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!?
Re:IF... (Score:2, Funny)
On a related note, Who is TV's most famous doctor?
Re:IF... (Score:5, Funny)
*April 1st, and 5 mod points -- going to be a fun day!
Oh how the months have flown... (Score:2)
enough free time? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:enough free time? (Score:2)
Re:enough free time? (Score:2)
now if only they can make the text 3D.
Maybe they could render the 3D text using really tiny ASCII art...
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
Inform programming language? (Score:2)
Anyone want to give us a capsule summary of what this language offers? It sounds interesting.
Re:Inform programming language? (Score:5, Informative)
Most uses of inform are with the Library, a selection of functions and support thingies written to facilitate IF writing.
It's turing complete, if you were wondering.
Very nifty. Chief competetor is TADS.
Re:Inform programming language? (Score:2, Interesting)
There are many other IF languages, TADS being the most popular besides Inform.
There is still a thriving interactive fiction "scene" and some very interesting things are being d
Re:Inform programming language? (Score:2, Interesting)
Sorry about the thin-to-nonexistant indentation, but the postercomment
compression filter makes it really hard to post source code segments:
Object fridge "refrigerator" kitchen2
with
name 'fridge' 'refrigerator' 'kenmore' 'freezer',
description "It's a Kenmore combination refrigerator and freezer.
The front is covered with irrelevant notes from days gone by.",
before [;
Take: "Oh, you ", (pbold) "want", " a hernia?";
And so it begins... (Score:2)
Hows the bump mapping? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hows the bump mapping? (Score:5, Funny)
w0000000t! Let the games begin! (Score:2)
April first is the only day I actually get work done.
You are in a maze of twisty corridors, all alike.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You are in a maze of twisty corridors, all alik (Score:4, 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.
Re:Just imagine playing quake via text interface. (Score:2)
You are in a room with two exits, the south exit behind you, and the north exit in front of you, which looks dark. There are two corpses of Player 4 "QuAkEkIlLa" and Player 3 "your mom" on the floor.
>Move North
It is completely dark. You have been eaten by a Grue.
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!!!!"
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:DON'T BELIEVE IT (Score:4, Funny)
No one will believe a Mac user has a sense of humour.
Soko
Re:DON'T BELIEVE IT (Score:2)
OS X seems to be brining the games back to Mac.
wow! (Score:2)
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.
Re:Mirror (already Slashdotted) (Score:2)
Anybody know how hard it would be to develop a text-based FPS-like game? Or know how one would go about doing so?
I think it would be pretty cool, at least from a huge geek's perspective.
Re:Mirror (already Slashdotted) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mirror (already Slashdotted) (Score:2)
Text Only Hunt the Wumpus [bu.edu]
A somewhat real mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Mirror [darkfire.net]
Networking (Score:3, Funny)
Happy April Fool's Day! (Score:2)
works (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:Bamboozled (Score:2)
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.
Re:I am Beta tester for Multiplayer Mode (Score:2)
Cool effort though, and nice descriptions. I'd try it myself, but the site has finally gotten slashdotted...
Humiliation (Score:3, Funny)
"Complete" list of April Fools Jokes for 2004 (Score:5, Informative)
Current list:
www.urgo.org [urgo.org]
mrtwig.net [mrtwig.net]
southparkx.net [southparkx.net]
www.suprnova.org [suprnova.org]
www.cowsponge.com [cowsponge.com]
Google [google.com]
Slashdot [slashdot.org]
fark.com [fark.com]
www.thinkgeek.com [thinkgeek.com]
www.pimpworks.org [pimpworks.org]
www.whirlpool.net.au [whirlpool.net.au]
planetnintendo.com [planetnintendo.com]
Google Job [google.com]
evercrest.com [evercrest.com]
www.heise.de [heise.de] (not sure if its a joke.. german)
www.homestarrunner.com [homestarrunner.com]
Weekly World News [weeklyworldnews.com]
CNN.com BITES! (Score:2)
Re:"Complete" list of April Fools Jokes for 2004 (Score:2)
Re:"Complete" list of April Fools Jokes for 2004 (Score:2)
Capitalizing on the pre-IPO frenzy that accompanies every new Google feature, the company issued a spoof press release today - of all days! - in which co-founder Sergey Brin says, "And while developing Gmail was a bit more complicated than we anticipated, we're pleased to be able to offer it to the user who asked for it."
The service is real, however. The advertisement injection has sparked fierce internal debates, reports The NY Times. "Many people inside the company are worried that us
That's Easy (Score:2)
april 1 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:april 1 (Score:2)
I did, it was ruined by morons marking it offtopic etc.
You really expect some impressive IQ from Slashdot users right? Let me tell, DON'T.
Re:april 1 (Score:2)
Re:april 1 (Score:2)
It also looks like they turned off anonymous postings on a 2001 april fools day.
Yes, that was the best day in slashdot history, ever.
right (Score:4, Funny)
This is nothing (Score:3, Funny)
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
Stuck (Score:2)
Oh GREAT! (Score:2)
CABAL? (Score:2)
Screenshots from Others Quake1 Engines (Score:2, Informative)
http://wiki.quakesrc.org/index.php/Engines
This is a short list of actual Quake engines. You can pick DarkPlaces and ZQuake has the best Linux/Windows engine (QW and NQ), and fuhquake/Darkplaces/Telejano has the better Windows engines (QW,NQ and NQ respectively).
