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Oooh, that's pretty. It looks like everything is starting to come together!

Can't remember if I've shared it before, but here's a simple random number generator (replace gems with the counter of your choice): 'object blocked to east, unblocked to north :choose #if blocked rndne give gems 1 #if blocked rndne give gems 2 #if blocked rndne give gems 4 #if blocked rndne give ge...

Tim D. Sweeney. Huh.

Saxxon wrote:You CAN use a label with #GIVE. The limit for player resources is 32767. But unless this is likely in your game I don't think you'll really have to worry about it.

I learn something every day.

Regarding "clogging z2": if you have a bunch of questions to ask, you don't have to create a bunch of new threads; just make one thread and put the questions in there. EDIT: I see you've already done this And we're usually happy to answer questions, even if the answer's already in the ency...

Here's an online manual for the ZZT-OOP programming language. It's got a short tutorial and a reference. You can get a similar manual from ZZT itself, by pressing H from inside the editor. If there's anything in particular that you'd like to make, let us know, and we'll give you any programming adv...

Regarding NEO: I don't see what Chase's being a murderer has to do with it. It's not like the game is about murder specifically, which would make it creepy. The reasons I'd leave out NEO is because it's an incomplete game (Chase never made part 2), and it's really, really hard (though maybe I'm a le...

Why wasn't I goofing off yesterday? :(

http://kevedit.cvs.sourceforge.net/view ... box/image/

I bet the skip.com file has something to do with it. (here's a download link. right click, save as) No clue if Kev actually wrote it, or how it works.

edit: Kev wrote it, here's how it works

The Enterprising Minion is genuinely helpful, and his comments about the bosses were fun.

Lots of clever enemies, which I really liked. I haven't beaten him yet, but I just want to say that Baron von Dread is the best ZZT boss I have seen in a long time.

In all fairness, I think it snuck up on most of us. :)

newt on GT wrote:Also, I am going to officially encourage you to submit games all through this week, if you so choose!

I just noticed this, and I might do so! I just submitted my project (incomplete experimental art-thing), and I was wishing I had more time.

Late-notice reminder: this starts in 12 hours and 40 minutes, and I just realized it lasts two days!

I'll be making something.

Putting idles in loops is very important if you want your code to work well in DOSBox or on a slow computer. I've used both.

I second the suggestions for #end->#e and #restart->#r. Don't forget that the bottom of the program is an implicit #end, so you can write your program without using #end at all! It only saves a couple of bytes per #end, but it can add up if you have a complicated program with lots of code branches. ...

Very nice screenshot! I especially like the torch and bricks.