From lojban+bncCK30vq5WEOWup-cEGgSggiQ7@googlegroups.com Sun Nov 21 18:37:40 2010 Received: from mail-px0-f189.google.com ([209.85.212.189]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PKMHh-0003XS-19; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:40 -0800 Received: by pxi19 with SMTP id 19sf517733pxi.16 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:received:received :received:received-spf:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version:user-agent :x-original-sender:x-original-authentication-results:reply-to :precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive :sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-disposition; bh=4XFvqVVFYl639D20ysIJk0cgpfi3r72jyBNGExaol/o=; b=nC28Lqjo7PCnCzwc0OuFJ0jrmwg6e++zNyIyZwqbEMU2BRNLtd3o7OEub20GCytU+k riAzXhBWA58h3/MlwEg0C8zkC8br+crV7zpbbjqtBg5STa+rvyjaIjYdQcinZ+70//2O +We+ijVot8JXpVIfGb0j5YSpDmCDAJNUeXCZg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:mime-version:user-agent:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; b=wOosyFT0YFQdkkgeF3SZtrXDcadq2PZDVxxs0aiA59DiXEsnL91G5R0IT3CiqE/I+d qIEGG3HsYNfiKqJKBJG4qjqZajCL/Fo2TnK134qGO63ygMmC+DmyJlXIG5xZv8nSNGgu Q2poMH+XpZR4+8/xg2Ual6gaEZhu4bh7bKo7s= Received: by 10.142.150.13 with SMTP id x13mr205686wfd.6.1290393445678; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:25 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.142.6.9 with SMTP id 9ls271761wff.3.p; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.83.1 with SMTP id g1mr3235634wfb.35.1290393442163; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.83.1 with SMTP id g1mr3235633wfb.35.1290393442139; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org (digitalkingdom.org [173.13.139.234]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTP id n6si6781363wfl.7.2010.11.21.18.37.22; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of nobody@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) client-ip=173.13.139.234; Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PKMHR-0002mm-GB for lojban@googlegroups.com; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:21 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PKMHR-0002mL-B3 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:21 -0800 Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:37:21 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Random Lojban game idea, should be easy to code (at least at first) Message-ID: <20101122023721.GY9301@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Original-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of nobody@digitalkingdom.org designates 173.13.139.234 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=nobody@digitalkingdom.org Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline An idea that popped into my head: an RPG where the *sole* mechanic is conversation. Surrounded by a war-torn world, you, the character, took up ... the pen (or the tongue, really), to make the world a better place by convincing people to get along. For a first pass, all that would really be needed (besides some plot and quests, perhaps starting in childhood as you learn how good you are at persuiding people) would be a Lojban parser and some counting. Have each person have a personality based on what sorts of words they dislike (offensive, too high-brow, too low-brow, etc; I would expect young children to nu'i or maybe even jai with "what?"), and have them expect/prefer certain words or phrases based on the context. For example, if you are mediating an argument between two kids over a slice of cake, they're going to expect you to say {titnanba} a lot, and maybe {vudypai} ("fair"). They'll hint at this. Then you say some Lojban. How well you do is based on: 1. Does it parse? If not, you lose. 2. How many bad words does it contain? 3. How many good words does it contain? 4. The effect of relevant skills; perhaps you have high levels in a skill that reduces the effect of bad words. And this results in a number, which is checked against the difficulty of the task, and you either win or not. What happens if you don't is sort of an implementation detail; I imagine that you can just try again, with a hint as to what you did wrong, but it gets harder. (As an aside, I imagine there would be a skill to highlight good words, and it would become less effective the more hard-core the situation was, so it would stop working unless you kept it up.) At this level, the game doesn't try to check semantics at all. I imagine a competent coder could write this up, with a *very* skeletal "plot", in a few hours. Bonus points for making it web-based and having the thing store the text people have generated for later review. The point here basically is to give people an excuse to use the language, with some slight structure that rewards performance (by continuing the story) and forces improvement in skill (cuz eventually you meet the dude that *really* likes {nu'i}, or whatever). -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en.