For some bizarre reason I decided to look at at various projects I have in varying states of abandonment... Plus people wanted me to post more threads, so, I dunno, I wonder if any of these are a worthwhile use of my time and am curious if you guys have any interest, but you probably don't, and I suck at programming, so whatever.

All these names are placeholders, of course.


Not Particularly Responsive to Prayers - A clone of Touhou 1: The Highly Responsive to Prayers (placeholder title, of course_, with some differences in controls and the particular abilities of the player. Also, I started implementing a World Map system, which was supposed to be kind of like SMB3.


Gems of Netrevale - This actually got the furthest, with about 23 levels until I lost interest. A side-scroller implemented in the console, it was kind of the sort of game where most of the challenge comes from mastering the controls.

At one point I had bigger plans for the console side-scroller than a simple game with a linear progression of levels... but then I scaled it down dramatically to test my ability, and then I lost interest entirely.


Ashdifjickle - Obviously a working title... This was going to be a game somewhat similar to The Adventures of Lolo, but turn-based, and then there were going to be items and multiple characters; basically I kept expanding the design, whereas the engine itself is basically just a simple turn-based walking "game". (The engine was far better written than what came before, though, having such nonsense as say, animations...)


NNN - A somewhat graphical ZZT clone of sorts; I had implemented a pretty large subset of ZZT-OOP, some commands that weren't in ZZT (mostly dealing with graphics), probably the most finished of these projects, but also by far the worst coded.

Now I'm all tied up with @GreyMaria.

I have... two. I didn't realize people used PMs so much on this site... now I feel left out.

Posted by GreyMaria

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Since people had to go and mention ropes,

what is your opinion on bondage?

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Well, I've never tried it, but it doesn't really seem like my sort of thing...

Posted by Gywall

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What comes to mind first with "fluffy"?

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Kitty-cats!

Hey, where did the results go? *shot*

Posted by Gywall

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I see you subtly changed the thread title. Think you're sneaky, huh?

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I guess I can't get anything past you, huh~

I think it comes down to which ones @Gywall posts in Since he's doing like half the posts on the board at the moment...

Congratulations! You have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands! (Unbelievable, isn't it?)

The layout looks nice, but the font size for "Posted by whoever" in quotes seems a little too small.

Posted by Gywall

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Can you connect this post to a famous ship?

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I don't know if the Gywall/Nicole ship can be called "famous", really.

Posted by GreyMaria

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Did you consider an actual ship?

Like perhaps the Titanic?

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I guess my sense of humor is being too obtuse again...

Posted by Liliana

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Are you happy that GM compared you to the Titanic, rather than, say, the Lusitania?

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The Lusitania was sunk by... oh my god, are you planing something?! =o

Posted by Marzen64

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Posted by GreyMaria

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The Titanic was sank by something large and cold.

Keep the warmth in your life and you'll sail the seas to eternity. <3

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Did you find that as horribly cheesy as I did?

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It was pretty cheesy, but still sweet I suppose. <3

Posted by Liliana

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What if I did have an evil plan?

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I would probably say "=o".

=o

Posted by Gywall

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Can you swim?

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Actually, yes... but I don't do it very often.

I caught Wario! You could at least have given these different names.

Posted by Kawa

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I'm gonna go with "something else". I have a similar problem as far as "large amounts of unfinished projects" goes, and it might be a good idea to combine forces, as it were.

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Perhaps... the problem is finding something we're equally interested in, though...

Posted by Kawa

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Oh and Labyrinth of Zeux, Megazeux's predecessor, was an ASCII platformer. Like MZX, it had font manipulation, though.

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You know, I could never play Zeux- I had it on my old computer with Windows 95, and it would crash the entire thing when I opened it... I had always figured it was like a ZZT clone, I didn't know it was a platformer.

Posted by Gywall

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Do you prefer hot water, warm water or cold water?

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Hot water. One of the reasons I don't swim often is because we have an outdoor pool, and even in the summer it's freezing.

Posted by Gywall

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Wait.. you have a pool.. as in a pool at home?

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Er... my family is a little rich.

(It's not like we have a mansion or anything though; pools are pretty common in Hingham)

Posted by Kawa

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Megazeux isn't a platformer (though there are several engines available to make it one) but Labyrinth of Zeux was. Caverns of Zeux, the MZX pack-in game, was a direct sequel.

LoZ also has a fan remake in MZX.

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Yeah, though I prefer ZZT for its simplicity, I've used MZX and know it isn't a platformer (by default)

Writing a platformer engine in ZZT is kind of a pain, I remember I wrote one once and couldn't get jumping to work right (you could keep jumping in the air), so I made the sprite pink and called it a Kirby engine. (This was like, 11 years ago now)

Posted by Gywall

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You realise you just made it easier for me to find you, correct?

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Yeah, but you'll probably think I meant Hingham England or something.