Let's Play GenGame

[PhantomFox]

Either that or con someone into doing it for you. Or at least the grunt work of it.

[Mercenary Pen]

Re: getting others to do the job for you, wouldn't that be roughly akin to getting a hundred Genmonkeys using Gensoft Word in the hope that they might type out the completed Genworks of Genshakespeare by accident- or do you guys trust us a little more than that?

(Also bump due to invisible post)

[Domochevsky]

What the hell is up with this "yo, let's not show the next page" of the forum lately...

(As far as roping other people into this goes... that's kinda what i did with AJ already for making the archive in the first place. )

[Mercenary Pen]

What the hell is up with this "yo, let's not show the next page" of the forum lately...

(As far as roping other people into this goes... that's kinda what i did with AJ already for making the archive in the first place. )

Well, in my case at least it was a 'Service temporarily unavailable' when I posted, but the post got through...

[factotum]

What the hell is up with this "yo, let's not show the next page" of the forum lately...

It always seems to do that--if a new thread page has only a single post on it, it won't display it. You need to add another post to see the invisible one!

[Slartibartfast]

At the very least the issues are already named, so we don't have to worry about trying to name 200 comics while we're leafing through them. I'm sure you could find loyal readers to help index the comics for you if you hand them the tools and tell them what to do. It worked with the wiki, right? You just put all the tools out there and then I started changing things.

At the same time that this is all a lot of work that we are demanding be done, we acknowledge that you, as the writers, are already doing a lot of work. Plus, you're the writers, you get leeway. Making us do the administrative paperwork is kinda like our tool to be able to view the comic with such heightened ease.

...I might be able to index the comics. I'm not sure I could get through all of them before school starts, but I should at least be able to make some headway to pave the road for whoever picks up the task afterwords. Which, given the availability most of the people who work on the Genverse have, might also be me after I get settled into college routine. Or we could just wait for Joe to do it, I can't say I care. Ok, maybe I care a little, but mostly just so I can have bragging rights for having done the work.

[averagejoe]

What the hell is up with this "yo, let's not show the next page" of the forum lately...

It's some sort of bug in the forum software that happens when there's only one post on the new page. As far as I know, no one knows anything that can be done about it, other than hitting, "Reply."

Yeah, I'd totally be up for other people doing the hard work for me. I'll whip up some sort of organization for the thing a little later.

[Mercenary Pen]

It's some sort of bug in the forum software that happens when there's only one post on the new page. As far as I know, no one knows anything that can be done about it, other than hitting, "Reply."

In this case it was compounded by the subsequent post being hit by a similar bug that pops up after 500 errors.

[averagejoe]

Alright, if people want to help with making a proper index for the website, here's the format we've decided on for each reference:

<span style="color: [“blue” if it’s a BH command, “seagreen” if it’s MG, and “cyan” if it’s SM, black otherwise];"><p style="text-align: left;">[strip number (counting the number of posts)]&gt; <strong><a title="[Title of the page, minus the “>”]" href="?p=[reference number of the page (the numbers at the end of the page’s URL)]">[title of the page, minus the “>”]</a></strong></p></span>

So an example would be:

<span style="color: blue;"><p style="text-align: left;">4&gt; <strong><a title="Gender: Female Class: Spy" href="?p=217">Gender: Female Class: Spy</a></strong></p></span>

And, when posted, that should show up as:

4> Gender: Female Class: Spy

Note that the ==>’s should be written “==&gt;” so as not to mess up the html.

They should be numbered with the lower numbers on the top, so:
1> Chapter 1: Its a Generic World After All
2> /Join Game
3> Cheat to unlock the restricted classes
and so on.

This will probably go down easier if more people work on it, so doing this all as a wiki page might be prudent. It can just be deleted when we’re done.

Thanks in advance to anyone who helps.

[Slartibartfast]

Awesome. I don't actually have time to work on it today, but I'll go set up a wiki page called "Comic Index" to store the data on. I put the page up in the top bar so people can get at it easily.

