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Re: Locking Doors

Jayzee xxxx — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:13:12 GMT

Late to the party, so sorry if you've already moved on from this, but what I'd do is: when the player leaves the room, check to see if he still has the key,

Re: Location Properties... Glitch or Ignorance?

Interactive Fiction Group — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:35:42 GMT

Thanks Steve, Nice one! Your advice was exactly right. I think I was getting confused because I didn't spot that 'Here' (one of the alternatives I tried) means

Re: Location Properties... Glitch or Ignorance?

stevgrif@... — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:24:07 GMT

The phrase you want to use in your IF statement or CHECK is "current location". This refers to the location at which the current action is taking place,

Location Properties... Glitch or Ignorance?

Interactive Fiction Group — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:28:42 GMT

Hello All, I'm attempting to write and ALAN3 story and I'm trying to give properties to locations. Yes, I've read the manual, but I still can't ... ADD TO

Re: New Sourceforge project for ALAN!

Doan the Exile — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:39:05 GMT

i like to draw maps of all the locations and write down the dialogues as a playscript before i actually write the thing, then convert it to ALAN. i dont think

Re: New Sourceforge project for ALAN!

Ben Martin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:19:58 GMT

OK, I get the principle now that you've explained it. There's a program that I came across some time ago, called "Labyrinth." It enables the user to lay out

Re: New Sourceforge project for ALAN!

Jim Gammon — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:27:21 GMT

Basically the premise is this: I can build the concept of my game just fine. But when I break it down into the parts and begin to code it, I lose the vision

Re: New Sourceforge project for ALAN!

Ben Martin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:16:00 GMT

Huhhhh? -- Ben Jim Gammon wrote: All, I had proposed a while back -- when the "Hey, anyone got any ideas with what we could do with

New Sourceforge project for ALAN!

Jim Gammon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:19:53 GMT

All, I had proposed a while back -- when the "Hey, anyone got any ideas with what we could do with ALAN?" question came out to the group -- of creating an

Re: Decompiling .a3c files?

Ricky Duval — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:21:37 GMT

I figured as much. (Didn't hurt to ask, though. Right?) Luckily, I was able to retrieve some of the data from my usb drive, and I should be able to

Re: Decompiling .a3c files?

Thomas Nilsson — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:58:29 GMT

Hypothetically, it might be done, but there is no software written to do that. So, basically for your need you are out of luck. /Thomas

Decompiling .a3c files?

Ricky Duval — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:25:19 GMT

(Hope this question doesn't cause any trouble ...) I worked quite a bit on my game today. Just about had it finished, actually. I have my source code stored

Re: All/Everything Group

"Jürgen Lerch" — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:36:25 GMT

Saluton! Von: Thomas Nilsson ... [...] ... [...] ... Didn't try if it can work now, but potentially it could syntactically work like

Re: All/Everything Group

Ricky Duval — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:02:15 GMT

Thomas, Thanks for your response. It makes a lot of sense, and I had a feeling it was something along those lines. Have a good day! RD

Re: All/Everything Group

Thomas Nilsson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:03:48 GMT

Rick! There is no way to remove an item from the "everything" group, since there is no such group! What happens when the player types "all" is that the