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| A video game on the back of a turtle -- 2008-11-12
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Today's game review is for King's Bounty: The Legend. I had a lot of fun playing this game, especially since I remember squandering a whole summer playing the original.
So why haven't I been writing more articles and satisfying your selfish needs? Well for one I've been busy, and two I don't need to explain myself to you. Actually let's just stick with #1.
We have been working on a series of RPG dictionaries that would allow you to generate random content based on keywords. So you write out a quest like, "Travel to *LOCATION* and retrieve *ITEM* from *MONSTER*. You will be rewarded with *SWORD*." and the game will fill in all those variables from a database. My friend is doing the programming and I have the joyful task of populating the database.
I could just make up a bunch of names, but I prefer authenticity where possible so I've been reading national epics. In the 2nd half of this year I've finished Shahnameh, the Persian national epic (and possibly the best book I've ever read) and Journey to the West, a Chinese classic. What can I say, I like to read. But it definitely does cut into my article writing time. -- sector24 |
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