Hi Martin,
If I understand correctly, you want the game to muddle up the words for
the player. The higher the player's lang skill the less muddled up it
will be.
I think this is a cool idea, the only other place I have seen something
like this is the Al Bhed language in Final Fantasy X, which was much
simpler. It simply substituted letters, like A=E, B=F or something, then
you would find objects that translate a letter. Your idea is much more
intriguing.
As for the code, I can make it a little more elegant by replacing the
block of "if lang_level == x" with:
if len(word) < lang_level*2:
new_words.append(word)
else:
start = word[0]
if lang_level > 1:
end = word[-1]
middle = list(word[1:-1])
else:
end = ""
middle = list(word[1:])
random.shuffle(middle)
middle = "".join(middle)
new_words.append(start + middle + end)
That does the same thing dynamically based on level. As for making it
more sophisticated, you could consider messing with the order of the
words in a sentence or something. Maybe at level 4 you can understand
all the words but they are in a random order requiring you to reread the
sentence to make sense of it, and levels above 4 will sort out the order
of the words so it takes less mental effort to work out what people are
saying.
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:43 +0200, "Martin B."
<spooky...@tbs-software.com> wrote:
> hi all,
> at first sorry for my english.
> In my free time i coding some small adventure game in pygame.
> Now i write some 'strange' stuff for it. Coz i dont registered in
> another mailinglist for gamedev i write my question here.
>
> My hero has a 'language' option. When he arrive into unknown island
> his lang is on level0. this level is increased after time. now i write
> some lang stuff for it but how to write [ehm] "more sophisticated" ?
> is this right word for it ?
>
> heres the ugly code for it.
> I know it need more work but this is my first idea how to do it.
> Im testing in shell for now.
> developing in Py2.7 on Arch.
> every comment is welcome. thanks
>
> #encoding: utf-8
> import random
>
> def MultiInput():
> ''' Pseudo multiline zadavani '''
>
> text = ''
> while True:
> line = raw_input('? ')
> if line == 'konec':
> break
> text = text + line + '\n'
> return text
>
> def Alcoholer(text, lang_level=0):
> new_lines = []
> for line in text:
> new_words = []
> words = line.split()
> for word in words:
> if lang_level == 0:
> txt = list(word)
> random.shuffle(txt, random.random)
> x = ''.join(txt)
> new_words.append(x)
> elif lang_level == 1:
> if len(word) > 1:
> start = word[0]
> rest = list(word[1:])
> random.shuffle(rest, random.random)
> x = ''.join(rest)
> new_words.append(start + x)
> else:
> new_words.append(word)
>
> elif lang_level == 2:
> if len(word) > 3:
> start, end = word[0], word[-1]
> middle = list(word[1:-1])
> random.shuffle(middle, random.random)
> x = ''.join(middle)
> new_words.append(start+x+end)
> else:
> new_words.append(word)
>
> elif lang_level == 3:
> if len(word) > 5:
> start, end = word[0], word[-1]
> middle = list(word[1:-1])
> random.shuffle(middle, random.random)
> x = ''.join(middle)
> new_words.append(start+x+end)
> else:
> new_words.append(word)
>
> elif lang_level == 4:
> if len(word) > 7:
> start, end = word[0], word[-1]
> middle = list(word[1:-1])
> random.shuffle(middle, random.random)
> x = ''.join(middle)
> new_words.append(start+x+end)
> else:
> new_words.append(word)
>
> new_line = ' '.join(new_words)
> new_lines.append(new_line)
> return '\n'.join(new_lines)
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> #print("""Pro skončení zadávání textu napiš slovo 'konec'.""")
> #text = MultiInput().split('\n')
> #print text
>
> text = ["Pokus o napsani neceho uplne blbyho co vypada jako",
> "rec totalne ozralych pobudu ale je to ve skutecnosti",
> "jazyk davno zapomenute vysoce rozvinute spolecnosti",
> "ktera kdysi zila pod upatim hor Ankhmorporku"]
>
> print('Original')
> print '\n'.join(text), '\n'
>
> print('level 0')
> print Alcoholer(text), '\n'
>
> print('level 1')
> print Alcoholer(text, lang_level=1), '\n'
>
> print('level 2')
> print Alcoholer(text, lang_level=2), '\n'
>
> print('level 3')
> print Alcoholer(text, lang_level=3), '\n'
>
> print('level 4')
> print Alcoholer(text, lang_level=4), '\n'
> s = raw_input()
>
