dark boards

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:02 am

gingermuffins wrote:It does fog/mist pretty nice too

SILENT HILL ZZT

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 6:34 pm

haha... you learn a new thing every day. I just realized you can autowalk with the mouse if you hold the right button down.

Pancake · Post by **Pancake** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:32 pm

Hey, this is really cool. :)

I'll look for ways to use this in ZZT, and maybe even the upcoming WoZ!

Nice trick, gingermuffins. I always hated how the whole board would be non-visible when you set it as a dark board. However, people could use this to make something that puts more innovation into games. This'll add a lot to future ZZT games (as slow as they come =( ), I'm sure.

Post by **MadTom** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:06 am

Dr. Dos started a ZUltimate entry.

I've started one for gingermuffins, too. It would be cool if he edited it to tell us a bit about himself.

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:37 am

^^^^^^^^^^^
added some info

sort of

I am a Canada

Post by **MadTom** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:51 am

Hooray!

Homz · Post by **Homz** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:17 am

gingermuffins made Vinegar Gulf! I am dumb.

Such is the usefulness of ZUltimate.

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:00 pm

zultimate is the SHYT

Shadow Mage · Post by **Shadow Mage** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:33 pm

I wonder... If we use this effect, would you like us to credit the use of the effect to you in our credits?

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:41 pm

lol no credit needed

If it was something that took effort to produce, like a toolkit, then maybe i'd ask for credit, but it was discovered by acccident with no real effort on my part. Anyone could have figured it out.

(Wanna know how I found it out? I was playing that sidsid game by XOFACE or viovis that was recently uploaded. There's one board filled with torches and a centipede, and for some reason I typed ?+dark, and poof, most of the screen stayed up. If I hadn't been fooling around with that, i never would have discovered it.)

I'd like to see someone actually use it

Shadow Mage · Post by **Shadow Mage** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 4:43 am

I've got a few ideas on how to use it. = )

Post by **MadTom** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:23 am

I'm itching to try it out myself.

gingermuffins · Post by **gingermuffins** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 3:33 pm

I haven't tried it yet, but it should be possible to make routes appear on the board by hiding objects in the wall lining, and then making them eat the torches (or passages) when a flag is set. It would be a pain to set up, but it might look interesting if it opens up a long path. I'm sure there's more hassle than I'm thinking about right now, like you'd have to #put wall lining as the objects move forward or otherwise it will leave tears that the player can pass through, but just sayin'.

Anything other than a straight path would be torture to program, though. And I don't know how many bytes this would need.

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If making a path to the right, objects would have to add walls on the north and south as they go.

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Surlent · Post by **Surlent** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:41 pm

This is genius. As much as I Viovis right now, I'm glad you found out about this. I can't belive any of us never noticed it before...

Stak · Post by **Stak** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:27 pm

Well if it isn't Jazzy

You two-timing son of a bitch