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Off Topic / Re: Now playing... (games)
« on: July 24, 2011, 12:03 »Delphine Software - Another World
One of the first cinematic games; and it has amazing graphics for it's time.
(very hard, though!)
Thanks for inspiration for this evening!
* ZicherCZ dusts off his old DosBox
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Discussion / Re: Help Wanted!
« on: July 21, 2011, 10:13 »Web Programmer
Skills needed
- good knowledge of PHP/Python/MySQL
Responsible for
- writing a scoreboard and player database ( parsing of score.wad/player.wad )
- writing rankings, charts and handling of player data
- designing a fun and exciting system of browsing the forementioned data
- maintenace of the system once it's completed, integration into the forum
Difficulty : medium
Responsibility : medium
Time investment : medium
Currently on team : NO ONE
Hi Kornel,
first, to introduce myself: During my university times, I was doing some side-job PHP/MySQL programming. One of these was an application for maintaining contact databases, exported from MS Outlook and imported via CSV files. Further funcionality allowed searching within this database by text-parsed criteria, allowing several criteria in a single text line.
This is why I consider myself to be able to do such parsing of those .wad files, once I know their structure.
In my current full-time job, I'm heavily involved in data warehouse building, which requires me to build a sufficient DB structure for quick data reading, and eventually building comprehensive reports upon these DWs. If you ever heard of Business Intelligence, you know what I'm talking about :).
For this reasons, I trust myself to be able to create a quickly-responding DB structure of the parsed data, and, if the data amount is too high to be quick enough, I have experience with data aggregation, which further enhances the DB access.
Now, it's been quite some time since my last PHP experience (about four years), but I know that I can get back on this train quickly. Also, I have no experience with Python - but again, I learn quickly when I find something interesting.
Also, to be honest, I'm no graphic designer - I know CSS and can well use any standing CSS for displaying the results, but I simply am not too good with creating any new graphics. Also, my availability differs from time to time - my full-time simply needs to have priority.
Now, from what I know about the .wad file structures, I assume that you'd like something like a player.wad and score.wad, with _all_ players included, and with similar filtering functions as present now in DoomRL, with abilities to display individual player's .wad files, as well as their aggregations based on whatever conditions. Is that right?
If you have any particular ideas about the stats display and forum integration, go ahead and post them. If you are also willing to share the .wad structure with me, I can set up my own free webspace and try to get some work done on the parser and the subsequent DB work.
With regards,
ZicherCZ
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Off Topic / Re: [Game] Three-word story (a forum game classic)
« on: July 20, 2011, 08:32 »
, especially the Arch-Viles,
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Off Topic / Re: Now playing... (games)
« on: July 20, 2011, 07:58 »
Warriors of Fate - a CapCom arcade beat-em-up from 1992 via MAME.
Got robbed of Czech republic's top score recently, and I _will_ claim it back!
Got robbed of Czech republic's top score recently, and I _will_ claim it back!
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Discussion / Re: Doomprayer
« on: July 18, 2011, 05:54 »
Czech version right below! (sorry to those who can't read the diacritics properly).
RNG náš, jenž jsi zakódován,
posv??te se seedy Tvé,
p?ij? náhodná mapa Tvá,
bu? tvorba Tvá,
jako v DoomRL, tak i v ADOMu.
Dvojitou brokovnici dejž nám dnes,
a odpus? nám naše save-y,
jakož i my odpouštíme našim hloupým smrtím,
a neuve? nás do Mortuary,
ale chra? nás od Arch-Vile?,
nebo? Tvé jsou Roguelike-y, i DoomGuy, i démonové na v?ky v?k?.
Amen.
RNG náš, jenž jsi zakódován,
posv??te se seedy Tvé,
p?ij? náhodná mapa Tvá,
bu? tvorba Tvá,
jako v DoomRL, tak i v ADOMu.
Dvojitou brokovnici dejž nám dnes,
a odpus? nám naše save-y,
jakož i my odpouštíme našim hloupým smrtím,
a neuve? nás do Mortuary,
ale chra? nás od Arch-Vile?,
nebo? Tvé jsou Roguelike-y, i DoomGuy, i démonové na v?ky v?k?.
Amen.
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0.9.9.3 / Re: [M|N/A|93%|YAVP] Better late than never... first Victory!
« on: July 16, 2011, 08:06 »
The first win is always the most precious one - congratulations, and keep rocking! :)
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Discussion / Re: You play too much DooMRL when...
« on: July 14, 2011, 04:03 »...Hell's Armory runs out of new schematics.
...the Cyberdemon thinks you're a secret bonus boss because he always dies in a random nuclear explosion and can't remember the last time he actually fought you.
