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IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level
Thanks to ShackNews for pointing to the impressive technical feats showcased at the unofficial IF Quake page, which bills itself as "...a port of id Software's Quake 1 engine to the Inform programming language." The site includes riveting in-game screenshots, and the FAQ page has important info on bugs with this genuinely playable, downloadable Alpha release, noting: "IF Quake interfaces directly with the Quake engine, which was obviously not designed for [this advanced] output. The errors you see related to audio and OpenGL are due to the fact that the engine is being tricked into thinking it's running normally." Rumors that John Carmack will be switching Doom 3 to this impressive new engine are yet to be substantiated, however.
"IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level"
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HuH? If it does, what? What then!?
Damn Campers!
now if only they can make the text 3D.
I would like some benchmarks as well..
- what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
... You might be eaten by a Shambler.
i am a soviet space shuttle
You are in a room with many exits. You see a rocket launcher.
:)
>Pick up Rocket Launcher
Rocket launcher picked up.
>Look.
You are in a room with many exits. You see player X leaving via exit number 1.
> Go to exit number 1.
You are in a room with many exits. You see player X.
> Fire Rocket Launcher at Player X.
Player X gibbed.
--- It's not my fault this post looks redundant. I just type too slow.
This is obviously an April Fools bit. I mean, it says right here that "all screens were taken on Mac OS X running Zoom."
A ground-breaking new game ported to OS X? Yeah, like anyone's going to believe THAT! Better luck next year, simoniker!
(PS: I own a Mac so I'm allowed to make these jokes)
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
I contend that it is impractical, and quite possibly impossible to effectively play an FPS game using only text.
BANG! You're dead.
Shoot the red guy with what?
With the BFG.
Do what with the BFG?
Shoot the red guy with the BFG.
The red guy is no longer in the room with you. You see exits to the north and northeast. You hear a buzzing noise to the northeast.
NE
You ran into the red guy's Rocket. Your innards are splattered everywhere.
Hit space to respawn.
Will this new version support RFC 3514? The original one didn't and that's been a major barrier to adoption in the corporate world.
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
> I see no need to have the entire day of news completely ruined...
/. before.
Neither do I. That's never happened on
We don't do no farkin' around these here parts, buddy. What site d'you say you was from? A good ol' fashioned Slashdottin'll fry ten servers before breakfast and still have time to read the comics. I don't think any fancy-pants farkin' can do that, boy.
"A witty saying proves nothing." --Voltaire
Okay, I had just finished telling my friends that, "Hooray, It's April 1st. Believe nothing. If your mom dies, it's just a prank." And then I see this story on Slashdot, and for at least 30 secs, I believe it is real. I was thinking to myself, QUAKE in Inform? The sites were Slashdotted, and then it hit me--YOU COULDN'T DO THAT WITH INFORM!. So thanks, Slashdot, I've been bamboozled already.
porp
btw, I know Inform and you could, in theory, make some serious programs, but I'm curious, what are the limits of such low level languages?
Cheater!
*grumbles about wall-hacks*
Rumors have already been heard that the Duke Nukem Forever team is eagerly waiting for this engine to become available.
Multiplayer is still just a puppy, but its coming together nicely. There still is a problem with excessive spawn camping, and its in debate right now whether or not the software should prevent it.
One guy started using voice recognition to play, which was quite a riot to listen to. As we grew more comfortable with the game we came across some other oddities: if you are a good typer and become familiar with the commands, it plays pretty much like the original quake. We even hooked it up so we had a team of IF players versus a team of graphical players, and the IF players won!
We've also receieved a lot of encouragement from a few visually impair folks. They complained about the lack of computer gains accessible to them.
Keep your eyes open for Multiplayer mode, it shoul d be a big hit. Depending on the ultimate success of the project, there are talks about working on Counterstrike next.
I think someone fragged their webserver...
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
editors want to play jokes? time to start modding the "First Post!"s up to +5 Informative
No doubt! I was thinking this might just be more vaporware until I saw those screenshots; Very crisp graphics!
And of course, the imaging engine rivals that of some of the most advanced systems ever created.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
April fools!! We fucked your server!
Read jack phelps dot net
I ported Quake II to INTERCAL years ago. I claim the first use, in a FPS, of "COME FROM" and colored lighting ;-)
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Yes, it is.
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
Actually, it's:
> Fire Rocket Launcher at Player X.
Rocket misses.
> Fire Rocket Launcher at Player X.
Rocket appears to hit Player X, but Player X reappears a few meters away, unscathed.
Player X kills you.
"OMG FUCKING LAGGG!!!!"
Room: Slashdot Main Page
Directly in front of you are several stories. You notice a story about Quake with the notice 'Read More' beneath it.
>click notice
Room: Weekly Obfuscated Quake Story
You are now in an area that seems vaguely familiar. You immediately notice several trolls that are already attacking both the Quake story and a purple dinosaur.
Your score is currently +5 moderator points.
>attack trolls with mod points
You use all of your moderator ammo on the trolls, taking out a handful. There are still a few trolls left, but they leave you alone. The Quake story is now being protected by sensible readers, but the purple dinosaur is a hill of beans.
You see an opportunity for a karma kit. You see a notice marked 'Reply'.
>hit reply
You now see a Quake story with your post listed near the bottom, but in front of the trolls who are now attacking each other. Two moderators enter the room, closely followed by an Anonymous Coward and two morons who don't know how to read.
>hit submit story
Your post has drawn the attention of the others in the room. The faint smell of flamebait seems to be coming from just below your post. Five trolls have suddenly come back to life!
>attack flamebait with witty reply
Your witty attack has shot down one of the non-reading morons. One of the moderators takes care of the Anonymous Coward - he runs off to foul up some other room. The other moderator leaves behind a karma point.
Victory is yours!
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...some friends and i did something like this several years ago, but sicker. we used to run a MUD (which is sadly defunct now, but was called Powerstruggle for all those of you who fancy a google), and we had a "virtual mud" system within it. as in, a system you could use, while in the mud, and as though you're immersing yourself in a (textual) virtual reality, you end up within a different system, with different stats, your commands routed to the virtual mud, etc etc.
:>
the first application of this was, in fact, to reimplement doom as a text-based virtual environment within the mud, with its own stats, weapons, maps, and so forth. it worked splendidly.
what started as a bit of fun, we then reimplemented a different mud within this virtual system. it was a simple one, so it wasn't anything huge to do.
then, it was abstracted a bit to allow other muds to run under it. so we gave homes to orphaned muds, which were playable as virtual muds within our mud.
and then even worse, it got extrapolated so other sorts of games could be written under it. last i remember, someone had implemented the Magic:The Gathering card game under this system.
ah, muds. back when we all had time to goof off and spend 16 hours a day coding, but not on our CS degrees. having said that, my mud work got me my first two jobs rather than my degree, so things sometimes work out in the end
You cannot get ye flask!