
Hi Tom.
well actually the calculation isn't too bad, just basic addition and
subtraction usually, and you can save yourself a lot of trouble by just
writing stuff down.
For instance, my character in mutants has an inteligence of 18 which gives
him a pluss four to add to anything using
Hey. I downloaded the zip file but where's the game book?
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 12:36 PM
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Hey. I downloaded the zip file but where's the game book?
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Behalf
HI Dark,
I suppose. Although, as you said yourself there are plenty of people
who would turn down a good gamebook adventure simply on the grounds
that he or she has to roll their own dice and keep track of their
stats. Its not such a big deal for me either if I have GMA Dice handy
and notepad,
: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful
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Hi Dareen.
Unzip the file, and then just open the index.html file in whatever brouser
and go on from there.
I thought I wrote as much in the readme actually.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: Darren Duff duff
Hi Tom.
well if you can script things, doing it does make sense provided it doesn't
create too much extra work.
Interestingly enough, this question came up in connection with darkgrue, as
someone people wanted Aprone to add some sort of generic stats system the
way the ff project books use
: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New gamebook, The horrible dungeons of dreadful
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Maybe I have downloaded the wrong thing... I think what I have is just the
game book maker
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Hi Darren.
Well you can download the dungeons book from
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8vq939
As i said to start, just open the inex.html file.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: Darren Duff duff
HI Darren,
If you downloaded the right thing you should get a file called
Dungeon.zip. If you unzip that to a place on your hard drive you
should get several html files and a readme file. To start the game
just click on index.html.
HTH
On 8/16/11, Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe I
Hi Dark,
That pretty much goes without saying. Yeah, I wouldn't want to be
stuck with a generic set of stats or rules either. I've played enough
RPG games and gamebooks to know that stats can be very different based
on story and plot.
For example, I would not expect a game like Sryth to have
yeah I really hate house of horror.
I manage to role the skills I need, I have luck on my side I am strong.
I have past all the traps and got the super weapons.
Now I kill the boss and die.
I guess I have to kill his weaker guy first but its tricky.
Worse still even if I do succeed I get killed
Hi.
A while ago I was having a discussion with a mad person on audiogames.net
calling himself Aprone, about the difficulties of creating a gamebook with
numbered sections to turn to when you suffer from a lack of eyeballs and cannot
therefore use things like spider diagrams.
With his usual
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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 7:23 PM
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Hi.
A while ago I was having a discussion with a mad person on audiogames.net
calling himself Aprone, about the difficulties of creating
Thanks Jacob, I'm glad your finding it fun.
I tried to make the deaths as humerous as possible, so as to give you at
least some compensation for dying and (theoretically), starting again.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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Thanks Jacob, I'm glad your finding it fun.
I tried to make the deaths as humerous as possible, so as to give you at
least some compensation for dying and (theoretically), starting again.
Beware
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Ok, just finished it off - after a few tries, and, excellent!
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body
Hi Dark,
Lol! Great job. I just downloaded this gamebook, played a few games,
and its great. Thanks for writing this funny adventure. Reminds me of
the old Choose Your Own Adventure stories from the 1980's. Does anyone
remember those?
In the Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks you were given a
Hi Tom.
I'm glad you like. as I said I began this as a simple project to test the
darkgrue program, but it sort of took off. Normally i'd include the sort of
minimal dice rolling and stats you see in something like the lone wolf or
fighting fantasy books, and certainly my next book will
Hi Dark,
Yeah, unfortunately other people tried to copy the CYOA format, but
only the original 14 books or so were any good. Once other authors got
into the act they didn't really produce anything to the same degree or
quality of the classic CYOA books.
Anyway, I figured you would get into dice
Hi Tom.
Well that was the intention, though I must confess I was quite pleased with
some ideas that turned up in the book, especially towards the end when I
actually was trying as much for disturbing as for humourus.
The next book which I've already started the bakcground on, is a much more
Formatted as a single RTF file? Dark, do you have an example of that for me to
take a look at? If they end up having that as a requirement, I'm sure I can
slap a converter together and add it to DarkGrue so you can still submit your
story.
Hi Tom.
Well that was the intention, though I
HI jeremy.
Just download last years competition entries from www.arborell com, and
you'll see.
My one concern with a converter is how it's going to stick in section
numbers, eg to enter the right door turn to section 43.
It'd have to actually number each section, print it, scramble the
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Hi Dark,
Lol! Great job. I just downloaded this gamebook, played a few games
Hi Dark,
Interesting enough that's kind of what I'd like to do myself, but
instead of writing a gamebook in straight html I'd like to code it in
C++ or maybe something simpler like Python and see how far I could
get. By using something like Python, for example, I could have it do
the rolls etc
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Ok, just finished it off - after a few tries, and, excellent!
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:36 AM
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Hi Dark,
Interesting enough that's kind of what I'd like to do myself, but
instead
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