1810. Max (ce-web2.wesleyan.edu) –
27 Sep 2004 12:30:35
[ Tomor Da ]
Man, I miss being able to play escape! |
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1809. Tom 7 (h-67-101-136-180.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
27 Sep 2004 10:16:58
[ Tomor Da ]
Thanks Tad! I'm glad you liked it. The book came before all the Escape levels with names from it. I know about (and have fixed some of) the typos, and I will put out a new edition soon. If you happen to have your collection, I'd love to merge...
I thought doing the "a picture is worth a thousand words," thing, but I'm afraid that makes nanowrimo too easy (and too short). =(
Also thanks j! |
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1808. jcreed (pool-141-151-139-244.pitt.east.verizon.net) –
27 Sep 2004 08:32:34
[ Tomor Da ]
Happy fivesquare, tom! |
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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? |
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1806. Tom 7 (h-67-101-138-222.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
25 Sep 2004 22:28:32
[ FLAMING TEXT ]
Yes we are here! |
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1805. Anonymous (ki-proxy1.kos.net) –
25 Sep 2004 20:23:42
[ FLAMING TEXT ]
hello hello hello hello are you there say hi!!!!!!!!!!
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1804. Anonymous (ki-proxy1.kos.net) –
25 Sep 2004 20:22:37
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hey any body out there> |
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Well, it only has to be a recognizable shape! |
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People will be all like "HUH?????". Remember, the logo has to work for both idiots and savants. |
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I think it is too subtle. |
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".....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. |
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1799. Max (ce-web2.wesleyan.edu) –
22 Sep 2004 17:47:00
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Cool, then you could use hearts instead of bullet points. |
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1798. Tom 7 (h-67-101-136-30.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
21 Sep 2004 22:29:34
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max, that is almost accurate tonight |
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1797. Tadbot (pcp04155722pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net) –
21 Sep 2004 15:52:52
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Thesis topic: Using Recursion to Determine This Thesis Topic |
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1796. Max (ce-web2.wesleyan.edu) –
21 Sep 2004 13:18:41
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N*SANO |
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1795. mike (toplap.pc.cc.cmu.edu) –
21 Sep 2004 10:07:52
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so what's your thesis topic? |
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1794. Arthur (ip102-121.introweb.nl) –
21 Sep 2004 03:47:52
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Orktu sukxs! Like I mean, I am a member now for some months and NOTUNG HAPPENS!` |
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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). |
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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!) |
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1791. Anonymous (cache-loh-ab01.proxy.aol.com) –
20 Sep 2004 14:35:57
[ FLAMING TEXT ]
hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaaha |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1787. Tadbot (pcp04155722pcs.walngs01.pa.comcast.net) –
16 Sep 2004 14:07:40
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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. |
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1786. Tom 7 (h-67-101-139-209.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
16 Sep 2004 09:32:13
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hehe, it's not even linux.
No way dude, let's be orkufriends. Gotta catch 'em all! (I didn't know you knew smath...) |
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