TIGSource Game Generator comp
George Oliver
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=1214.0;topicseen
Any format that can run on at least Win32 is good for this comp.
If you've never seen the VGNG, check it out:
http://www.norefuge.net/vgng/vgng.html
Anyone down for co-writing a game for this?
Poster
<200e6589-e098-4da6...@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
George Oliver <georgeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
That all depends on what name you got. :)
-- Poster
www.intaligo.com Building, INFORM, Seasons (8000 lines and counting)
George Oliver
> That all depends on what name you got. :)
>
> -- Poster
I wouldn't feel too bad about cycling through twenty or so names and
picking the favorite. Though with the VGNG that could be extremely
difficult.
David Fisher
news:200e6589-e098-4da6...@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
You inspired me to write a program to combine IF game names ... here are
some results (all randomly created from Baf's Guide):
Planet of the Infinite Galaxy
Thermonuclear Toothless Vampire
The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Come to an End
The Obscene Quest of Dr. House Husband
Zork: The Cavern of Education
Hey, I'm Supposed to get the Blues
Whom Return to the Colossal Cave
Comp00ter Orc
Savoir Tortoise
Nothing But Dragons
What? No Universe
The Silence Snail
A Bear's Night Conspiracy
Secret Quest Butlers
I'm from the Crazy Place
Who Created Main Hall and Beginners Cave
I Rescued Elvis from Communist Chinese Room
Shards of Yogurt
The Sofa Cometh
She's Got a Thing for San Francisco 1906
We Ate New York
The Shopping Cave Adventure
You are Beans
Oh No Book 1
It's About itching
The Incredible Shrinking Caves
Generic New York Apartment Fire Dragon
Poor scenario
Westfront II: the Edge of Disaster
A few actually sound like interesting games:
Define Conspiracy
The Secret Diary of the Troubled Spirit
Hide All Heroes
Spy Dragon
Travels in the Land of Angels
Snow Ruby
My Name is Terror
David Fisher
Jim Aikin
LOL. Thanks, David.
--JA
George Oliver
wrote:
> "George Oliver" <georgeolive...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:200e6589-e098-4da6...@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
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>
>
> > If you've never seen the VGNG, check it out:
>
> >http://www.norefuge.net/vgng/vgng.html
>
> You inspired me to write a program to combine IF game names ... here are
> some results (all randomly created from Baf's Guide):
OMG!
(ditto Jim ;) )
miket...@embarqmail.com
<davidfis...@australiaonline.net.au> wrote:
>
> You inspired me to write a program to combine IF game names ... here are
> some results (all randomly created from Baf's Guide):
>
>
What do you mean *a few*? Holy sh -- David, you crack me up. Are you
sure those were all random? I smell a new comp brewing...
Skinny Mike
David Fisher
news:fqg4p4$r7r$1...@aioe.org...
>I only say "LOL" when I actually _do_ laugh out loud.
>
> LOL. Thanks, David.
You really shouldn't encourage me, you know ... here are a few more that I
liked, then:
Guitar Lesson of the Tortoise
Robots - Another abuse of Time Machine
The Sound of Jump Up and Down Screaming
Lost in Space: Dr. Smith Goes Marie Antoinette
Escape from the Crazy Intruder
The Battle of Philip against the Forces of Cat in the Tree
Diary of Obstruction
Dracula Episode 1: String
The Jewels of Misdirection
The Onion Trials of a Warrior
Sherlock Holmes in the Case Isn't Enough
Enhanced Feature
The Orb of Heat
The Adventures of the President of the Chalupa
The Underground Pyramids of Mars
Forever Pig
Adoo's Stinky Invasion
She's Got a Dog's Life
Goose, be Free Range
Dungeon of Foe
The Underoos that Ate to Freedom
The Six-Foot-Tall Man is Nigh
Small Building
Journey to the Center of Mr. Ed
The Door to Cow Shop
Bored Elephant
Guitar of the Caribou
I don't remember why this game is Part 1
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out Of Andrew Plotkin
Slouching Towards St. Bride's
Human Robots
I think "Dungeon of Foe" has to be made one day.
And "The Orb of Heat" is nicely understated, along with "Small Building" and
"Enhanced Feature" (don't overpromise to the player, I guess ...)
