IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level 257
Thanks to ShackNews for pointing to the impressive technical feats showcased at the unofficial IF Quake page, which bills itself as "...a port of id Software's Quake 1 engine to the Inform programming language." The site includes riveting in-game screenshots, and the FAQ page has important info on bugs with this genuinely playable, downloadable Alpha release, noting: "IF Quake interfaces directly with the Quake engine, which was obviously not designed for [this advanced] output. The errors you see related to audio and OpenGL are due to the fact that the engine is being tricked into thinking it's running normally." Rumors that John Carmack will be switching Doom 3 to this impressive new engine are yet to be substantiated, however.
IF... (Score:5, Funny)
HuH? If it does, what? What then!?
FPS! (Score:1, Funny)
enough free time? (Score:4, Funny)
Hows the bump mapping? (Score:3, Funny)
You are in a maze of twisty corridors, all alike.. (Score:5, Funny)
Just imagine playing quake via text interface. (Score:2, Funny)
>Pick up Rocket Launcher
Rocket launcher picked up.
>Look.
You are in a room with many exits. You see player X leaving via exit number 1.
> Go to exit number 1.
You are in a room with many exits. You see player X.
> Fire Rocket Launcher at Player X.
Player X gibbed.
DON'T BELIEVE IT (Score:3, Funny)
A ground-breaking new game ported to OS X? Yeah, like anyone's going to believe THAT! Better luck next year, simoniker!
(PS: I own a Mac so I'm allowed to make these jokes)
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:5, Funny)
BANG! You're dead.
Mirror (already Slashdotted) (Score:5, Funny)
Shoot the red guy with what?
With the BFG.
Do what with the BFG?
Shoot the red guy with the BFG.
The red guy is no longer in the room with you. You see exits to the north and northeast. You hear a buzzing noise to the northeast.
NE
You ran into the red guy's Rocket. Your innards are splattered everywhere.
Hit space to respawn.
Networking (Score:3, Funny)
Re:April 1st jokes (Score:4, Funny)
Neither do I. That's never happened on
Farked? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DON'T BELIEVE IT (Score:4, Funny)
No one will believe a Mac user has a sense of humour.
Soko
Bamboozled (Score:2, Funny)
porp
btw, I know Inform and you could, in theory, make some serious programs, but I'm curious, what are the limits of such low level languages?
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:5, Funny)
*grumbles about wall-hacks*
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Rumors have already been heard that the Duke Nukem Forever team is eagerly waiting for this engine to become available.
I am Beta tester for Multiplayer Mode (Score:5, Funny)
One guy started using voice recognition to play, which was quite a riot to listen to. As we grew more comfortable with the game we came across some other oddities: if you are a good typer and become familiar with the commands, it plays pretty much like the original quake. We even hooked it up so we had a team of IF players versus a team of graphical players, and the IF players won!
We've also receieved a lot of encouragement from a few visually impair folks. They complained about the lack of computer gains accessible to them.
Keep your eyes open for Multiplayer mode, it shoul d be a big hit. Depending on the ultimate success of the project, there are talks about working on Counterstrike next.
Humiliation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You are in a maze of twisty corridors, all alik (Score:4, Funny)
april 1 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hows the bump mapping? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:3, Funny)
And of course, the imaging engine rivals that of some of the most advanced systems ever created.
right (Score:4, Funny)
This is nothing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IF... (Score:2, Funny)
On a related note, Who is TV's most famous doctor?
Re:April 1st (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it is.
Re:enough free time? (Score:4, Funny)
maybe you can use this card ATI Radeon 9500 ASC [bbspot.com],
the article also meantion the Nvidas GeForce 4900 MX-ASCII
No no no, you've got it all wrong. (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, it's:
> Fire Rocket Launcher at Player X.
Rocket misses.
> Fire Rocket Launcher at Player X.
Rocket appears to hit Player X, but Player X reappears a few meters away, unscathed.
Player X kills you.
"OMG FUCKING LAGGG!!!!"
IF Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Directly in front of you are several stories. You notice a story about Quake with the notice 'Read More' beneath it.
>click notice
Room: Weekly Obfuscated Quake Story
You are now in an area that seems vaguely familiar. You immediately notice several trolls that are already attacking both the Quake story and a purple dinosaur.
Your score is currently +5 moderator points.
>attack trolls with mod points
You use all of your moderator ammo on the trolls, taking out a handful. There are still a few trolls left, but they leave you alone. The Quake story is now being protected by sensible readers, but the purple dinosaur is a hill of beans.
You see an opportunity for a karma kit. You see a notice marked 'Reply'.
>hit reply
You now see a Quake story with your post listed near the bottom, but in front of the trolls who are now attacking each other. Two moderators enter the room, closely followed by an Anonymous Coward and two morons who don't know how to read.
>hit submit story
Your post has drawn the attention of the others in the room. The faint smell of flamebait seems to be coming from just below your post. Five trolls have suddenly come back to life!
>attack flamebait with witty reply
Your witty attack has shot down one of the non-reading morons. One of the moderators takes care of the Anonymous Coward - he runs off to foul up some other room. The other moderator leaves behind a karma point.
Victory is yours!
i dont know whether this is an April Fool but... (Score:3, Funny)
the first application of this was, in fact, to reimplement doom as a text-based virtual environment within the mud, with its own stats, weapons, maps, and so forth. it worked splendidly.
what started as a bit of fun, we then reimplemented a different mud within this virtual system. it was a simple one, so it wasn't anything huge to do.
then, it was abstracted a bit to allow other muds to run under it. so we gave homes to orphaned muds, which were playable as virtual muds within our mud.
and then even worse, it got extrapolated so other sorts of games could be written under it. last i remember, someone had implemented the Magic:The Gathering card game under this system.
ah, muds. back when we all had time to goof off and spend 16 hours a day coding, but not on our CS degrees. having said that, my mud work got me my first two jobs rather than my degree, so things sometimes work out in the end
Re:Mirror (already Slashdotted) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IF... (Score:5, Funny)
*April 1st, and 5 mod points -- going to be a fun day!
Obvious Exits are North, South, and... Dennis? (Score:3, Funny)