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I was wondering, making a BoG to play Geneforge scenarios would be cool but why are you making a BoN when it's so similar to BoA anyway ?

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson was a good one; a curiosity search showed that Toby-Linn had posted about having read it two years ago .

Geneforge was the first I'd installed from a shareware collection. The screenshot of the loading pic did the trick, I think; the hood and cloak did make the Shaper look mysterious in a 'fantasy' sort of way.

Mostly, but "Give yourself Goosebumps" from my childhood was rather more interesting. It's similar to how the talk-node system works in SW games, as each page contains a scene of action and a list of options each of which leads you to another page. It's a personal version of the classic Goosebumps horror, as you yourself are the protagonist of the book's story. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You enter a dark, foul-smelling and evil-looking house at midnight. You look around the place, wondering what to do. You see two big, black demons guarding the front door, but there is also a door to the right, which is locked, but the lock looks rusty and easily break-able. What do you do ? Try to kill the demons and open the door (Toss a coin. If Heads, turn to Page 25 and if Tails turn to Page 28) Try to break the lock and open the door to the right (Turn to Page 37) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sure such books come under a general category, but the most I could get out of Wikipedia was that G-Y-Goosebumps is derived from the Choose Your Own Adventure series.

I spent like fifteen minutes marveling that a guy from Seattle had made a blog with a ".in" domain suffix until I realized that it was just me. Blogger must redirect to a viewer-specific domain suffix for whatever reason. Great blog, though.

At least it's not just the mods who're talking to each other all the time. A live dissection of the Geneforge, byte by byte, to make a BoA-like editor for creating new Geneforge scenarios doesn't seem to have sparked a lot of interest. If that isn't forum-death, then I don't know what is. Well, I could be biased, but Blades-of-Geneforge and Geneforge-MMORPG used to be hot topics around here some time ago. Maybe the players have moved on to Avadon and the Avernum remakes, but if the numbers are low even over there, then well *shrug*.

Happy 314 !!! Cute milestone, not scary -)

Witty titles, but it's not always obvious why a member got/has their particular one. Random thought : the mods seem to be very traditional; they don't update their statuses ('cept Sylae). -CC-

I'm losing my sleep over this - seriously. -CC-

Hope you feel better soon. -) -CC-

What's an LGoWI and how's it different from an LP ? ( I did a Google and it auto-corrected the term into 'Glow' ) -CC-

How would you draw a Portal, would it have stone-made ragged entrances, orange lights and armored guards ? Maybe an artist who isn't biased by existing fantasy concepts could draw differently. -CC-

You've probably seen the topic pinned to the tech forum, but if you haven't here it is. If you're on a 64-bit machine, it could be a problem. -CC-

I recall very little humour from Avernum. If it really was so dry then I must have missed most of it. -CC-

I took that to mean you can't really be attracted to someone of your own gender and that you're just thinking things up (because you're human), which was what I thought until I read that animals display same-sexual behaviour also (Wiki). -CC-

Oh, so now it's more work for the Windows beta testers huh. -CC-

Couldn't hurt to have some such thing crawl up the stairs once in a while. -CC-

FYT ( ) -CC-

The availability of multiple choices is overdone. Meeting that helpful character who tells you "If you want traps, go Left or if you like hacking rogues better, then go Right" makes it boring after a while. -CC-

I've often wondered where to go and when. This is better than being told what to do by a walkthrough. -CC-

I did take a fancy to that 3D chess they had back in the days of dos. So long as it doesn't interfere with the gameplay or make it hard to differentiate between the pieces, having animated Chess characters is quite okay. Even if it doesn't go home-level, having a game-cafe dedicated to such stuff would be great. -CC-

Cheshire Cats need no booze, coz they've lots of milk and cream. -CC-

And don't forget the pokemon and ponies. -CC-