(Mike Tabert: Yes, they really are random! Just with some words deleted
occasionally for aesthetic reasons ...)
David Fisher
Rikard Peterson
"David Fisher" <david...@australiaonline.net.au> wrote:
> You really shouldn't encourage me, you know ... here are a few more that I
> liked, then:
I like yours better than the ones produced by the thing at the beginning
of the thread. :)
Rikard
George Oliver
>
> Define Conspiracy
> The Secret Diary of the Troubled Spirit
> Hide All Heroes
> Spy Dragon
> Travels in the Land of Angels
> Snow Ruby
> My Name is Terror
>
> David Fisher
The more I think about this, the more I'm troubled by how ridiculously
good some of these names sound in comparison to the original games.
I especially like 'Hide All Heroes', though I was mis-remembering it
today at work as 'Hide Our Heroes'. Here is the basic premise. Your
country is hours away from invasion and your government knows it can't
win. So in an effort to maintain one last vestige of hope they go to
their heroes of past wars, men and women who were amazingly strong,
smart, courageous, and powerful, but are now elderly, infirm, senile,
and weak. They sample all their DNA and entrust the samples to -you-.
Your mission is to deliver the DNA to secret cloning laboratories
spread throughout the country. Meanwhlie the stormtroopers of the
invaders will try to stop you. Hilarity ensues!
Busman
wrote:
> I think "Dungeon of Foe" has to be made one day.
>
> And "The Orb of Heat" is nicely understated, along with "Small Building" and
> "Enhanced Feature" (don't overpromise to the player, I guess ...)
>
> (Mike Tabert: Yes, they really are random! Just with some words deleted
> occasionally for aesthetic reasons ...)
>
> David Fisher
I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for
us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to
use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good
idea.
Busman
David Fisher
news:1e41ec4c-f345-43ef...@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
> I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for
> us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to
> use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good
> idea.
Er, it's a short C program and a shell script -- if that works for you, then
I can send it to you.
The formula is pretty simple, though, if you want to reproduce it:
* Get a list of game names (I can send you the list I extracted from Baf's
guide if you like).
* Make a list of possible prefixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", it would be
"Zero" and "Zero Sum".
* Make a list of possible suffixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", "Sum Game" and
"Game".
* Print a random prefix and a random suffix.
Only about one in twenty make the slightest bit of sense, though ...
I can't resist -- here are a few more:
She's Got a Thing for Murders
The Forest in the Village
Concrete Immortal
Pirates and Ninjas on the Roof
The Creature Dancers
A Fistful of History
The President, An Ordinary Ballerina
The Man from Next Morning
Dinner of Malice
Moral of the Moon
A Day for Fresh Hope
My Name is Jack the Magic Healing Plant
Escape from Land
The Domes of Repeating
Little Blue Dilly
Spider Space!
Arnold the Adventurer Caribou
Slap That Day Out
The Battle of Philip against Love
Common Infested Fortress
Sabotage Magic
The Elf's Hands
Catch That Black Death
(That last one sounds a bit grim ...)
David Fisher
Juhana Leinonen
> "Busman" <busma...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1e41ec4c-f345-43ef...@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>> I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for
>> us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to
>> use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good
>> idea.
>
> Er, it's a short C program and a shell script -- if that works for you, then
> I can send it to you.
>
> The formula is pretty simple, though, if you want to reproduce it:
>
> * Get a list of game names (I can send you the list I extracted from Baf's
> guide if you like).
If you send me the game list I can recreate the generator as a web app.
Juhana
--
Spamblock: remove all numbers from the e-mail address.
chipjack
wrote:
> She's Got a Thing for Murders
David, that totally made my day. I haven't laughed so hard in weeks.
Thanks!
--chipjack
Busman
wrote:
> "Busman" <busman1...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1e41ec4c-f345-43ef...@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > I really like your IF name generator, David. Will you release it for
> > us to download or maybe put it up somewhere on the web? I'd love to
> > use it as the starting push to a new game when I don't have a good
> > idea.
>
> Er, it's a short C program and a shell script -- if that works for you, then
> I can send it to you.
>
> The formula is pretty simple, though, if you want to reproduce it:
>
> * Get a list of game names (I can send you the list I extracted from Baf's
> guide if you like).