If you want to jump directly to the cool stuf, go here:
http://wiki.quakesrc.org/index.php/The%20be st%20of %202003%20Screenshots%2C%20by%20Tei
If you use linux, copy and paste the url, if you use windows, type it carefully (naa.. j/k)
Anyone know where to get an aimbot? (Score:2)
Pity I so wanted to frag a blind friend of mine... (Score:2)
Well as level as it ever gets.
I would consider running AALIB [sourceforge.net] but all it and a braille display [freedomscientific.com] do is make a vibrator and nothing [google.com] would get done.
You know, on any other day. . . (Score:2)
--The really impressive bit would have been actually linking it to the Quake engine in a workable manner. It'd be much easier to start from the ground up and just use one of the IF authoring systems available. Talk about bloat!
The main problem would be in making the game interesting to play. Not too many IF challenges in your average Q
Arrrg. You got me. And I actually just thought... (Score:2)
LOL!
Files mirrored (Score:4, Informative)
All three versions can be downloaded here:
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=4807
Thanks!
-jason
PS: YES, this is a real game.
Yeah, right (Score:2)
Wow. Only 8 years from concept to implementation. (Score:2)
DOOM Ported to iPod (Score:2)
DOOM Ported to iPod [ipodhacks.com]
Finally.
blakespot
Re:April 1st (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:April 1st jokes (Score:4, Funny)
Neither do I. That's never happened on
Re:April 1st (Score:4, Insightful)
Do *anything* else, just don't come here and bitch about it.
Re:April 1st (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it is.
Re:April 1st (Score:2)
Except that this is real... (Score:2)
Re:April 1st (Score:2)
Maybe it was a ... joke?
Re:April 1st (Score:2)
Re:Are the downloads real? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Are the downloads real? (Score:2)
Re:Are the downloads real? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Are the downloads real? (Score:3, Interesting)
Too bad I suck so bad at all these reading stuff, but for fun I tried to type "carmack" and "romero" and I got some feedback
I wonder what other little easter eggs are in this game.
Re:Are the downloads real? (Score:3, Informative)
It's sorta an April Fool's joke. The joke is that it's a "port" - this joke is supported by the notion that the game pulls some tricks like it's the GLQuake console, and the website implies that you need the PAK files from a shareware or registered Quake. You don't. It's not a port at all - it doesn't use Quake code or use any Quake resources.
What it really is is just damn clever. It would be interesting to see if this provokes a more mainstream interest
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:2)
Are you kidding me? Did you not see the web site? The Screenshots?? This one is definately going to keep me satiated until Doom3 comes out.
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.
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:2)
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:5, Funny)
BANG! You're dead.
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:5, Funny)
*grumbles about wall-hacks*
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:2)
~D
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:2)
What the..? WallHack!
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:5, Informative)
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:5, Interesting)
Genocide MUD (link [genocide.org]) was exactly that (well, it still is, but I haven't played it in 10 years). A multi player player killing game, insanely fast, using only text.
There'd be wars, like two teams, play until one team is dead, restart... or all vs all wars, etc. The game is a really nice MUD (text adventure style), with beautiful descriptions, monsters, treasure etc.
You run past the descriptions. The monsters explode on your entering the room, dropping their stuff, which you take immediately, to sell for weapons and healing, in the first half minute of the war.
The team play is quite complex, because of difference classes. I'm not sure if there are things like Mages in online FPS games yet? The mage could 'port' to other players, to help them defeat their opponent - or walk into a death trap. Mages were the most important position in the team, when I played.
Anyway, some of those nerds did 200+ commands per minute, without any sort of client (mostly w e n s of course, and you can make aliases). It was fast, it rocked, and it was exactly what you describe.
Re:FPS games are just not playable with text (Score:3, Informative)
Re:This is lame (Score:2)
I agree, a wee bit too contrived. The best 4/1 jokes slip right past you. I think over the years we have all learned to become hyper critical of stories posted on 4/1 thus making it harder and harder to slip one by.
Re:This is lame (Score:2, Informative)
I agree, a wee bit too contrived. The best 4/1 jokes slip right past you. I think over the years we have all learned to become hyper critical of stories posted on 4/1 thus making it harder and harder to slip one by.
It's funny you two should say that, for two reasons...
First, this isn't the first 4/1 joke. The poll and the Gmail story must have slipped by you.
Second, this isn't a joke. I downloaded it and I'm playing it right now.
Re:This is lame (Score:2)
I downloaded it and I'm playing it right now.
THAT'S the joke
Re:This is lame (Score:2)
Farked? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oooh, funny and mysterious (Score:2)
I'm in Alaska, you insensitive clod!
Re:Oooh, funny and mysterious (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Oooh, funny and mysterious (Score:2)
No, you must read the title: if quake takes fragging to whole new level. That's an "if" with a capital I and F. :)
Re:See you in 24 hours. (Score:2, Interesting)
My hardware shudders at the thought. (Score:2)
Re:April Fools is off topic???? (Score:2)
Maybe people take moderator thing too serious?
Obvious Exits are North, South, and... Dennis? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Maybe I'm the only one PLAYING the game... (Score:2, Informative)
Just type "press button" and it will work.
Sorry about that. In the rush to get it out last night, I missed that one.
(This will be fixed in a release tonight)