Not A Game

[vrld]

This was laying around my hd for some while now. I always wanted to work on it further making it more of that thing originally intended. But I realized I probably never will, so I give you:

Not A Game

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As the title says, it's not intended to be a game. It's up to you to decide what it is.

The code is somewhat messy. I don't understand most of it anymore. So be warned when you look at it.

[T-Bone]

It was fun! However, it does not respond well at all to my Xbox 360 gamepad, which gives a -1 on the L-button when not pressed (which your game interprets as that I want to walk to the left). Only use the first axis. Could be a Linux issue of course, but still.

[Robin]

Nice. Very nice. The shadow-thingy is something I wanted to do for quite a while, but couldn't figure out how to do it well. I like the GlaDOS like commentary and I especially like the "ending".

[kikito]

Wee! I'm a hero!

[slime]

Nice to see your shadow stuff finally being used.

[sn0wex]

very awesome

[Larsii30]

impressive o.O

[LiquidDandruff]

very cool!

i was wondering how you made the glyphs though, what did you use to generate the vertices?

[pahatma]

I liked it, a lot

very visually attractive

[vrld]

i was wondering how you made the glyphs though, what did you use to generate the vertices?

I wrote a small script to create the glyphs. You draw lines by clicking and holding the left mouse button and accept a glyph with the right mouse button. 'c' clears the glyph vertices and 'd' deletes the last line. The glyph list is written to the terminal, e.g.:

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GLYPHS = {
	["A"] = { width = 0.455041, height = 1.000000, vertices = {0, 1, 0.26158038147139, 0, 0.26158038147139, 0, 0.43596730245232, 0.98637602179837, 0.002724795640327, 0.52861035422343, 0.4550408719346, 0.61852861035422} },
	["C"] = { width = 0.441261, height = 1.000000, vertices = {0.38395415472779, 0, 0, 0.48710601719198, 0, 0.48710601719198, 0.44126074498567, 1} },
	["B"] = { width = 0.615176, height = 1.000000, vertices = {0.08130081300813, 0.1029810298103, 0.073170731707317, 0.99728997289973, 0.021680216802168, 0, 0.53658536585366, 0.41463414634146, 0.53658536585366, 0.41463414634146, 0.056910569105691, 0.58807588075881, 0.056910569105691, 0.58807588075881, 0.61517615176152, 0.7940379403794, 0.61517615176152, 0.7940379403794, 0, 1} },
	["E"] = { width = 0.623529, height = 1.000000, vertices = {0.017647058823529, 0, 0.041176470588235, 0.93235294117647, 0.041176470588235, 0.93235294117647, 0.6, 1, 0, 0.52058823529412, 0.58529411764706, 0.51470588235294, 0.0058823529411765, 0.0058823529411765, 0.62352941176471, 0.020588235294118} },
}