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[A. J. Raffles]

So you'd consider Margaret Thatcher pornographic as well, then? That's a female man if ever I saw one...

[BeefontheBone]

Oh, so not one of you thinks power is sexy? </Cleveland impression>

[PrejudiceSucks]

*shudders* Bleh... neo-right winger...

Anyway, Beef, do you want to get involved with the project?

Also, anyone up for learning how to code IF?

[Doc Adrian]

I am looking forward to seeing something done with this, and would love to give it a whirl..though I might need some help learning the parser vocabulary- will their be  anyway to get a FAQ for a poor yank that might want to give it a go?

[A. J. Raffles]

That's a good idea. You could call it "What's thizzle?" - The key commands explained for non-rappers

[PrejudiceSucks]

Genius...

Now - Book Two - How to manipulizzle the parsizzle in hip-hizzle.

So is anyone up for learning IF?

That way, we can work on this together and hence a lot faster.

[A. J. Raffles]

I'd love to, but I know nothing about manipulizzling the parsizzle in hip-hizzle, unfortunately, and I don't really have the time to read through 600-page manuals either. Sorry.

[PrejudiceSucks]

No prob, I only read about 100 pages of it and that's all ok, but if you don't want to then that's ok.

Also, the coding part is quite easy, it's the making soemthing decent part that's hard.

[A. J. Raffles]

Seriously, I don't think I could. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to computers. I could try and do descriptions and the like, though.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Seriously, all doing a description is is entering some text like this (can't remember exactly, but I've got one done at home) :

Withdesc "This has a description now"

That's it...

An object is like:

Object 'yourname for the object' in 'a room',
Withname 'Object' 'Thing' 'Doobrie' 'Objizzle' 'Thizzle' 'Doobrizzle',
Withdesc "Fo' Shizzle! A doobrizzle!",
With Scenerystatic (if you can't pick it up);

[A. J. Raffles]

See? That already confused me. So you're not planning to do detailed room descriptions, then?

[PrejudiceSucks]

All the stuff I typed means is :

It's an object, which is called '*whatever* for editor purposes, in '*a room*'
The player can call it '*stuff*' to make it do anything.
If you examined it, it would say '*description*'
And you can't pick it up.

Rooms are ok, doors are a bit harder.

[A. J. Raffles]

But shouldn't we have a general idea of what's going to happen in the game before you can start with the actual coding?

First we need some sort of intro:

"Life sucks: You're an unemployed rapper, but nobody thinks you're any good at it (you're beginning to have doubts about that yourself, actually). Your yellow lab Mizzle died three days ago, and as if that wasn't enough to make you feel depressed, your girlfriend Tracy has just left you for a blues singer - to annoy you, it seems, since blues is the kind of music you've always despised. You return home feeling somewhat suicidal. But at least you know a good remedy for that: put on a nice snuggly jumper and all's right with the world... wait a minute... there's something wrong here... AAARGGHH! Somebody has stolen all your jumpers!

Fo' Shizzle Productions presents:

ALIENS/ZOMBIES/PIRATES/THE FRENCH STOLE MY SNUGGLY JUMPERS, FO' SHIZZLE!

etc."

[PrejudiceSucks]

This is a Reloaded production...

*put some depressing, low-beat hip-hop in through TADS*

You're an unemployed rapper with nowhere to go. You pissed off the Post Office and now you can't even get a giro. Left school at 14, your SATS results won't exactly get you far and your performances as Ash Dizzle aren't going anywhere.

Your girlfriend has left you for a blues singer, the end of Soul music that you hate the most.

All you have left is a pistol, a sleeping bag, and your jumpers.

And then it hits you. They've been stolen...

No Jumpers for you - a journey through the Fo' shizzle life of an underage rapper...

[A. J. Raffles]

Oh, he's underage as well, then? Now that IS depressing.