World: r3wp

Somebody on the ML is looking for the "Rebol theBeast" game which 
was based on Cyphre's Arcadia. Cyphre (or anybody else) is it still 
available?

Was it ever a game or just a scrolling parallax demo ?

I don't know I've never seen it.

I think it was just a demo. I don't know where a public link is, 
unless available from Cyphre's Viewtop site.

yes, just a demo ... showing parallax scrolling ....

however - Cyphre's rebsite was placed on my server. I did mistake 
during server reinstall, I forgot to back-up his content. Cyphre 
would have to make it available again ...

is someone playing this ? http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/

Davide: I am :) Very cool game. Inspired me to create a virtual computer 
game that teaches programming. Haven't finished the game yet but 
I played it for a couple of hours until I got stuck.

...virtual computer game that teaches programming...
 
Interesting, written in Rebol?

Mostly Ruby and a bit Java => http://rubility.heroku.com; It's in 
very early stages though. At the moment I am creating the underlying 
technologies for the game and the virtual computer it runs on. Well, 
let's call it a virtual virtual computer since I use a very easy 
trick to simulate a virtual computer :p (the game is an MDI app, 
and "apps" in the game are just MDI windows)

I did start writing a Rogue like game with Rebol today though :) 
I did try to make a jump and run game half a year ago when I first 
started to learn Rebol, but the keyboard events made that impossible 
(at least for me because I don't know if you can improve the event 
system). It takes a few seconds until the keyboard event is sent 
continually when you press and hold a key, like for walking left 
or right. For the rogue like game this isn't a problem since you 
always move one step at a time which also acts as a turn in the game.

the R2 event system has severe limitations.  for gaming its almost 
unusable unless you really hack it, and even then, you don't get 
key UP events so its hard to do a lot of types of games.

Which is sad because the drawing capabilities of Rebol are pretty 
cool. I got tile based map rendering and scrolling working in 5 minutes 
tops :)

yep  it is a shame .

I guess Rebol 3 will improve that. I hope.

yes and we'll have access to the event mechanism at some point via 
the extension.  so we can customize it for specific needs if its 
really necessary.

Me too on the hope.  I took a crack at a game in REBOL once. But 
I could not get my head round some of the event handling.  Drawing 
was easy (umm, for a stick figure artist type ala moi that is, if 
not 'good').    ;)

Stick figure graphics are really popular nowadays if you look at 
some of the top iPhone games :)

http://uni.xkcd.com/wicked interface on a wicked comic

When you visit, try the sequence...

make me a sandwich
sudo make me a sandwich

one of my favourite gags ever.

hahaha

the help command is also VERY usefull hahaha

Has anyone done some Corewar simulator in Rebol? I just remembered 
this cool game.

I thought about the same thing a few years ago Robert. I found that 
I still have old downloads from looking into it, but no REBOL code.

Ok. I can imagine an online-version where you play life against others.

I have a REBOL version of CoreWars, made in 2008. Search for "corewars" 
in group "Chat". As I remember, the last part of the asm macros isn't 
made, and it's slow compared to a compiled version. I can send you 
the code, if you like.

That would be nice. Thanks.

I can imagine using Cyphre's JIT compiler to speed it up :-)

Robert, I sent you an email.

This could become a great game for web designers 
http://yizzle.com/whatthehex/

I did very well (almost perfect), but I'm not used to lower case 
letters.  That messes me up)

sometimes i did think the color would be more bright than it actually 
was, but otherwise it's easy at the default difficulty level (i did 
not try other levels)

At level 48 is really hard, I've hit the right color only once at 
the first guess.

pixel breakout http://wonderfl.net/c/tNGi/fullscreen

I just got STARCRAFT 2   ... only 10 years waiting.

my programming might be a bit affected  ;-)

see you later, next year...

Only 10 years? Try waiting for twelve :) It's addictive, I already 
played for about 8 hours I think and I usually put down 99% of games 
after 10 to 20 minutes, even if they are really good. But I want 
to play the Zerg -.- Can't wait for the addon to come out. I hope 
they don't release the Protoss addon first. Did you buy the special 
edition? I thought long and hard about it (90 Euros!!) but then I 
thought, if Blizzard does what they did with World of Warcraft, there 
will be a special edition of every addon too, so you'd have to pay 
nearly 300 Euro all together. So I just bought the standart edition 
and will buy the special edition of the Zerg addon ;)

is PC gaming any better or easier nowadays? I haven't really played 
since 2004.

Isn't Starcraft-2 an very old game? IIRC I have an old Amiga version.

I have stopped playing since I'm 18 or so... the addiction factor 
is just to high.

No, Starcraft II was just released by Blizzard.  Sequel to Starcraft, 
a Windows game from 1998

And, this release only allows playing as Terran?  Guess I really 
am not buying it...

when playing multiplayer, you can play any of the three races.

I agree that is addictive as hell, and also much more challenging 
than previous versions.


I've never been annihilated so often playing this kind of game before.

henrik, what do you mean by "easier".

the SC2 campain is terran, but it has a few protoss missions In it 
so far.    the way the story is unwinding, I think there will be 
some Zerg scenarios also.

I must say, the story is much better than SC1 too.

only down side is that its a resource hog.  but that's to be expected 
with the level of detail in the game engine.  putting settings to 
low will allow the game to play on older machines without a glitch 
though...  it seems to be much more demanding on OSX.

Ah, good.  Maaaybe I will, then...

That's the irk I have with PC gaming: That you have to upgrade your 
hardware every 6 months and wrestle with drivers. I advised my nephew 
again to get into PC gaming for those reasons as I don't want to 
change the diapers on his PC, every time something doesn't play.