From lojban+bncCLTF8YDmFRDruL_nBBoEGLMHUA@googlegroups.com Fri Nov 26 08:12:40 2010 Received: from mail-pz0-f61.google.com ([209.85.210.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PM0ua-0000Xn-Jb; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:12:40 -0800 Received: by pzk7 with SMTP id 7sf743018pzk.16 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:12:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:x-beenthere:received:mime-version :received:received:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references:user-agent :x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-archive:sender:list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=KtYNfKaSl4rtKd+R1ax3D0I544I0YcmViaHLU5VzCqM=; b=646RywJbpelDKJ8N6lD2ryIbCFKr5hWVmkIZ3YAe4C6A5MeJYFMJCYFXm8tctyveeK 53oskj8cQy/PbuV0NpkkxVIs//SpKvCZ4XeA5Ti3aZzocJ/2rhvtFBwmlIfH/Avcml52 f2p7bGrGWTUNXXWhE4BSfE85fa4mWx5tjG6TU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:mime-version:date:in-reply-to:x-ip:references :user-agent:x-http-useragent:message-id:subject:from:to :x-original-sender:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list:list-id :list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xTTo5b9qE+Awa03Pd+hJJRm2nKiV+fcN1OVfD9y2G648meSFM9GD6jWNrCKLonZi3S Jr/S9osmf+ZcWdv3mShN4HJH5msoFnbue3H6croa18hvWaI5SrUY1/cCHUEOBQqRkQ/m Vk10iD7bLFt3O62IGhdz8EfL3PBmhY9QcsYy0= Received: by 10.142.56.11 with SMTP id e11mr84919wfa.58.1290787947606; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:12:27 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.142.249.41 with SMTP id w41ls4541044wfh.1.p; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:12:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.65.9 with SMTP id n9mr86827wfa.49.1290787946364; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:12:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by u9g2000pra.googlegroups.com with HTTP; Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:12:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:12:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101122023721.GY9301@digitalkingdom.org> X-IP: 182.177.199.107 References: <20101122023721.GY9301@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7,gzip(gfe) Message-ID: Subject: [lojban] Re: Random Lojban game idea, should be easy to code (at least at first) From: Ali Sajid Imami To: lojban X-Original-Sender: ali.sajid.imami@gmail.com 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-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sounds like a great idea. But i have one objection. This game seems geared towards experienced lojbanists, while it can be taken as a good teaching resource. However, if your intention isn't teaching, please ignore it. :) That said, I'd be willing to help out with this project, if it takes off. I sorta need to be given a part. I have slight experience in ruby on rails. I'm relatively free after 4th, definitely free after 24th. :) On Nov 22, 7:37=A0am, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > An idea that popped into my head: an RPG where the *sole* mechanic > is conversation. =A0Surrounded 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. =A0Have 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"). =A0They'll hint at this. > > Then you say some Lojban. =A0How well you do is based on: > > 1. =A0Does it parse? =A0If not, you lose. > > 2. =A0How many bad words does it contain? > > 3. =A0How many good words does it contain? > > 4. =A0The effect of relevant skills; perhaps you have high levels in a > skill that reduces the effect of bad words. =A0 > > And this results in a number, which is checked against the > difficulty of the task, and you either win or not. =A0What 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. =A0I > 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. =A0The 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/: =A0Our 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". =A0 My personal page:http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= lojban" group. 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