From lojban+bncCK30vq5WELbQ7PEEGgQL6VDY@googlegroups.com Thu Aug 04 16:16:18 2011 Received: from mail-yi0-f61.google.com ([209.85.218.61]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp79E-0004aJ-8U; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:18 -0700 Received: by yie12 with SMTP id 12sf3366586yie.16 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type:content-disposition; bh=D9rnR0brzaNmpyetCV0HMyKx16bxBte/7dRfMPEQo08=; b=NjkkvGYoQ0hVGnuEJtvuLJu8e3wTdBub2WZ1L7E28O6qTl0v4n45GTg0hk8D+kBH3k dl56XWEoZ8EZPx2autwrdx4ZJc6+4WzsZgTD3Yg2YRCV3xGy0ETzfYvAIXf+sB2JmNR4 ZOABrZKDQDjEfsg3MVXgwuPRyTfYaN4578DDo= Received: by 10.100.26.11 with SMTP id 11mr108820anz.25.1312499766033; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:06 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.231.179.157 with SMTP id bq29ls1202995ibb.2.gmail; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.133.197 with SMTP id i5mr800129ict.50.1312499764876; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.133.197 with SMTP id i5mr800128ict.50.1312499764867; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org (digitalkingdom.org [173.13.139.234]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l1si11742263pbi.0.2011.08.04.16.16.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:04 -0700 (PDT) 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 1Qp791-0004aF-9D for lojban@googlegroups.com; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:03 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp790-0004a6-JH for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:16:03 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:16:02 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Random lojbanquest noodlings Message-ID: <20110804231602.GD22654@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 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 https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg5wbmjw_12fjmvcm for background. It used to be on the MUD, but I got tired of implementing that. I think it would be pretty easy to do it as a web app. Anyways. I was thinking randomly today that the problem with Lojbanquest has always been motive; it's *only* about monster-killing, basically. Some random ideas I've had more-or-less related to that - rooms have various connections that are non-Euclidian (connections to words that differ by one letter, connections to the same selma'o and (most importantly) connections to the next-most and next-least common word) - monsters get harder in less-commonly-used-word rooms - random bosses; when you try to go to a room it warns you?; bosses are much harder - Key Idea #1: Rooms only drop the word associated with the room name, which forces exploration to be able to make whole sentences - Key Idea #2: A special/rare treasure is magic *sentences*; if you have all the elements of the sentence, the attack is *MUCH* more powerful. Using these is essentially required for bosses and the higher end rooms, let alone a boss *in* the higher-end rooms. But what if your magical sentence needs "zajba"? Well, you'll have to get to the zajba room, and defeat something. Major incentive to explore. -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.