> * Make a list of possible prefixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", it would be
> "Zero" and "Zero Sum".
> * Make a list of possible suffixes, eg. for "Zero Sum Game", "Sum Game" and
> "Game".
> * Print a random prefix and a random suffix.
>
> Only about one in twenty make the slightest bit of sense, though ...
Thanks for the offer, David, but I've never touched C before so I
probably wouldn't know what to do with the code. I only understand I7
and some beginning TADS 3.
However, Juhana's idea of making it a web app will probably benefit
everyone.
Busman
Poster
<0f4700b3-ae3d-4ee7...@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
George Oliver <georgeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
That doesn't appeal to me, so I'll have to pass. I can beta-test it,
though.
(My personal instincts would lead me to "Define Conspiracy", "Travels in
the Land of Angels", "Snow Ruby", or "My Name is Terror". Then again, I
favor Romantic works. "Snow Ruby" particular reminds me of a Russian
phrase for bodies that were unearthed by the melting of the Siberian
snow.)
--Poster
Andrew Plotkin
A couple of I7 tables and "choose a random row" lines, then.
--Z
--
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
*
When Bush says "Stay the course," what he means is "I don't know what to
do next." He's been saying this for years now.
Arnel Legaspi
wrote:
> Only about one in twenty make the slightest bit of sense, though ...
>
> I can't resist -- here are a few more:
Dibs on "The Man From Next Morning" =)
--Arnel
Busman
>
> A couple of I7 tables and "choose a random row" lines, then.
>
> --Z
>
> --
> "And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
> *
> When Bush says "Stay the course," what he means is "I don't know what to
> do next." He's been saying this for years now.
Yes, that's right, Andrew. It is very easy now that you point that
out. Thanks.
Busman
Juhana Leinonen
> If you send me the game list I can recreate the generator as a web app.
And here it is: http://nitku.net/if/namegenerator/
(Thanks to David for the name list)
Generating names is surprisingly fun. My personal favorites so far:
Goose, Egg, Mini-Zork
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Evil Sea Grape
Sherlock Holmes: The Lamberly Radioactive Monkey!
Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy without Pantomime
And the Waves Choke To End All Games
David Fisher
news:8BWzj.199$0Q...@read4.inet.fi...
>>
>> If you send me the game list I can recreate the generator as a web app.
>
> And here it is: http://nitku.net/if/namegenerator/
Thanks for doing that. It gave me:
Game Without a Museum
Dreary Mutiny!
Insanity of Yogurt
Bears, Aliens Laughed at my Cardigan
Glass Bard
Reality Apple
Blighted Heist
Being Andrew the Phoenix
Narcolepsy of Adrian Mole
Evil Lesson of the Tortoise
Toddler's Z-Chess
Impact Yourself
Casino Mage
Amusement Masterpiece
David Fisher
Victor Gijsbers
>>
>> If you send me the game list I can recreate the generator as a web app.
>
> And here it is: http://nitku.net/if/namegenerator/
> (Thanks to David for the name list)
>
> Generating names is surprisingly fun. My personal favorites so far:
>
> Goose, Egg, Mini-Zork
> Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Evil Sea Grape
> Sherlock Holmes: The Lamberly Radioactive Monkey!
> Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy without Pantomime
> And the Waves Choke To End All Games
Some of these things make surprising sense. :)
Suppose that...
... George Orwell wrote a happy sequel to 1984.
"1999: A Utopia"
... Paul Allen Panks was upfront about the programming errors in his
earliest game.
"Paul's First Overflow"
... the Count liked to swim in it, as other aristocrats like to swim in
champaign.
"Dracula's in the Blood"
... someone _really_ went over the top with the demons, blood, zombies
and slime.
"Apocalypse Death's House of Horrors"
... another rushed and half-implemented fantasy adventure got submitted
to the IF Comp.
"Deadline Castle"
... when you reply to your nasty boss's email about reserving a table
for two for him in a very expensive restaurant, you 'accidentally'
include his wife in the recepients.
"CC of Vengeance"
... someone really got fed-up with the Thief in Zork.
"Die Pickpocket"
... we get to explore the factory where they make special effects for
the Apocalypse.
