[ANNOUNCE] Umbra role-playing game 0.2 pre-alpha
Matt Dunford
kno at jtan.com
Tue Apr 17 09:36:44 EDT 2001
* 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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