Hi Dark, Yes, adding several different random events can be fun. I recently was testing out my speech module for the Genesis Engine, using SAPI 5 support, and I wrote a simple adult interactive fiction game. The reason I chose to use my engine instead of a dedicated I.F. language is I wanted a greater degree of randomness in the game.
For example, you might be eating dinner with the female character and you ask her what she would like to have. One time she might reply white wine, another red wine, another something else. It makes it so the game never quite gets boring because every time you play she'll give different answers to questions. Not only that she'll change her hair style from game to game, she'll have on a different outfit, and so on. Its not a complex game yet, but its kind of fun seeing how many variations of the same scene the game can come up with from what color of lipstick she has on to pornographic descriptions after you get her into bed. Anyway, I don't intend to release the game to the general public, but those concepts will be applied to my future games in the future. As you said adding a lot of random events makes it so a game never quite gets dull or tiring because there are so many variations and random events that you won't explore them all in the first game and probably not the second. Cheers! On 1/4/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > How different are the events in the westward game? > > I confused that with the origan traile game people it has basically the same > theme, thoughf rom what I gather the random events in the original origan > traille as well as the resources you needed to keep track of were quite > different. > > It's amazing though how much fun a few sets of random events that you must > navigate can be. > > for instance the torchlight gamebook on www.arborell.comm uses several > tables to create a completely randomized dungeon, rolling for the room, > environmental hazard such as trap, type of monster, and treasure. > > Put these together and you've got a lot of different scenarios, even using > no programming and just what is possible with rolling D10 dice. > > I've actually considdered trying something similar in dark grue myself. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
