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<LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: Nathan F Yospe <<A HREF="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:38:14 -1000</LI>
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 adam#treyarch,com wrote:
:On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 WriterDL#aol,com wrote:
:> As near as I can tell there needs to be a way to set heading, speed and
:> possibly facing. It should be possible for the user to look in a different
:> direction while moving, stop and turn around, take a sharp left while
:> running, etc. Right now I have just taken the normal N, E, S, W, NE, SE....
:> keywords, added the verbs 'run', 'jog' and 'walk' and gone at it.. my
:> question is, is this too little control?
:> I can see a system where the user types:
:> >Heading 280
:> >Speed 5
:> >Facing 300
:> But I think that would get old *real* fast and also isn't nearly as
:> transparent as the normal interface. I'm also having a problem with facing..
:> in my hope to avoid numbers, I have 'look right', 'look left' and 'look
:> ahead'. Again, not enough control?
:I think the problem with this is that it is too low-level. One of the things
:that I like best about a text interface is that in many ways, it allows
:a much more human level of control than the equivilent graphical one.
:One a mud, I can type "get the large red sword" and expect to pick up the
:large red sword, regardless of whether it is on the table, on the floor,
:or hanging on the wall. My character handles these details for me, and
:I can concentrate on broader goals. On a graphical mud, you are (usually)
:required to navigate over to whever the red sword lies, and then identify
:it somehow in 3space without actually naming it, hopefully not missing and
:accidentally picking up the barrel on one side of it or the pair of pants on
:the other side of it.
What is the extent of your command interpreter / parser / whatever? I
remember you being comparable to me in ambition...
:So to extend this to movement, I would expect that the user would want to
:start out with the normal directional commands, and then be able to point
:themselves at targets as they show up. In some cases, it might even be
:automatic. Here's an example:
:% look
:You are on a road running north and south. Nothing but open plains are
:visible in every other direction.
:% walk n
:You start walking north.
:% jog
:You increase your pace to a light jog.
:%
:[time passes]
:A building comes into view on the northwest horizon.
:% look building
:You turn your head northwest to view the building.
:The building is a large stone structure with several smoking chimneys.
:% go towards building
:You turn to face a building to the northwest and continue jogging.
:%
:[time passes]
:A large cloud of dust appears over the west horizon.
:You turn your head west to view a large cloud of dust.
:The cloud is a pack of hungry ogres headed right towards you!
:etc. In this case, there might be another cloud of dust over the east
:horizon as well, but the player wouldn't see it because their attention
:is facing the other direction. Obviously you'd need to support "look around"
:(scan?) as well as "look north" or "look cloud".
Searching the archives, I've found a couple of my own posts on this:
<A HREF="http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00661.html">http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1999Q1/msg00661.html</A>
There are others, but I like this one.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00698" HREF="msg00698.html">[MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
WriterDL <a href="mailto:WriterDL#aol,com">WriterDL#aol,com</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 00:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00699" HREF="msg00699.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
Vijay Weasel Prabhakar <a href="mailto:weasel#cs,columbia.edu">weasel#cs,columbia.edu</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 00:33 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00700" HREF="msg00700.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
Jeremy Noetzelman <a href="mailto:jjn#peoplelink,com">jjn#peoplelink,com</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 00:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00701" HREF="msg00701.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
adam <a href="mailto:adam#treyarch,com">adam#treyarch,com</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 00:44 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00703" HREF="msg00703.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
Nathan F Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 02:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00707" HREF="msg00707.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
Laurel Fan <a href="mailto:lf25+@andrew.cmu.edu">lf25+@andrew.cmu.edu</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 06:15 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00704" HREF="msg00704.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
Draymoor <a href="mailto:fibhufky#erols,com">fibhufky#erols,com</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 02:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00712" HREF="msg00712.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Command interface for Coordinate based world</A></strong>,
Lovecraft <a href="mailto:dave#darkages,com">dave#darkages,com</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2000, 20:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00691" HREF="msg00691.html">[MUD-Dev] (fwd) mud.design.ideas</A></strong>,
Nathan Fenenga Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Wed 22 Mar 2000, 22:07 GMT
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