"Doomsday Waxworks"
... the Jesus detector of the Enterprise beeps!
"Religious Alert on Aleph V!"
... the Emperor had been too stubborn to return to France when it became
obvious his attempt to conquer Russia was doomed.
"Frozen Napoleon"
... the main puzzle is to get your pet to stop misbehaving.
"Don't and the Dog"
... Z-abuses were far more horrible than we all think.
"Escape from Z-Chess"
... your interpreter crashes--again!
"Curse Personal Computer? "
... SimPrison was released as an IF project.
"Alcatraz Corporation"
... knights were never the same after the invention of automatic weapons.
"1999: A Quite Brief Joust"
... this guy _almost_ managed to beat Z-Chess.
"Death to my Endgame"
... the kids today never play outside anymore.
"Fran and Bart Want a Computer Game "
... to spite France, the Kremlin planned a very special Sputnik misson.
"Napoleon on the Moon"
... somebody finally took advantage of free software!
"An Escape Enhanced"
... and so did someone else, with more artistic license.
"Mutant Varkana"
... there were travel guides for people with special interests in eating
fruit and avoiding ghosts.
"Bolivia By Pac-Man"
... in these secular times, we need more proof than just some miraculous
Grail.
"Quest for the Holy God"
... Andrew Plotkin started releasing karaoke versions of his works.
"Spider and Song"
... we get yet another prequel.
"Mother of Monte Cristo"
... paleontologists find out facts we did not want to know.
"A Stegosaur's Pantomime"
... another author has had it with simulationism.
"No Liquid"
... the guards might have misunderstood their villainous master. "You
escaped, vile prisoner? You come with us--our orders are very clear!"
"Escape and Dye"
Regards,
Victor
PS. And let's hope nobody ever writes either "Across the Sleeping
Princess" or "Cannibal Wonderland".
Kritsada Piriyakitpaiboon
I'm trying to recover from laughing at Victor's game names now. Maybe
we should do a comp for humorous games. I'd really like to see the
Napolean ones.
This one is not funny but the name is powerful. Maybe someone would
tackle this. Sound like I'd need a bucket for my tears playing this
game.
Love's Reverberations
Kritsada (formerly Busman)
Victor Gijsbers
> I'm trying to recover from laughing at Victor's game names now. Maybe
> we should do a comp for humorous games. I'd really like to see the
> Napolean ones.
I want to update my description of the Dracula one.
Suppose that...
... the Count was a regular reader of Lady Bathory's beauty advice
articles in The Transylvanian Daily.
"Dracula's in the Blood"
Regards,
Victor
Victor Gijsbers
> I'm trying to recover from laughing at Victor's game names now. Maybe
> we should do a comp for humorous games. I'd really like to see the
> Napolean ones.
Bullying is still a major problem among ghosts.
"Haunted Phantom"
Don't get ill when you're within range of _this_ institution.
"Prehistoric Hospital"
Maestro Michael has an evil scheme to disrupt the concerts of his
competitors, and you are one of his people.
"Cough Duty"
When you _really_ have multiple personality disorder.
"Identity 98"
It seems fun when you see the photographs of smiling babies, but in
practice...
"Disenchanted Mom"
It's harder than you think!
"Losing Your Jade Necklace"
There is _something_ beneath the Sphinx all right, it's just not what
Erich van Däniken thinks!
"Casino Caverns of the Sphinx"
He's back. And he's mad.
"Curse of Sisyphus"
Sick humour.
"Little Green Laugh"
Another horrible evening at your parents in law's.
"Dinner Discord"
The students thought they could get away with anything... boy, were they
wrong!
"Revenge of Five Tutors"
Just play it, and you will.
"I don't remember why this game is called test/demo scenario"
And there is a bunch for the AIF-crowd, especially those interested in
kinky stuff:
"Moist the Dungeonkeeper"
"Best of Body Revisited"
"Moist Dogboy"
"Savage Search for Amanda"
"The Warlord, The Princess & Punches"
An AIF-dungeon crawl for real perverts?
"Rape, Creatures and Caverns"
Regards,
Victor
Kathleen
>
> And here it is:http://nitku.net/if/namegenerator/
Ok... this is an evil EVIL thing (my poor ribs!)
