make a game

[craycpanda]

do passages have stats?

if not make a game where you leave the board several times to go fight a hardcore boss called HAYZOOS or MR. SHEFFIELD

that's a game i would play

[Alexis Janson]

Passages do have stats. The easy way to tell if something has stats is to try to fill the board with it. If it only fills a patch and then runs out of juice, it has stats.

[Alexis Janson]

here's another, more subjective ZZT puzzle:

what's the most useless possible line of code that still could theoretically do something?

[Quantum P.]

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Example, please.

[Commodore]

if it could do something I don't think it'd be useless, though I think the best answer for your question would be

'restart

where you could #restore restart somewhere else.

[Dr. Dos]

he wants it to be one line!

because my suggestion was

#if x y
:y

[Quantum P.]

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#play This lin3 only pl@ys @ singl3 note.
#try cw w #try ccw e #try opp s #try n ?n
#if blocked n #if blocked opp s #try n ?n
#try n #try opp s #try cw w #try ccw e ?n

What specifically is meant by "do something"?

[graa]

@Interaction

[Alexis Janson]

by does something, i mean there is a context in which it matters if that line is there or not.

#if not any boulder change boulder empty

never does anything in any context, so it's not allowed.

[Alexis Janson]

Here's the best I can come up with:

#if not any object change empty cyan empty

can you figure out the incredibly contrived scenario in which the omission of this line would result in an observable consequence?

[http://yahoo.com/]

you're on the toilet and there's a man pointing a gun at you

he wants to know if you have any cyan empties on your person

[Dr. Dos]

Reading out loud to children from an empty book, and the children have hanguns leveled at you, ready to shoot if you make a mistake

[Commodore]

does #if any object work in an object?

could it work in a scroll?

[TTTPPP]

The only thing I could come up with was sticking it in a scroll. Then you could have a line later in the scroll which #put a key (without specifying colour).

Personally I think the line

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#change normal line

is pretty useless, though it obviously could make a difference.

Is it possible that

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#if blocked s #if not blocked s #put s key

could create a key? I don't know how zzt parses the object code.

[Alexis Janson]

you got it, sir! except that scrolls can't #put, it causes zzt to crash. easiest is to have a second scroll which checks if there are cyan empties and does something about it if there are.

i'm pretty sure i've USED #change normal line

#if blocked s #if not blocked s always returns negative