...they've stopped rebuilding The Wall and just leave a gift-wrapped backpack next to the stairs.
...in the Lava Pits all the lava has moved onto the walls and ceiling because it's tired of seeing the message "Argh!!! DoomGuy!"
...in the City of Skulls, the Lost Souls live in constant fear because the weather forecast is always the same, torrential rockets with a chance of ammochain.
...the Angel of Death has to call you and ask if he can borrow YOUR scythe.
...the monsters have a nursery rhyme called The Three Little Vaults, and the most well known line is "He huffed and he puffed and he blew their vaults up."
...JC has run out of Barons of Hell to summon and now resorts to hiding in the corner.
* ZicherCZ nearly fell down from a chair.
Afterwards, colleagues came.
They nearly fell down as well.
Afterwards, colleagues came.
They nearly fell down as well.
Great one, General sir!
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0.9.9.3 / Re: [M|AoB|84%|YAVP] Another angel down!
« on: July 14, 2011, 03:04 »
General Patton: Neither one - in fact is was a lack of confidence and stairs very close :).
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Bug Reports / [0.9.9.3 win] Esc doesn't work properly on Traits screen
« on: July 13, 2011, 09:38 »
Hi,
I found a minor, yet annoying bug when accessing the Traits screen from ingame ("T" command, not tested during level-up).
When a trait that the player doesn't currently have available for picking (in grey text) is selected, then the ESC key doesn't leave the screen back to the game, and stays in the screen.
The player then has to scroll to an available talent (any written in red, seems that whether the player already has the trait, doesn't matter) for ESC to work.
I found a minor, yet annoying bug when accessing the Traits screen from ingame ("T" command, not tested during level-up).
When a trait that the player doesn't currently have available for picking (in grey text) is selected, then the ESC key doesn't leave the screen back to the game, and stays in the screen.
The player then has to scroll to an available talent (any written in red, seems that whether the player already has the trait, doesn't matter) for ESC to work.
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Requests For Features / Re: New level event ideas
« on: July 13, 2011, 09:21 »
Hope it was not posted earlier, but let me get a shot.
After the player kills the last monster, a slightly modified message appears:
You feel relatively safe ... for now.
After clearing a level. 30-90 seconds game-time pass, when Arch-Vile(s) comes up the stairs (i.e. is generated close to them) and starts reviving corpses.
The arrival time and perhaps the number of Viles (1 on ITYTD and HNTR, 1-2 HMP, 2-3 UV and N! ?) should be subject to the difficulty level (the higher level, the sooner Vile(s) arrive). Also, this should not happen too early before Viles can normally appear (3 floors before, perhaps?), and never on special levels.
The arriving Viles don't provide XP (to prevent farming).
This will notify the player to get the hell out of the level, leaving scattered powerups behind.
And perhaps, to give a warning, another message pops up when the Viles arrive, perhaps along the lines:
You feel a great evil coming!
All in all, I think that this will really add to the horror feeling, and I beleive it would not be difficult to code either.
EDIT: Of course, the player should _not_ be aware of this level event before he clears the level, in any way.
After the player kills the last monster, a slightly modified message appears:
You feel relatively safe ... for now.
After clearing a level. 30-90 seconds game-time pass, when Arch-Vile(s) comes up the stairs (i.e. is generated close to them) and starts reviving corpses.
The arrival time and perhaps the number of Viles (1 on ITYTD and HNTR, 1-2 HMP, 2-3 UV and N! ?) should be subject to the difficulty level (the higher level, the sooner Vile(s) arrive). Also, this should not happen too early before Viles can normally appear (3 floors before, perhaps?), and never on special levels.
The arriving Viles don't provide XP (to prevent farming).
This will notify the player to get the hell out of the level, leaving scattered powerups behind.
And perhaps, to give a warning, another message pops up when the Viles arrive, perhaps along the lines:
You feel a great evil coming!
All in all, I think that this will really add to the horror feeling, and I beleive it would not be difficult to code either.
EDIT: Of course, the player should _not_ be aware of this level event before he clears the level, in any way.
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0.9.9.3 / [M|AoB|84%|YAVP] Another angel down!
« on: July 13, 2011, 04:33 »
Pretty much a very basic and standard AoB run.
I got lucky to get the Chained Court already on L4. Since then, fun times started.
Observations:
Tactical armor plus tactical boots are quite an effective combination - movement speed at 0.64s when cautious and without a single HR allowed me to outrun nearly everything. Too bad I found my first steel boots somewhere around L19 ...
Vampyre + A pain elemental = 200% health in no time flat. Thanks to GameHunter for this tip :).
