Thelvyn on 26/4/2007 at 23:34
Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion
Hehe, I translated half of the Impurities-diary entries and got jumpy after a while. :p But the mission was quite kafkaesque
What does kafkaesque mean ??
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(except there was no one threatening you), and – although there are only few of them – "a lot" of all T3 FMs are like that...might be the AI. I think this is an expandable idea concerning the way of storytelling in FMs.Yes, that's right. In fact this should be the author's duty, but it would ne an espacially nice feature. ;)
Not sure what you mean about the ai ? This message is very confusing to me.
Bardic on 27/4/2007 at 04:04
Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.
Kafka's works have come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque".
from Wikipedia :)
Thelvyn on 27/4/2007 at 04:54
Quote Posted by Bardic
Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.
Kafka's works have come to embody the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque".
from Wikipedia :)
I thought it was a German slang term. Seems it is.
sparhawk on 27/4/2007 at 08:31
Quote Posted by Thelvyn
I thought it was a German slang term. Seems it is.
Bascially it means a kind of version of "pointless". :)
Judith on 27/4/2007 at 12:27
Absurd, yes, in a frightening way (The Trial).
Beleg Cúthalion on 27/4/2007 at 13:04
Yes, basically he has written some sort of nightmares. There are no monsters walking around, no vampires etc., it's just that a lot of actions, dialogues etc. do not have a natural logical cause (although they might seem quite usual). Like when you're runnig the same hallway over and over again in your dreams...or do similar strange things there.
And if there's a mission with a huge building, a lot of things you didn't know from TDS (and in this case TDS is our "reality context") and an AI doing not what it's supposed to be...you get a slight feeling that something is wrong. And I guess it would be very interesting to create a mission based on giving the player these "wrong" hints. Well, that's part of The Cradle's idea, too.
Anyway, it's offtopic. Besides the language issue; I always have to correct my TDS settings after installing an FM I had not installed before. I think there's a possibility to tell TDS what "my" default settings (graphics, binds...) are, but it would also be a nice feature if the new ThelvynLoader (or whatever it's going to be called) would ask you: "Do you want to save your current settings and keep them for all FMs?" :)
nomad of the pacific on 27/4/2007 at 20:47
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Originally posted by Beleg Cúthalion:It would also be a nice feature if the new ThelvynLoader (or whatever it's going to be called) would ask you: "Do you want to save your current settings and keep them for all FMs?"
I agree! :thumb: I'm left-handed and hate WASD. Much prefer the arrow keys. Very annoying to have to keep resetting the key-binding. :p
Thelvyn on 27/4/2007 at 21:43
Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion
Yes, basically he has written some sort of nightmares. There are no monsters walking around, no vampires etc., it's just that a lot of actions, dialogues etc. do not have a natural logical cause (although they might seem quite usual). Like when you're runnig the same hallway over and over again in your dreams...or do similar strange things there.
And if there's a mission with a huge building, a lot of things you didn't know from TDS (and in this case TDS is our "reality context") and an AI doing not what it's supposed to be...you get a slight feeling that something is wrong. And I guess it would be very interesting to create a mission based on giving the player these "wrong" hints. Well, that's part of The Cradle's idea, too.
Anyway, it's offtopic. Besides the language issue; I always have to correct my TDS settings after installing an FM I had not installed before. I think there's a possibility to tell TDS what "my" default settings (graphics, binds...) are, but it would also be a nice feature if the new ThelvynLoader (or whatever it's going to be called) would ask you:
"Do you want to save your current settings and keep them for all FMs?" :)
I think thelvynloader is a bit pretentious :)
Darkloader and thiefloader are already taken of course so what to call it.
I am open to suggestions.
I am still in the design phase at this point anyway. I have not written one line of code yet.
One thing is I plan to support tdm eventually as well. So I plan to make it portable. Now what this will likely mean is the linux port will ONLY do tdm and the windows port will do both.
But this is pure conjecture at this point as nothing is set in stone yet.
Or I could make two different ones just re-use as much as possible..
One thing I do not want to do is try to be all things to all people and load every game under the sun.
Beleg Cúthalion on 28/4/2007 at 10:00
It might be not too important, but if we have a "standard" T3-FM server again, there could be a little check-for-new-version feature. Or at least visit-"The Super FM" by CallMeNames-at-thiefmissions.com or something like that. But I would appreciate the programm to be little and handy (and T3 only), in this case we agree. Makes things more simple, I guess.
PS: And, please, no runtime errors with different "supported" languages. :eww:
Thelvyn on 28/4/2007 at 22:16
Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion
It might be not too important, but if we have a "standard" T3-FM server again, there could be a little check-for-new-version feature. Or at least visit-
"The Super FM" by CallMeNames-at-thiefmissions.com or something like that. But I would appreciate the programm to be little and handy (and T3 only), in this case we agree. Makes things more simple, I guess.
PS: And, please, no runtime errors with different "supported" languages. :eww:
No runtime libraries will be required, .net (Or previous like VB) will not be a requirement. I expect to just build a static version. I will probably use DLL's just not the C runtime dlls.
Check for new versions of FM's or the program itself ?
I had suggested the former. I wanted to md5 sum all of the fms and setup a service/daemon to check if there was a newer version available but it was voted down.
Bandwidth was the concern. New version of an FM and everyone under the sun would be downloading it the same day or trying to at least was the argument.
