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Here's a fun game. Using arrows of any type, point up to the person who posted before you, and say something about them, being as nice as possible (okay I don't mind if it's a bit naughty but don't be dumb 'kay?), then point to yourself with a left arrow and say something about you, before using a down arrow to say something about the next person to post. Example: [Fargal] posts: ^ Has a nice car < Has a piece of crap Ford Pinto v Drives a Honda? All set? Okay, I'll start! ^ The ceiling is above me and at any time may come down < Is wearing pink lipstick v Likes makeup

No one really plays games anymore. Maybe this will change it. Simple enough. The first person posts a simple premise for a story i.e. Earth is under attack by Aliens!, or John Every man must overcome all odds to lead his team to be sportball champions. The next person posts an unexpected twist to the story. After that, this person has two options. If you want to keep adding twist to the story, you're all done. The next poster's job will be to add another twist. The second option will be to post your own story premise. To keep the twists from going on endlessly, each story will be limited to 5 twists. Anyone who posts a 6th twist will be sent to a work camp. To make things clear and simple please follow this format. Story: Earth is under attack by Aliens! Twist! They are led by Chuck Norris! Then either: Double Twist! Chuck Norris has secretly been an alien this whole time. OR Story: John Every man must overcome all odds to lead his team to be sportball champions. Counting the twists as we go will make it easy to keep count. ==================================================================================================== Okay. I shall start Story: A family takes a pleasant trip to the beach.

Super Hyper Quest 2 The Sequeling Oh yes, it's happening. What's Super Hyper Quest? Well, most people will remember a little game I did where the title screen flashed up "OH MY GOD SHIT'S ON FIRE." Yeah well, that was meant to be the original Super Hyper Quest. What Will This One Be About? I honestly have no idea. I know that's not very reassuring, but keep in mind that with the last one I came up with the idea and the entire game itself in one week. With a game as random as this, it probably is better if I simply wing most of the plot. What Features Will It Have? Since I was in crunch mode for the last one, I had to use default RTP and a few clever design tricks to implement a lot of stuff I wanted. This one will have a lot of features that the last one had, but also stuff that goes outside the default RTP as well, complete with original characters, not so original music, and definitely not original SFX that I rip from other sources, but only for comedic effect. Beyond that, I want the game to switch back and forth between E'rrick and Rick, so you'll get to enjoy the story and interactions from multiple angles. How Long Will It Be? Definitely longer than the last one. After all, I don't have any major restrictions on this one. Why Should I Like It? So you can be one of the cool kids. You want to be cool, right?

There was a duck who decided one day she to try becoming a chicken. And thinking that, she decided to find a farmer to live with, and began a journey. But all in her land knew she was a duck, so she went to a new land where the farms were still being built. The first farmer who she met was building his farm strictly. She introduced herself but the moment she asked to be let in the chicken pen, the farmer yelled at her and refused to build his farm while she was there, knowing that she was a duck. So she left. The second farmer she met was building his farm more freely. She introduced herself and asked to be let in the chicken coop. The farmer wasn't paying close attention and let her. And she settled down happily. And when the farm was build, she laid many eggs for the farmer. The second farmer went to sell the eggs and noticed their unusual look. But they were still chicken eggs right? They came from the chicken coop after all. So he sold them anyway. For years he sold them, and became rich and could afford many new chickens and a team of farm hands. The other chickens payed little attention to the duck, but the duck knew she did not fit in, and felt more and more like a fraud. One day a farm hand went to the chicken coop with the duck and was confused when he heard no clucks from her. So he called out for the duck to cluck, but the duck could not, she could only quack. The farmhand quickly told the farmer, and he finally understood why some eggs were always different and became outraged and kicked the poor duck right out. The duck wandered in despair. She wondered into the woods, and ran right into a fox. "Well now..." said the fox, "what is a tasty treat like you doing here in the woods?" The duck was rightfully frightened and backed off. "You are a lucky thing, I happen to be full from eating the chickens of a poor farmer. But I am curious why you would come out here into the woods." The duck was wary but told her story, and how she had fooled the second farmer for years and felt awful about it, and how she was finally caught, and how the second farmer would have been better off if he had been like the first and never let her in the coop. The fox snickered and soon started to laugh. "Oh you feel bad eh? For what exactly?" the fox said. The duck was confused, wasn't what she did a horrible thing? The fox snickered and said "Yes perhaps that deception would have lead to disaster. But it did not. He sold your eggs and the ignorant people never complained, and he got rich off of your back. As for the first farmer..." He turned and motioned for her to follow. She, daring not to disobey did so, and soon was led to a small and poorly maintained farm. "Look" said the fox, " at what has become of him!" And there was the first farmer, struggling in back breaking labor. The duck was confused and asked why this would happen. "Because, " said the fox, "he was too much a perfectionist. Everything had to be right, everything in it's proper place, nothing even slightly off could be allowed. He spent so much time building the farm just right, making sure nothing was wrong. Except he was not perfect. I stuck in after all. Killed and ate his chickens again and again. The farmer that you worked for was too clever, too fast. Everytime I tried to sneak in he would come up with some way of keeping me out. It wasn't that sophisticated at first, but he would notice me and change things too quick for me to get far. He found problems and fixed them quickly and simply. This one was lost in his perfect idea of structure." "Maybe, " mused the fox, "things would have good differently if I would not have shown up, or if I had been stopped. Maybe this one's perfect structure would have made him more successful in the long run if he had more help. Maybe even it would have worked better with a different profession. I don't know. But what's done is done." The duck wondered herself. "I will leave you for now... " said the fox. "I am not yet hungry and you would make too much noise anyway. But just remember I am lurking. You don't want me to catch you when I am more hungry, do you?" The fox chuckled and walked away leaving the duck with her thoughts. Maybe it wasn't so bad to not check if something was pretending to be something else sometimes? If it helped get the job done. Still, she was going home. She was done being a chicken. It was time to be a duck again. Or at least something that quacked like one.

You think I am just a hopeless nerd And you've played so many games I guess it might be so But still I can not see If the hopeless one is me How can there be so much that you don't know? You don't know... You think there is no art in the programs A program is just a dead thing that runs the game But I know every sprite and thing and feature Is an object, has a class, has a name You think that the only some art matters Only the graphics or the story or the sound But if you take a look behind the surface You'll find things you never would have found Have you ever found the wonder of the code Or danced with the numbers and the strings? Can you design the classes of the objects? Can you code with the completeness of Turing? Can you code with the completeness of Turing? Come learn the wonders of recursion Come risk a bit of pointer math Come take joy in the algorithms all around you And for once, never worry about feedback The object and the function are my brothers The method and the lambda are my friends And it is all connected to each other All just machine code in the end And how was this game made? You never look to the program you won't know You will never see the classes or the objects You will never see the completeness of Turing You can play the game an still All you can see is the game until You can code with the completeness of Turing (inspired by some of the discussion on this thread, see if you can figure out the tune it's meant to go with)

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