Then, I just ran to Cybie before he even had a chance to fire a single rocket. On the third cut, berserk kicked in and then I just enjoyed the victory and my second Angel down.
Now, what next? A UV win? Another angel? I had a great shot at Ao100, dying on L94 - I may try to get this one done ...
Mortem:
I got lucky to get the Chained Court already on L4. Since then, fun times started.
Observations:
Tactical armor plus tactical boots are quite an effective combination - movement speed at 0.64s when cautious and without a single HR allowed me to outrun nearly everything. Too bad I found my first steel boots somewhere around L19 ...
Vampyre + A pain elemental = 200% health in no time flat. Thanks to GameHunter for this tip :).
Then, I just ran to Cybie before he even had a chance to fire a single rocket. On the third cut, berserk kicked in and then I just enjoyed the victory and my second Angel down.
Now, what next? A UV win? Another angel? I had a great shot at Ao100, dying on L94 - I may try to get this one done ...
Mortem:
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.3) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Adam Ring, level 8 Cacodemon Warrant Officer, defeated the Cyberdemon
on level 25 of the Phobos base.
He survived 53667 turns and scored 69610 points.
He played for 1 hour, 1 minute and 59 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 447 out of 531 hellspawn. (84%)
He was an Angel of Berserk!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 10
Levels visited : 2
Levels completed : 1
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
UAC Star (bronze cluster)
Berserker Silver Badge
Berserker Gold Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 30/60 Experience 27310/8
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +4 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +6
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Ironman (Level 1)
Tough as nails (Level 2)
Brute (Level 2)
Berserker (Level 1)
Badass (Level 1)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->TaN->Bad->MVm->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] tactical armor [1/1] (62%)
[b] [ Weapon ] chainsaw (4d6)
[c] [ Boots ] tactical boots [1/1] (100%)
[d] [ Prepared ] combat knife (2d5)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] assault shotgun (7d3) [6/6]
[b] green armor [1/1] (100%)
[c] green armor [1/1] (100%)
[d] combat knife (2d5)
[e] phase device
[f] phase device
[g] homing phase device
[h] homing phase device
[i] envirosuit pack
[j] envirosuit pack
[k] thermonuclear bomb
[l] technical mod pack
[m] technical mod pack
[n] agility mod pack
[o] agility mod pack
[p] grappling plasteel boots [5/5] (99%)
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
89 former humans
47 former sergeants
15 former captains
68 imps
23 demons
142 lost souls
25 cacodemons
9 barons of hell
1 Cyberdemon
8 hell knights
2 arachnotrons
6 former commandos
6 pain elementals
1 arch-vile
2 mancubi
1 revenant
2 bruiser brothers
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 4 he stormed the Chained Court.
On level 13 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 14 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
On level 18 he assembled a grappling boots!
On level 20 he assembled a tactical boots!
He left level 23 as soon as possible.
Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
On level 25 he finally defeated the Cyberdemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You start running!
You stop running.
You use a large med-pack. You feel fully healed.
You start running!
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you.
You hit the Cyberdemon. You feel like a killing machine! You're going
berserk! The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
You see : a Cyberdemon (wounded) [m]ore | pool of blood
You see : a Cyberdemon (heavily wounded) [m]ore | pool of blood
You hit the Cyberdemon. You need to taste blood!
You see : a Cyberdemon (mortally wounded) [m]ore | pool of blood
You miss the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon hits you. You need to taste blood!
You hit the Cyberdemon. You're going berserk! You need to taste blood!
You hit the Cyberdemon. The Cyberdemon dies. You feel relatively safe
now. Congratulations! You defeated the Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
Before him 100 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
87 of those were killed.
5 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 5 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
Is he immortal? 3 souls claim to have killed him...
1 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
2 killed the bastard and survived.
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0.9.9.3 / Re: [M|AoMr|92%|YAVP] First Angel w/ nearly no good equipment
« on: July 11, 2011, 05:33 »
AoMC seems to me as designed for rapid-fire builds. Too bad I'm way too unskilled with these builds ;).
* ZicherCZ searches for the first former captain to come by ...
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0.9.9.3 / Re: [M|AoMr|92%|YAVP] First Angel w/ nearly no good equipment
« on: July 11, 2011, 04:19 »* ZicherCZ takes out his BFG and rises from the dead on L94
*Real* marksmen quickly find out that they need no to be marksmen ;)@thelaptop: Thanks. For me, it's the very first Angel won. Well, given time, I may get a shot on the other ones as well (if time permits - Dungeon Crawl tourney is coming close, and I have quite a spot to defend :) ).
