Re: 3rd Person IF??

[Nick Montfort <nickmontfort@my-deja.com>]

soleck@aol.com (Soleck) wrote, regarding Suspended:

> Haven't seen any other I-F games that even come close to the same
> concept, but I'd like to.  I'd write one myself, but I'm a greeeeen
> newbie, still way too damp behind the ears to even think about what
> a nightmare it would be to design.

It does seem daunting.

But I don't think it would really be nightmarish -- not as bad as I
first thought, anyway. The six robots are always in scope to the player,
and nothing else is. The player can only command robots -- not take any
other action. The robot most recently addressed is assumed to be the
recipient of the command. Except for reporting different things when
they 'look,' the robots are much like commandable characters in other
games. They have different abilities, of course, but that's the case
with other characters.

-Nick M.


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