Caltrops - Enter the Matrix





	[quote name="Bananadine"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I made a post about this - it will show up on the text game aggregate blog, <a href="http://www.planet-if.com/">Planet IF</a> shortly, if it's not there already. Unfortunately, it seems as if the sheer stupidity of chatrouletters is making this not at awesome as it should be.[/quote] Yeah, it's hard enough to find a person who'll keep up a conversation with a <i>human</i>, let alone with an inscrutable robot. My plan here had been to find a few people who'd actually get into a game a little bit, and then harass or help or just baffle them with some manually typed text. I didn't know what I would say or whether it would be funny, but I thought I'd figure something out. But as we have seen, it's prohibitively difficult to get even that far, with these Strangers and these games. I think it might have been a bad idea to use a Glulx interpreter, since the whole point of Glulx, at least from the perspective of a game author who comes into the IF world via Inform, is that it allows large games to be made. I'm sure there are games out there that'd work better. But the ideal isn't really to get some random person to make a lot of progress through an ordinary text adventure--that probably wouldn't be very entertaining (although I guess it could be, with the right person). So this is the point where I either start writing a couple of small games that work well with Omegle (in Video mode, if possible--Omegle has a Video mode now), or lose interest and drift away. Also: I originally intended to use Chatroulette but I don't have a camera and Chatroulette no longer accepts people without cameras.[/quote]