[ANNOUNCE] Umbra role-playing game 0.2 pre-alpha

[Matt Dunford]

* Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes <kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>:
>   Umbra is a computer role-playing game written in Python, similar to
> Alternate Reality and Bard's Tale, with influences from roguelike games
> and console RPGs, and set in a universe of Lovecraftian elder gods.
> 
>   Umbra features random generation of a huge game world, 3-D graphics
> (well, sorta; don't laugh unless you can do better!  I can do better, so
> I can laugh at my own...), and not a lot else yet.
> 
> <http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/Umbra.html>
> 
>   Right now, I mostly just want feedback on performance and the
> interface, if it works on your machine, if I'm completely insane to be
> writing a game like this in Python, why there are two Arthurian items in
> the town for testing (and there may be a Grail somewhere!), or whatever.
> 
>   I'll likely go open source with it once it's a bit further along, but
> don't expect that for a while.
> 

Works great on my system.  Not slow at all.  I'm using Python 2.0 on
Mandrake 7.2.  I'd love to see the source!  :))

One criticism.  I can't stand the movement dialog box that pops up in
the Tk version.  It would be nice if you could hide that.

But overall, an impressive little project.

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