Hi Nicol,
And your point is? All you are doing is arguing semantics here without
any real understanding of the technical aspects of the game. Yes, it is
a maze. No argument about that. However, the maze is drawn on a 2d grid
so it is also a grid.
As a programmer I often use map, grid, maze etc interchangeably as I am
referring to the same thing. the level maps i create with my game engine
are drawn on a 2d or 3d grid so I can use the term grid or map to mean
the same thing. Your problem is that you are being too literal with the
terminology here.
I don't know if this is a language thing, the fact English isn't your
primary language, or what, but Americans are not that literal with
words. Many words in the English language can be used in other ways
outside of the strict dictionary definition for that word. What we say
and what we mean can be two different things.
Take a word like "cool." If someone in America walks up and says
something like, "you have some really cool shades," he means he really
likes your sun glasses. He doesn't mean "cool" as in tempature or
"shade" as in getting out of the sun. What he said and what he meant are
completely different based on context.
HTH
Nicol wrote:
HI all
I wish to bring up another interesting point, raul, our co-moderator made in
his sod walk through.
raul talked in his walk through about the shades of doom playing area as a
grid.
I politely wish to disagree here.
I call the shades of doom area a maze instead.
and except the fact that the playing area physically looks more like a maze,
I have another good reason why I am sure its a maze and not a grid. when i
played sod 1.0, I am not sure if the same will happen in version 1.2, but
when I played 1.0 I was busy fighting the boss.
you guys will certainly remember that back in version 1.0 you only had one
boss to fight.
anyway, I was looking all over for the boss because he teleported away from
me when I shot him so i was looking for him everywhere and I was running
into walls all the time.
and thus I used a cheet to blast my way through walls as i didn't had any
mines left and so it happend that I approached the most outer wall of the
maze.
so when i pressed the cheet's keystroke to blast through this wall a
standard, windows, message box popped up.
so I loaded my screen reader and this is what the message box said:
"you are trying to exit the maze."
the wall, of course, did not move.
but there you have the most solid proof that the shades of doom playing
area is indeed a maze shape.
certainly david greenwood put that message box there himself if the player
tries to blast through the most outer wall with a cheet, therefore david
greenwood, the creator of sod, calls the shades of doom playing area indeed
a maze shape.
but once again I will not expect raul to change that bit in his recording,
its interesting that raul sees the sod playhing area as a grid, but now you
all know that it is indeed maze shaped.
an example of a grid play ing area would be self destruct.
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