[Walkthrough Comp] Results
Emily Short
And here we have ye results:
Congrats to Stephen Granade for Best Game and Matt Fendahleen for Best
Transcript. Honorable Mention to J. Robinson Wheeler for his transcript,
as well; and a special award to Andrew Plotkin for causing me the most
grief with his transcript of a game not in the English language. (Trust
zarf to make a puzzle out of something with a prescribed walkthrough.)
Thanks to everyone who participated: this was a larger turn-out than
expected, and I had a great time seeing what people had done with things.
Reviews and the transcripts/games themselves are available at
http://emshort.home.mindspring.com/walkthrough2.htm.
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Emily Short
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Matteo De Luigi
> and a special award to Andrew Plotkin for causing me the most
> grief with his transcript of a game not in the English language. (Trust
> zarf to make a puzzle out of something with a prescribed walkthrough.)
Heh. Remembers me of when I didn't know a word of English and tried
to play games anyway.
Does that language have a name?
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Matteo De Luigi
David Samuel Myers
> Does that language have a name?
Zarfsperanto?
Glzxperanto?
-d
Adam Biltcliffe
> Does that language have a name?
The team of crack monkey linguists working round the clock on ifMUD to try
and come up with a translation seem to have been referring to it as 'Lighan'
so far, although since that seems to be a verb along the lines of 'extract'
or 'capture', it seems unlikely that that's the real name.
The team of monkey linguists on crack came up with a quite different answer,
of course, but that's only to be expected.
jw
mattF
> and come up with a translation seem to have been referring to it as 'Lighan'
> so far, although since that seems to be a verb along the lines of 'extract'
> or 'capture', it seems unlikely that that's the real name.
May i just say, i'm very much looking forward to seeing r*if posts
with headers like "HELP I AM STUCK IN WALKTHROUGH! (spoilers)"
-mattF
David Given
lust_fo...@hotmail.com (mattF) writes:
> May i just say, i'm very much looking forward to seeing r*if posts
> with headers like "HELP I AM STUCK IN WALKTHROUGH! (spoilers)"
Zarf, zao be andi. Seis loid be watch (oi andi), and I'm going to
Australia tomorrow, with no net access and won't be able to track the
progress of the decoding effort.
My tentative lexicon, 65-odd words and the compass directions, is at:
http://wired.st-and.ac.uk/~dg/lighan.txt
Have you met the Voynich Manuscript?
http://www.research.att.com/~reeds/voynich.html
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Mel
> In article <8b3a0406.01052...@posting.google.com>,
> lust_fo...@hotmail.com (mattF) writes:
> > May i just say, i'm very much looking forward to seeing r*if posts
> > with headers like "HELP I AM STUCK IN WALKTHROUGH! (spoilers)"
> Zarf, zao be andi. Seis loid be watch (oi andi), and I'm going to
> Australia tomorrow, with no net access and won't be able to track the
> progress of the decoding effort.
> My tentative lexicon, 65-odd words and the compass directions, is at:
EEyouch! Now I'm going to *have* to play that game.
:D
Mel
(remove the exclamation of horror to reply)
mattF
> Australia tomorrow, with no net access and won't be able to track the
> progress of the decoding effort.
Figuring out the location of the game (I'm pretty sure I'm on the
money, there, anyway) has been very helpful. Not to mention watch.
On a drastically less relevant note, I'm giving serious thought to
concocting an evil musical project with lyrics penned entirely in
Zarfi, or Eblong, or whatever it's called. I could call it "ANDI
SABRAL : Zaol gorny bi fulba seago" It could cause the music industry
a lot of needless pain. Hence, my interest.
-mattF