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[PrejudiceSucks]

OK, I've been learning how to code IF games and can basically code pretty much anything for you.

I still need someone with DOS to compile them though.

Anyway, ideas...

I've already got Fo' Shizzle Snuggly Jumpers (or something) from Raffles, but any ideas would be good.

P.S. no 'CAN I BE NI! ITT!!1! IO CD JTUS HAV A SMAL LPART!!!'

or any of that lark. It's not going to happen, ok?

[Himmler]

Ideas?what is it going to look like?text-based?

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, what sort of ideas would you like? A storyline, you mean?

Aliens Stole My Snuggly Jumpers, Fo' Shizzle
Spazzizzle Hip-Hizzle is slightly miffed. A bunch of Alien burglars have invaded his home in Shropshire and stolen ALL of his snuggly jumpers. Can't have that, obviously. So now he has to look for clues as to where those aliens came from, find a means of getting to their planet and - last but not least - retrieve his jumpers...

If you're feeling adventurous, you could try fiddling with the parser, so it only recognises 'shizzly' commands. Might be a bit too complicated, though...

[PrejudiceSucks]

Yeah, that's the whole point of them, although if anyone particuarly wanted me to do one with images too I probably could, I've never tried those before, but I do have TADS as well as Inform, so it could be done.

Oh and Shizzly commands would be piss-easy, you have to program the stuff to be pickupable and things, and also have to tell them what to do after a certain thing has been done...

for example, after 'have a lizzle' (examine) something will bring up it's Description tag. After you pick something up (with some shizzly way of that) it will bring up a message and be in your inventory.

Not sure about the aliens, but a fo' shizzle game with snuggly jumpers sounds like a plan. I'm not reallyl into the whole 'aliens' lark. I like realistic games and/or odd comedy games. But aliens are way off the menu.

[A. J. Raffles]

I'd say do the text-based stuff first. If it's a huge success, you can always do a remake with images later on...

[PrejudiceSucks]

Yeah, indeed. I don't want to do about 100 images for each environment if noboy is gonna play them.

[A. J. Raffles]

Fine, no aliens, then. What about pirates? A lot of potential for silly dialogues. Or zombies. They need the snuggly jumpers for the, erm, life energy preserved in them.

[PrejudiceSucks]

How's about a suicidal rapper...

[A. J. Raffles]

That's Spazzizzle Hip-Hizzle himself, though, isn't it? Hey, that's a good idea: on top of everything else you need to keep your hero from committing suicide...

[PrejudiceSucks]

Aye. In one of the games I'm making it basically revolves around your town beign invaded while you're at school, so you run home with your girlfriend, get supplies and the like and at the end of the game, depending on the amount of bullets you have left in a stolen pistol, either your girlfriend kills herself and you shoot yourself too, there are no bullets left for either of you to die, or the worst ending IMO, she commits suicide and you are left to walk alone.

[A. J. Raffles]

Why go through all that hassle of getting supplies and the like only to kill yourself at the end, though? You might have jumped at a stray bullet straight away...

Anyway: Spazzizzle Hip-Hizzle's depressed because 1) his girlfriend has left him for a blues singer, 2) nobody thinks he's a talented rapper, and he's beginning to have doubts about that himself, actually, 3) he is currently out of work, 4) his dog Mizzle died three days ago and of course 5) all his snuggly jumpers have been stolen. So your tasks in the game would be to steal back the girlfriend, convince people of your, erm, shizzility, get a job and a cat (Twizzle) - and get back the jumpers.
Spazzizzle will attempt to kill himself if too much time has passed and he hasn't managed to achieve any of these things.

[PrejudiceSucks]

You kill yourself because there's like... nothing left... you've lost your family, your home, your girlfriend. And the will to live.

Hmm the snuggly jumpers thing could be related to your ex. Maybe she left you and, at the same time set your snuggly jumpers on fire just to spite you.

Also, we won't give the character a stupid name, just a stupid MC name. Like your real name is John or something, but you're Ash Dizzle by night.

Fo' Shizzle.

[A. J. Raffles]

OK, but John should intensely dislike his name and hate being addressed as John.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Yeah. He prefers 'The Big Jizzle' or something. Maybe something less... pornographic...

Well this seems like a two-man effort, with one of the men being female...

[BeefontheBone]

- the second part of that post was at least as pornographic as the first part