Re: StarTrek pbm game - Home made

From: lyle@MadVax.mo.ti.com (Lyle Murphy)

Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Appreciate all the favorable input.  You are all correct the game is free.
The only solicication would be for players to line up and play.  If I
decide to charge, I would seek a license from Paramount.  Does anyone
know of an e-mail or snail mail address to kick this off license discussions
or just commucication of intent for Paramount?  Anywat here is a little more
info on the game:

Well ... where do I begin?  Have you played a Core War type game in a
multiplayer mode in King of the hill (Koth).  I have not.  Though I have
looked at it.  The language is a little deep for the time I want to
put into it. I do not know what type of output this has as well.  Is it
just text? Or just results? Or text of the blow by blow?

What I have is sort of similar.  You would have a software program that is
written in a narrow parced language similar to Pascal structure that would
run controling your ship. Every week there would be fourteen turns on
your program.  You are given an ansi animated art and gifscii animation
blow by blow of the results.  If you were not destroyed, you could reprogram
you robot ship or continue to run on the existing program.  This is a
team based game so you're talking with team members on what to do during the
week .  So your input in the game is once a week (or not) for a program
for your robot ship and discussing with team members what they are seeing
and what should be done to win the game.  As a ship is destroyed, someone
on the team waiting list would take up a new ship on the team and come into
the game.  So you have player rotation.  You have minimal input on your part
with respect to the game as the rules and software are fairly simple and
great emphasis on team effort (or you could be like Captain Kirk and try and
do it alone).  The game would continue to run until you had a team winner.

I have already programmed one game but it was too slow and had no animation
just text.  It was way to slow and not very exciting.  This is a new
approach I'm looking at that is exciting and fast.

I have programmed in C, Basic, Pascal, and a host of special languages.
I am just starting to work on the code now. (This is really enjoyable and
is one of my hobbies.)

Well let me know what you think and tell me some of what you are looking
for in a game.  Also other games concerning things you like or dislike about
them.

__        __      __  ___              __        | lyle@madvax.mo.ti.com
  / /  __ __/ /__   /  |/  /_ _________  / /  __ __ | AGS Midland College
 / /__/ // / / -_) / /|_/ / // / __/ _ \/ _ \/ // / | Phi Theta Kappa
/____/\_, /_/\__/ /_/  /_/\_,_/_/ / .__/_//_/\_, /  | Nuclear Trained Navy
     /___/                       /_/        /___/   | Tread where others fear!

References

Re: StarTrek pbm game - Home made
s337186@student.uq.edu.au (Bradley Jayakody)
Sun, 13 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000