Subj : Re: XTRN game Chess and J
To : LaRRy LaGoMoRpH
From : echicken
Date : Mon Nov 03 2014 01:38 pm
Re: Re: XTRN game Chess and JSON
By: LaRRy LaGoMoRpH to echicken on Sun Nov 02 2014
18:29:59
LL> Star Trek is an excellent game. I really liked the large exploration
LL> based spin off that's in the testing section on mcmlxxix's board,
I should ask him to remove that.
LL> pretty darn sweet for a demo. Honestly if you turned that into a
LL> multi-player game I think it could be pretty popular.
I almost started working on it a few weeks ago, but I couldn't decide what
direction I wanted to go with it. I'll have to think about what form the
multi-player aspect would take. Maybe I'll work on it at some point this
winter. Maybe not.
LL> Anyhow, I think Star Trek is one of the cooler new bbs doors out there,
Thanks. It's fun as a quick diversion, I guess, but a bit on the boring side.
I guess it was more of an "I wrote this sprite library ... now what do I do
with it" kind of project.
LL> The new Gooble Gobble is also a much improved game, my only complaint
LL> would be the way the controls behave slightly differently from pacman,
LL> where you can stall the character out. I hope you know I like your
I actually kind of like being able to stop the character, but I guess I forgot
what the real pac-man controls did and didn't allow you to do.
LL> the demo on the broken bubble and how excellent that game looks like it
LL> could be to me. If you ever decide to develop that Star Trek-esque spin
LL> off I think it could become something pretty spectacular.
Well, that game came before Star Trek. I think I just lost interest in it and
made a trimmed down arcade shooter thingy instead. I'll let you know if I
start working on it again at some point.