Personally, I think we might want to consider other colors for when the Enemy Team does commands (JH and KB specifically, and that pink mechanomancer/whatever chick). But no rush, for the most part they don't do much, so even retrofitting that would be minimal effort.

[averagejoe]

Awesome. I don't actually have time to work on it today, but I'll go set up a wiki page called "Comic Index" to store the data on. I put the page up in the top bar so people can get at it easily.

Personally, I think we might want to consider other colors for when the Enemy Team does commands (JH and KB specifically, and that pink mechanomancer/whatever chick). But no rush, for the most part they don't do much, so even retrofitting that would be minimal effort.

Actually a good point. Where either, "Blue," "Seagreen," and, "Cyan," would be, here's what it is for the enemy team:

JH: #b89c00
SD: #e012d6
KB: Red

Yeah, JH and SD are kind of a pain.

Thanks so much. I'll be helping out as much as I can.

[Domochevsky]

Ohai guys, i hear there's now ad space on GitP...

[flabort]

It would be appropriate, I think.

After all, GenGame originated here. May as well advertise it to those who haven't seen it yet.

[flabort]

Apologies for double post, but I just saw one of the ads for Gengame. Looks sweet in the bottom banner. A little familiar, maybe...
It's going to be some good publicity

[BRC]

Is it just me, or is Wildwestscifi down?

[Mercenary Pen]

Is it just me, or is Wildwestscifi down?

Not just you, I've been trying on and off most of the afternoon to load the latest one.

[Draconi Redfir]

i havent been able to get on since last night.

Let just hope it crashed because the ads worked too well :P

[Domochevsky]

Heh, may as well have been. We were doing server-wide maintenance, which included a complete reformat/OS-change of the server, moving databases and so on. I'm currently in the process of final cleanup and we should be back in half an hour tops.

[thereaper]

Well, I finally clicked that link.

...That sword was part of the interface?! That's Genius!!!

Needless to say, I'm hooked. How did I not notice this gem until now?

[Mercenary Pen]

...That sword was part of the interface?! That's Genius!!!

Needless to say, I'm hooked. How did I not notice this gem until now?

Well, news is, you can be part of the genius, and we have no idea how you didn't notice it until now...[/snarky comments]

[flabort]

Yeah, it's one of the best. I'd say the best, and will, since the only one that I'd say was competing for that title is ended now (Digger was awesome, too).

So, Gengame IS. THE. BEST.

Now, excuse me, I have to [Go order some Gencola], and then drink some Gencola.

[BurntSquirrel]

Domochevsky, I have finally written down the basics for the game. It is right here. I probably missed a lot of things (as it took me three days to write and I lost my train of thought a few times), but that's what editing is for.

[Domochevsky]

Ohsnap! :O

Looking forward to how this will turn out.

(Also: Woo, another reader gained! \o/ )

[flabort]

That looks pretty cool, burntsquirrel.
I'll be following.

Don't forget the most important part of any Genproduct, though: [frequent references to Gencola]. And, of course, [Gencola].

[thereaper]

One thing that's been bothering me is whether the first "G" in GenGame is pronounced like the "G" in "General" or like the "G" in "Guess"?

[Draconi Redfir]

think it would be the General G. Since the "Gen" comes from the word "Generic"

[Slartibartfast]

I'd say the system BurntSquirrel made up is passable, but it doesn't go hardcore. I want a system that goes all the way. Just me being greedy I guess. Perhaps I'll DM a game of GenGame someday. Or who knows? I know how to program, and I'm surrounded by Video Game Design majors. I might actually MAKE GenGame! Oh, yeah, I should prolly give credit to Domo and the boards if I do though. I guess. If I have to.

[Draconi Redfir]

After seeing this, i'm starting to think we should do a gengame rave party (with a blue background? :P). we can all draw a character or two dancing!


i got dibs on CC #001 and Caddybear

[Domochevsky]

I support this notion.

[thereaper]

These things may have been discussed previously (and if so I apologize), but...

What the heck was behind the wall here?

And what was with all those other genres on the genre grid besides Inept Informer here, here, here, and here?