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0.9.9.3 / Re: [M|AoMr|92%|YAVP] First Angel w/ nearly no good equipment
« on: July 08, 2011, 04:07 »Now this is a strange combination.
Anyway: Well done!
Perhaps you feel safer in Death's embrace than in Hell?
Feature proposal: "You feel relatively safe now" after each and every death :).
And thanks :).
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0.9.9.3 / [M|AoMr|92%|YAVP] First Angel w/ nearly no good equipment
« on: July 08, 2011, 03:26 »
So happy to finally get my first Angel completed! :)
The only notable thing about this game is that I found pretty much no helpful equipment. Bulked red armour as best, no pistol exotics or uniques, a single speedloader. And in the end, I even ran out of ammo once ...
No wonder I ran down the stairs when I saw them in later levels. Until Hellgate, however, I maintained a 100% kill rate.
At times, I was lucky to have found large medpacks when I needed them, and a nuke. Without it, with the ammo left, I'd be down for the count for sure.
Mortem:
Well, that's it - one Angel down, way too many to go! :)
The only notable thing about this game is that I found pretty much no helpful equipment. Bulked red armour as best, no pistol exotics or uniques, a single speedloader. And in the end, I even ran out of ammo once ...
No wonder I ran down the stairs when I saw them in later levels. Until Hellgate, however, I maintained a 100% kill rate.
At times, I was lucky to have found large medpacks when I needed them, and a nuke. Without it, with the ammo left, I'd be down for the count for sure.
Mortem:
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.3) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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John Romero, level 9 Cacodemon Sergeant Major, sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon
on level 25 of the Phobos base.
He survived 87383 turns and scored 76259 points.
He played for 1 hour, 42 minutes and 59 seconds.
He didn't like it too rough.
He killed 394 out of 425 hellspawn. (92%)
He held his right to remain violent.
He was an Angel of Marksmanship!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 9
Levels visited : 2
Levels completed : 2
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Hell Armorer Badge
Marksman Silver Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 0/60 Experience 33188/9
ToHit Ranged +2 ToHit Melee +2 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +0
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Ironman (Level 1)
Hellrunner (Level 2)
Son of a gun (Level 2)
Eagle Eye (Level 1)
Dualgunner (Level 1)
Dodgemaster (Level 1)
Gun Kata (Level 1)
SoG->SoG->DG->HR->HR->DM->MGK->EE->Iro->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] modified red armor [4/4] (54%) (B)
[b] [ Weapon ] speedloader pistol (2d4) [6/6]
[c] [ Boots ] protective boots [1/2] (46%)
[d] [ Prepared ] modified pistol (2d4) [6/6] (A1)
-- This was really the best equipment I could find ... --
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] modified pistol (2d4) [6/8] (B1)
[b] blue armor [2/2] (100%)
[c] blue armor [2/2] (88%)
[d] modified red armor [4/4] (94%) (B)
[e] 10mm ammo (x16)
[f] large med-pack
[g] large med-pack
[h] large med-pack
[i] large med-pack
[j] large med-pack
[k] phase device
[l] power mod pack
[m] agility mod pack
[n] agility mod pack
[o] sniper weapon pack
[p] steel boots [1/1] (100%)
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
82 former humans
60 former sergeants
18 former captains
95 imps
38 demons
37 lost souls
13 cacodemons
11 barons of hell
1 Cyberdemon
14 hell knights
12 arachnotrons
2 former commandos
1 pain elemental
2 arch-viles
4 mancubi
1 revenant
2 bruiser brothers
1 shambler
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
He started his journey on the surface of Phobos.
On level 9 he entered Hell's Armory.
He destroyed the evil within and reaped the rewards!
On level 11 he ventured into the Halls of Carnage.
On level 14 he assembled a speedloader pistol!
On level 15 he encountered the Phobos Hellgate.
He left level 22 as soon as possible.
Then at last he found Phobos Arena!
He nuked level 25!
On level 25 he finally sacrificed himself to kill the Cyberdemon.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You enter a big arena. There's blood everywhere. You hear heavy mechanical
footsteps...
Are you sure you want activate the thermonuclear bomb? [Y/n] You use a
thermonuclear bomb. Warning! Explosion in 10 seconds! Warning!
Explosion in 9 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 8 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 7 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 6 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 5 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 4 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 3 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 2 seconds!
Warning! Explosion in 1 seconds!
You feel relatively safe now. Congratulations! You defeated the
Cyberdemon! Press <Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
Before him 91 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
79 of those were killed.
5 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 5 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
Some rumours though, say that the Cyberdemon was killed already!
Is he immortal? 2 souls claim to have killed him...
2 killed the bastard and survived.
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Well, that's it - one Angel down, way too many to go! :)