Yay itching
Cannibal Labours of Hercules
Destination: Were Doomed From the Start
Quest for the Window
Guard Dog Running
Secret of the Dogs
Beat the Afterlife
Lost in This Game
Frustrated Pawn
Amnesia Bites
Way too fun!
Kathleen
Poster
<5445a9d8-2abd-4afe...@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
Kritsada Piriyakitpaiboon <busma...@gmail.com> wrote:
That one's right up my alley. I'd take it too if I weren't busy.
Erik Temple
> > If you send me the game list I can recreate the generator as a web app.
>
> And here it is:http://nitku.net/if/namegenerator/
Posting these is probably going to get old fast, but this thing does
produce fun output. Thanks for posting it. Here are a few of my
favorite brushes with randomness:
First, an obvious but kinetic equation (repunctuated, obviously):
Krakatoa + Tuna = Bloody Mess
Ever get flamed by the been-there-done-that crowd?
Revenge Of Clueless Bob Newbie!
Here are a couple of upscale "adult" games:
Forbidden Godot
Sins Museum
Leatherworld of the Moon Goddess
Highland Squeal
One not so upscale, perhaps:
Whore-House Infiltrator
An inspired piece of peasantsploitation:
Farmer Narcolepsy
Needs no comment:
Artifiction of F.A.R.T
A companion piece to the "No tea" sequence in HHGG?
The Epitome of Toastlessness
And requiring a journey into the:
Lair of The Toaster
A clueless tourist gets in with the wrong crowd in Germany:
Eins, Zwei, Framed
Finally, the story of one inspiring hero:
Drool: The Man
Have fun,
Erik
chipjack
game to get terrible reviews from people. I thought I'd save a few
unfortunate authors the time and effort and review these games in
advance:
"Arnold the Step"
Excellent prose, but severely lacking in interactivity. I found the
romantic subplot a little difficult to relate to.
"Jigsaw Skull Gorge"
Set in the old west, this piece features some highly implausible
puzzles. Probably not a Xyzzy candidate.
"Briefcase Bunny"
Furry AIF in Corporate America. Why did I play this? I keep washing my
hands, over and over, and I still feel dirty.
"Pork 2: The Gizzard Song"
Although the idea of an Interactive Fiction musical is a novel one,
the author's staggering ignorance of basic porcine anatomy renders
this game unplayable without consulting the walkthrough.
"Picnic Means Escape"
This game didn't work for me. Prison guards just aren't THAT gullible.
"Pick Up the Phone Booth Key to Time"
Doctor Who fan-fiction is a misuse of TADS 3, isn't it? Isn't there
something in the license agreement forbidding that? Well, as this game
demonstrates, there should be.
"The Incredible Shrinking Cube Game"
If Ernest Hemmingway wrote a novel based on whack-a-mole, it wouldn't
have sucked this much.
"Adventures in I Ran"
If you've ever wanted to BE Jimmy Carter, here's your chance! Yeah. Me
neither.
"Getting to know the Balrog and the Cat"
This is what happens when the source code to Galatea falls into the
hands of someone like Rybread Celsius. If Emily Short wants to sue
him, I'll contribute to her legal fund.
"Heather's Easter Time: Renegade Version"
I had to consult the walkthrough to find the shotgun, but otherwise
very playable.
-- chipjack
Adam Thornton
David Fisher <david...@australiaonline.net.au> wrote:
>You inspired me to write a program to combine IF game names ... here are
>some results (all randomly created from Baf's Guide):
And here are some more.
This is brilliant.
I'll do one-line reviews of the more interesting ones I got:
Inherit! for Relief
--refreshing puzzle game about undetectably murdering relatives to
service your ARM
A Fistful of Inhumane
--Clint Eastwood plays the 14-year-old Andrew Plotkin in this stirring
classic of blood, sand, and revenge
Escape of the Lambs 2
--the sub-genre of text-based shepherding games probably should have
been stillborn
The Horror of the Claw
--straight-up werewolf suspense game
Order the Banana
--a tale of an overbearing waiter
Drive-In Apart
--an ambitious but deeply flawed attempt to convey a disintegrating
relationship in an _Aisle_-like single-move game set in the back
seat of a 1958 Buick
Adam