1807. Tadbot (pcp0010451887pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net) – 27 Sep 2004 02:28:37 [ Tomor Da ]

Sweet! I finished NoAbToB a couple weeks ago, it was excellonte. I was surprised at how coherent it was, since I was expecting some sort of stream-of-consciousness deal. Although I did notice a few typos and editing debris in the novel. Can't wait to read the new one.
Don't forget, a picture's worth 1000 (or 10,000, depending on with whom you check) words.

I'm tempted to do a nanowrimo, but I've already got too much on my plate -- maybe once Half-Life 2 comes out and I've translated the Codex Seraphinianus.

Is the Escape level Choochu Shuba based on the character from the novel, or vice versa?

1806. Tom 7 (h-67-101-138-222.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 25 Sep 2004 22:28:32 [ FLAMING TEXT ]

Yes we are here!

1805. Anonymous (ki-proxy1.kos.net) – 25 Sep 2004 20:23:42 [ FLAMING TEXT ]

hello hello hello hello are you there say hi!!!!!!!!!!

1804. Anonymous (ki-proxy1.kos.net) – 25 Sep 2004 20:22:37 [ FLAMING TEXT ]

hey any body out there>

1803. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 24 Sep 2004 16:36:48 [ CSD Logo Submissions ]

Well, it only has to be a recognizable shape!

1802. Andrew (yale128036074252.student.yale.edu) – 24 Sep 2004 15:15:38 [ CSD Logo Submissions ]

People will be all like "HUH?????". Remember, the logo has to work for both idiots and savants.

1801. Andrew (yale128036074252.student.yale.edu) – 24 Sep 2004 15:14:20 [ CSD Logo Submissions ]

I think it is too subtle.

1800. happiness (user-12lclgq.cable.mindspring.com) – 22 Sep 2004 22:44:22 [ NEW: Album-a-day #18 ''Fake Mars'' ]

".....Phil hasn't actually released any music as Mt. Eerie yet...."

i know that was an old post, but there are 2 vinyl only mt eerie records. if you use soul seek, add "nathanwaterman" and you can download them from me. or phil sells them at shows.

1799. Max (ce-web2.wesleyan.edu) – 22 Sep 2004 17:47:00 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

Cool, then you could use hearts instead of bullet points.

1798. Tom 7 (h-67-101-136-30.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 21 Sep 2004 22:29:34 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

max, that is almost accurate tonight

1797. Tadbot (pcp04155722pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net) – 21 Sep 2004 15:52:52 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

Thesis topic: Using Recursion to Determine This Thesis Topic

1796. Max (ce-web2.wesleyan.edu) – 21 Sep 2004 13:18:41 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

N*SANO

1795. mike (toplap.pc.cc.cmu.edu) – 21 Sep 2004 10:07:52 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

so what's your thesis topic?

1794. Arthur (ip102-121.introweb.nl) – 21 Sep 2004 03:47:52 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

Orktu sukxs! Like I mean, I am a member now for some months and NOTUNG HAPPENS!`

1793. Tom 7 (128.2.203.136) – 20 Sep 2004 16:48:42 [ News: ESCAPE ]

Triage is used in (emergency) medicine to refer to the process of prioritizing which people to help. The 'tri' refers to the the three classes: those who are likely to die no matter if they are given help or not, those who are likely to live no matter if they are given help or not, and those for whom help is likely to make the difference between life and death. (The last category gets help first, of course!) Here I mean it to provide an initial survey of which levels are most worth looking carefully at for inclusion in an "official" collection of the best levels (coming soon).

1792. Tom 7 (128.2.203.136) – 20 Sep 2004 16:44:06 [ News: ESCAPE ]

Yes, it won't let you use apostrophes in your name because that's an SQL escape character. Maybe I can come up with a workaround for this at some point.

I have plans to implement your second suggestion.

Impure / Broken / Censored is for levels that are either a joke (modern art), exhibit some bug in the game, or make use of unspecified behavior (which shows up as a warning with yellow and red stripes in the editor). Incidentally, I think that your self-destruct panels and binary choices both belong in here, since they have panels that target themselves or adjacent panels. This category isn't necessarily bad (for instance I think Claustrophobia is a great level), but I can't guarantee that panels will still work that way in future.

Sophomoric is harder to define, but as I was adding a bunch of levels made by kids in a class I tought many years ago, I noticed that there were a lot of levels that hardly constituted puzzles at all, and that those typically aren't very fun to play, so I separated them out. Levels that are trivially easy or are just drawings will probably go here.

I'm not sure whether these categories are a good idea or not in the long term, or whether levels should end up there by some voting process. (I do intend to have levels with warnings automatically deposited in the impure dir, though the editor also needs to be a bit more clear about the consequences of making levels with warnings!)

1791. Anonymous (cache-loh-ab01.proxy.aol.com) – 20 Sep 2004 14:35:57 [ FLAMING TEXT ]

hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaaha

1790. Rory O'Kane (auc231-34.aucegypt.edu) – 20 Sep 2004 07:58:16 [ News: ESCAPE ]

I'm wondering. What qualifications does a level need to have to get into the groups of levels at the top of the triage (and what does triage mean, anyway)? It's rather obvious what a level needs for the Annoying: Surprise Deaths one, but the other two aren't as clear. What makes a level impure? What changes could you possibly make that would break a level? What does sophomoric mean? Finally, categories are good and which are bad? Thanks for answering my questions.

1789. Rory O'Kane (auc231-34.aucegypt.edu) – 20 Sep 2004 06:43:14 [ News: ESCAPE ]

I have a suggestion. When small levels are highlighted in the list, the preview should resize to just fill the preview space so you can see the tiles better. Also, levels too large to show in the preview should have little yellow arrows around them like the ones when you are actually playing the level.

1788. Rory O'Kane (auc231-34.aucegypt.edu) – 20 Sep 2004 06:34:18 [ News: ESCAPE ]

I tried to follow your advice on MacUpdate, but I couldn't create a new player. My misspelled name is Rory OKane, and I want add the apostrophe between the O and the K, but whenever I try to make a new player of that name, Escape says "Couldn't create player. Does file already exist?" Is it that Escape doesn't recognize apostrophes in the name? I hope you can help me.

1787. Tadbot (pcp04155722pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net) – 16 Sep 2004 14:07:40 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

Yar, smath and I go wayyyy back... We were in high school together, middle school, elementary school, cub scouts... I haven't kept in touch though. I think I may have discovered snoot.org from a link from his old cmu webpage.

1786. Tom 7 (h-67-101-139-209.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 16 Sep 2004 09:32:13 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

hehe, it's not even linux.

No way dude, let's be orkufriends. Gotta catch 'em all! (I didn't know you knew smath...)

1785. Tadbot (pcp04155722pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net) – 16 Sep 2004 04:16:51 [ UPD: sml-lib ]

OMG I have no idea what any of that is. LUNXI SUKSC!!1!!

But I was randomly browsing Orkut and found your profile out of the blue. Or someone pretending to be you. I'd add you as a friend, but you don't know me well. You should invite Smath and then I'll add him as a friend and be one away from you. Erdos that!

I finally got around to downloading your novel and it looks interesting, I think I'll actually try to read it sometime. Layout, whitespace, and diagrams look good so far (c.f. fig. 13ξ).

1784. lisa (cache6.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net) – 13 Sep 2004 20:29:50 [ FLAMING TEXT ]

i am tha sexy momma of your dreams? write 2 me way2hot2handel@hotmail.com

1783. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 13 Sep 2004 13:21:20 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

It's odd that you posted all three of those comments yourself, xtremist.