sorgatz@ttidca.TTI.COM ( Avatar) (09/19/90)
In article <F!uz0&02@cs.psu.edu> okunewck@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Phil OKunewick) writes:
+ObHack: A Generic dungeon. You supply the map, rooms, objects, puzzles,
+and challenges (as a text file), and it does the rest. (No operational
+version, yet.)
+Variation: a random dungeon. Take the generic dungeon database, and use
+a random number generator to draw the map and assign the rooms. Better
+yet, use an active generator to continuously remap a maze when somebody
+is lost in it. Or, what th' heck - if you're in a nasty mood, remap the
+entire dungeon a little bit at a time, as a person travels through it.
+--
+ ---Phil
Ancient idea. I built a version of the Fortran based "Adventure" in 1979
that did both of these. The "-r" random switch could build some really
nasty little twisty passages..all the same/different, it would drive you
ape! The only bummer was the amount of time it took (on a fairly loaded
DEC 20/60) to actually build the damn tables. If you remember the table
layout, there were a pair of numbers denoting the object, room, etc,
locations. Then there was a series of connector descriptors. Hence, the
only thing that was a constant was the startup location of the Well
House.. it then hit the random number pot for everything else, checking
first to make sure that the combination had not already been used. Took
about an hour to run, then it saved the dungeon and sent you mail. The
interactive (what you call generic) or custom version, had a menu. You
could specify the sequence necessary to get from one room to another,
specify where to put the treasures, enable or disable the thief, etc. It
was a real pain to code and it was huge. I never did try to add the
dynamic pathway modification hack so I could fuck with people already
playing a dungeon..might be fun.
-Avatar-> (aka: Erik K. Sorgatz) KB6LUY +-------------------------+
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(OPINIONS EXPRESSED DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF CITICORP OR ITS MANAGEMENT!)lum@junk.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lum Johnson) (09/20/90)
In article <F!uz0&02@cs.psu.edu> okunewck@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Phil OKunewick) writes: > > ... A Generic dungeon. You supply the map, rooms, objects, puzzles, > and challenges (as a text file), and it does the rest. ... > Variation: a random dungeon. Take the generic dungeon database, and use > a random number generator to draw the map and assign the rooms. ... About 1981 I rewrote a "fast food"-style dungeon dresser in assembly language. Most of the details appear in the excerpt from the commentary below. In article <19889@ttidca.TTI.COM> sorgatz@ttidca.TTI.COM ( Avatar) writes: > > Ancient idea. I built a version of the Fortran based "Adventure" in > 1979 that did both of these. The "-r" random switch could build > some really nasty little twisty passages..all the same/different ... This does sound pretty neat... Care to trade sources? I'll see whether I can find something that _isn't_ in assembly language, in case you've lost your 20/60 - ours will be going away at about year's end as well. :-( title McDngn -- "Fast Food"-style Dungeon Dresser -- LUM/KEJ subttl Lum (J Columbus) Johnson II and Keith E Jackson sall ; suppress list of all macro expansions .direc flblst ; list first line (only) of binary search monsym,macsym,cmd ; get symbol definitions .requi sys:macrel,sys:cmd ; get supporting code stdac. ; standard AC definitions ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; McDngn -- 3/6/81 -- LUM/KEJ ; ; Copyright (c) 1981, 1985, 1990 by The Ohio State University and the authors. ; ; This program was designed in PL/I by Rick McGuire, ; redesigned in BASIC by Keith Jackson, ; and redesigned in MACRO by Lum Johnson. ; ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; SPECIFICATION ; ; This program is not a complete A D & D game, but merely an aid ; to the DM (Dungeon Master). Characteristics may be chosen or ; randomly generated for as many rooms as the DM wishes. ; ; The DM names the dungeon and level to generate, and gives the ; base level and percentage probabilities of monsters or treasure ; appearing and how many rooms to generate. (Wherever a monster ; appears, treasure is more likely to appear there also.) ; ; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mcdver==1 ; major version mcdmin==0 ; minor version mcdedt==^d114 ; edit version mcdwho==0 ; DM (0=developer) subttl table of contents ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; TABLE OF CONTENTS ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; Section Subsection macro/routine Page ; ; Specification 1 ; Table of Contents 2 ; Program Structure 3 ; Constants and Data 4 ; ; Macros ; Typeout: tmsg tcrmsg titem tnmbr tstr 5 ; Printout: pmsg pcrmsg pitem pnmbr pstr 6 ; Error: %jserr %ermsg 7 ; Tables: table endtab item m t 8 ; Misc: chatrs maxtrs pick roll potof summon 9 ; ; Main program routine 10 ; ; Random feature routines: ; furnis genera mist monstr 11-14 ; odor plenty sound trap 15-18 ; ; Utility routines: ; header trailr (begin and end work on room) 19 ; ignchk ignlst (ignore some rooms) 20 ; lvlarg (set level params) 21 ; trsarg (set treasure params) 22 ; ; Lists of Items ; Furnishings 23 ; General (junk, trash and crud) 24 ; Mists: Colors Smells 25-26 ; Odors (of rooms, not mists) 27 ; Sounds 28 ; Traps 29 ; ; Lists of Monsters ; levels and monsters 30 ; 1st level -- 16th level 31-46 ; Templates 47 ; ; Error and file handling: ; fatal warn opnfil clsfil 48 ; ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- subttl program structure ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; PROGRAM STRUCTURE ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; start ; | ; ------------------------------------------------------------- ; | | | | | | ; lvlarg trsarg ignlst opnfil new-room clsfil ; | ; ------------------------------------------------------------- ; | | | | ; header ignchk random-feature-generators trailr ; | ; ------------------------------------------------------------- ; | | | | | | | | ; odor sound genera furnis trap mist monstr plenty ; ; The main routine, at start, requests parameters, an optional list of rooms ; to ignore, at the DM's discretion, and opens the output file. ; ; For each new room, a header is written, the room is checked to see whether ; it is on the list of rooms to be ignored, and, if not, various features are ; generated for the room and written to its description. ; ; If there is a mist, there cannot be a monster. If there is a monster, ; the chance of treasure rises (by 10% default). ; ; When the rooms are finished, the file is closed and the program is halted. ; it may be CONTINUEd to prepare additional levels. ; ; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Lum Johnson lum@cis.ohio-state.edu lum@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu "You got it kid -- the large print giveth and the small print taketh away." -------