7drl starting announcement

Well. I haven't written a roguelike before, but I've been trying to
plan one successfully for about five or six years. Mostly or more or
less entirely all of it on paper. I lost some notes.

I put the really, really old one on the back burner, then lost it,
then put the really old one on the back burner, then just the old one,
then I lost both the really old and just simply normally old ones. And
then I was planning one out recently, this year actually, and when I
heard about the 7drl I put it on the back burner and decided to whip
up a small, simple one just to get it out in the spirit of the
contest.

And my notes started to form some outlining, of course, to keep it all
organized.

And the outlining got really well-done and formatter, and I had to
keep up with conventionalising my method of formatting my outlining of
my notes, see, not really code, yet, can't have that. I hadn't gone
past coding, yet. (I'm an amateur coder so I don't want to crawl
through anybody else's thick commentaries and a web of #DEFINES,
really).

Actually the previous one, which I have now backburnered for the sake
of 7drl, at first I wanted to code it in ASM very badly but I couldn't
get ahold of an old DOS machine and I'd already tried the windows
skeleton and didn't want it. So I had been working on a virtual x86
BIOS (for direct screen-writes), running DOS with most interrupts
ready (I was going to make it compatible with FreeDOS), with an
attached high-level-assembler-interpreter (I was going to model it on
SpASM/RosAsm), with a plan to eventually implement pseudo-QEMM and
pseudo-DesqView and other typical environments (and to implement
ANSI.SYS fairly early on), and to emulate an EGA legacy video memory.
So I could program games for old DOS computers in assembler without
there being an old DOS computer anywhere in the known existence of
humankind including the spaces of scrapyards and asteroid belts. I
needed to make it~! And I needed it to be online-available from just
about any public computer, to meet my demands of availability. So I
was going to code it all in pure JAVA.

And I didn't. Instead I wrote a scathing livejournal entry about how
terrible JAVA is for programmers to read about, reference, use, or
implement, and then soon after I read a slashdot article about these
programmers who had just finished, days later, writing a scathing
report under the pay of the U.S. Air Force about defense software, how
it cannot rely on JAVA and how it cannot rely on JAVA-trained
programmers, and then I just wanted to give up.

Then I heard about 7DRL and built a header for quickly generating ANSI
codes and started on a much smaller roguelike just to make the
contest.

But I digress. Anyways, my outlines started to develope into ANSI-C. I
swear it, they "emerged". And I realised I couldn't possibly plan my
roguelike without outlines, so I trudged forward. And eventually, to
keep it all organized I was writing my notes down in a text editor and
they inevitably turned into code.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean for them to do that, because I wanted to
start on February 8th as was unscientifically reported here in RGRD.
But they are doing it themselves. I don't know if they will get done
when you said they should, and I don't know if I'm going to release
something unplayable. But I'm not working on it -- I'm just outlining
it and it's "emerging".

I didn't start with anybody's code except whoever wrote stdlib.h , and
I only have access to public computers, not my own, only certain times
of the day. So I don't think that the resulting mutation will be from
the same strain as most of the rest working here, so we should all be
safe.

Features will include:
* comes with freeansi.h, also available at http://www.lunarsurf.com/~eyenot/freeansi.h
* (above version may be slightly out of update)
* (don't cheer, it's just for my own use)
* a lot of tiles, but not all of them at once
* objects AND stairways
* a light map
* some potions
* (if source code is released) commentary will be in the source code
in some places

On Feb 6, 11:20 am, eye....DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> Well. I haven't written a roguelike before, but I've been trying to
> plan one successfully for about five or six years. Mostly or more or
> less entirely all of it on paper. I lost some notes.
>
> I put the really, really old one on the back burner, then lost it,
> then put the really old one on the back burner, then just the old one,
> then I lost both the really old and just simply normally old ones. And
> then I was planning one out recently, this year actually, and when I
> heard about the 7drl I put it on the back burner and decided to whip
> up a small, simple one just to get it out in the spirit of the
> contest.
>
> And my notes started to form some outlining, of course, to keep it all
> organized.
>
> And the outlining got really well-done and formatter, and I had to
> keep up with conventionalising my method of formatting my outlining of
> my notes, see, not really code, yet, can't have that. I hadn't gone
> past coding, yet. (I'm an amateur coder so I don't want to crawl
> through anybody else's thick commentaries and a web of #DEFINES,
> really).
>
> Actually the previous one, which I have now backburnered for the sake
> of 7drl, at first I wanted to code it in ASM very badly but I couldn't
> get ahold of an old DOS machine and I'd already tried the windows
> skeleton and didn't want it. So I had been working on a virtual x86
> BIOS (for direct screen-writes), running DOS with most interrupts
> ready (I was going to make it compatible with FreeDOS), with an
> attached high-level-assembler-interpreter (I was going to model it on
> SpASM/RosAsm), with a plan to eventually implement pseudo-QEMM and
> pseudo-DesqView and other typical environments (and to implement
> ANSI.SYS fairly early on), and to emulate an EGA legacy video memory.
> So I could program games for old DOS computers in assembler without
> there being an old DOS computer anywhere in the known existence of
> humankind including the spaces of scrapyards and asteroid belts. I
> needed to make it~! And I needed it to be online-available from just
> about any public computer, to meet my demands of availability. So I
> was going to code it all in pure JAVA.
>
> And I didn't. Instead I wrote a scathing livejournal entry about how
> terrible JAVA is for programmers to read about, reference, use, or
> implement, and then soon after I read a slashdot article about these
> programmers who had just finished, days later, writing a scathing
> report under the pay of the U.S. Air Force about defense software, how
> it cannot rely on JAVA and how it cannot rely on JAVA-trained
> programmers, and then I just wanted to give up.
>
> Then I heard about 7DRL and built a header for quickly generating ANSI
> codes and started on a much smaller roguelike just to make the
> contest.
>
> But I digress. Anyways, my outlines started to develope into ANSI-C. I
> swear it, they "emerged". And I realised I couldn't possibly plan my
> roguelike without outlines, so I trudged forward. And eventually, to
> keep it all organized I was writing my notes down in a text editor and
> they inevitably turned into code.
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't mean for them to do that, because I wanted to
> start on February 8th as was unscientifically reported here in RGRD.
> But they are doing it themselves. I don't know if they will get done
> when you said they should, and I don't know if I'm going to release
> something unplayable. But I'm not working on it -- I'm just outlining
> it and it's "emerging".
>
> I didn't start with anybody's code except whoever wrote stdlib.h , and
> I only have access to public computers, not my own, only certain times
> of the day. So I don't think that the resulting mutation will be from
> the same strain as most of the rest working here, so we should all be
> safe.
>
> Features will include:
> * comes with freeansi.h, also available athttp://www.lunarsurf.com/~eyenot/freeansi.h
> * (above version may be slightly out of update)
> * (don't cheer, it's just for my own use)
> * a lot of tiles, but not all of them at once
> * objects AND stairways
> * a light map
> * some potions
> * (if source code is released) commentary will be in the source code
> in some places

As I was ready this post I decided to read it to understand what you
are staying that is to say understand this post and then finish it
later but I finished it now so you are writing a 7drl I hope you
finish.

Good luck.