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A memorial text adventure
October 11, 2010

So I've been judging IFComp 10. The games have been interesting--even the bad ones seem to have a spark, or somthing I wish I'd thought of, or something I think I could add my own twist to.

The one that made me think the most, though, is decidedly mediocre: "Ninja's Fate" by Hannes Schueller. It's a memorial game for an IF writer. We're not very good at the concept yet, because the Internet was largely developed by younguns. Even the original IF writers from the 80s--were young. About the only IF writer who died is Douglas Adams, who was more than an IF writer.

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Inform 7, and 1st review in a while
October 02, 2010

So I wrote my first review in a while. It's nice to have tourneys to motivate this, and I was able to put aside the usual worries, like

1) did I write this before?
2) did I fall into the same traps I usually do?
3) did I remember all the fun stuff from this cool game?

There's a problem here with writing: too little, and you don't wring out the mistakes with experience. Too much, and you can get bored, if that's not what you really want. Unfortunately this creeps into my reading others' reviews. It's too easy to recognize "oh this again" and shut off the writing-enjoyment sub-lobe in my brain. Yet at the same time, I do enjoy even making minor changes in my review, whether from others' suggestions or my own observations.

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10 minute text adventure
September 21, 2010

I've been looking into Inform 7 to write a text adventure and came across a few samples. The most amusing was here, and it takes place in just one room!

In case you feel like wasting a bit of time.

Warning: it kind of sucks if you get stuck on 19 points out of 20, since you have to go examine everything again. But it reminds me of my old efforts at IF where I only used basic verbs and even once created duplicate rooms where you got 10 points for taking ammunition from each one.

I miss not knowing how bad a programmer I was.

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Extra super important bogus TT tiebreaker avoidance thread
August 09, 2010

Hi everyone. Here are my results as fed into the Big Perl File That Does The Stats. Tiebreakers may be a concern, so I want to make sure they are right. Here's what I got.

This is more important than ELO stuff cuz if it's wrong, the ELO is. So speak up or forever be a societally-repressed writer not getting the attention they deserve.

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Team Janus vs Team Leroux 2-1

Bluberry vs Leroux 2-1
Janus vs Venter 2-1
Asherdeus vs Jerec 1-2

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Team WQ vs Team OD 1-2

Suskie vs Overdrive 2-1
Wolfqueen vs True 1-2
Genj vs Zipp 1-2

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Team WQ vs Team Leroux 0-3

Suskie vs Leroux 1-2
Wolfqueen vs Jerec 0-3
Genj vs Venter 1-2

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Team Janus vs Team OD 3-0

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week 4 elo stuff
July 29, 2010

Here are the ELO ratings after 4 rounds. Zipp is in last place in the voting, but he's had some tough matchups. For entertainment/hg point gambling purposes only.

1 Janus 2403
2 Venter 2199
3 Leroux 2173
4 Bluberry 2122
5 Suskie 2102
6 Jerec 2052
7 Genj 1996
8 Asherdeus 1931
9 Overdrive 1878
10 Zipp 1850
11 Wolfqueen 1653
12 True 1641

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Ratings here. Snapshot to follow shortly.
July 21, 2010

Here are the ELO ratings...basically, it's logarithmic, with someone rated 120 points above the next person likely to get 2x as many votes. This is only for entertainment purposes & not for predictions, and a sweep will probably turn everything upside down.

Week 3:

1 Janus 2167
2 Jerec 2098
3 Bluberry 2051
4 Suskie 2051
5 Venter 2030
6 Overdrive 2026
7 Asherdeus 2009
8 Leroux 1965
9 True 1915
10 Genj 1901
11 Zipp 1901
12 Wolfqueen 1884

Week 2:

1 Jerec 2293
2 Janus 2238
3 Asherdeus 2200
4 Bluberry 2092
5 Venter 2036
6 Leroux 2030
7 Suskie 1970
8 Overdrive 1908
9 Zipp 1886
10 Genj 1840
11 True 1800
12 Wolfqueen 1707


Week 3 stats...no graphics yet.
July 20, 2010

And I forgot to look up my photobucket password or bring my script to work. So unformatted stuff first. Hammer on me to bring the formatted. My company is hoping to release the next version of their little software product, but they were hoping to last month, and I've let that mess with other stuff I need/want to do.

Graphics will go in the main thread, which I don't want to spoil with tacky texty stuff like this.

It's rather interesting right now with Team OD in 2nd but with the fewest overall votes. Team WQ could jump to first if things go right. If there were pundits, they would be blabbing about parity.

Team/Wins/Matches/Points
Team Janus 2 6 17
Team OD 2 4 11
Team Leroux 1 5 15
Team WQ 1 3 11
===============individuals================
Janus 3-0 7-2
Jerec 2-1 6-3

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