Re: Flexible fantasy game engine entering testing: Overlord

From: David desJardins <desj@math.berkeley.edu>

Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Vincent Archer <archer@hsc.fr> writes:
> In other words, a new fantasy (no, yet another) PBEM is entering the testing
> phase.  My goals are to provide a generic, flexible, game engine that can
> be quickly and easily reconfigured into very different paradigms.
>
> The test world is a rough synthesis of everything from Atlantis, Lorenai,
> Olympia, Eldritch, and a smattering of other games.  The goal being, of
> course, to test as many different parts of the code as possible.

Making your game look so much like Eldritch is a minus for me.  It makes
the game seem unoriginal even when it's not.  And it's confusing for you
to use exactly the same (or very similar) notations and formats and
terms, but with a different underlying system.  It certainly makes it
harder for someone reading the two sets of rules (much less playing the
two games!) to keep everything straight.

I realize that all fantasy games are likely to share some basic
concepts, but surely there are other ways to represent horses, wheat,
coins, etc., than to use "[hrse]", "[whea]", "[coin]", etc.!  I think a
little bit of originality is called for.

David desJardins

References

Flexible fantasy game engine entering testing: Overlord
archer@hsc.fr (Vincent Archer)
Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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Flexible fantasy game engine entering testing: Overlord
archer@hsc.fr (Vincent Archer)
Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00:00 +0000