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Re: [SDG-discuss] [Icehouse] Possible Zendo game at SDG

  • From"Ryan Hackel" <deeplogic@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • DateFri, 10 Mar 2006 15:34:31 -0500 (EST)

Surprised nobody's pointed out Tom Phoenix's attempt at wiki-Zendo, Zendo-Tao:

http://icehousegames.org/wiki/?title=Zendo-Tao



 --- On Fri 03/10, Alex Scouras < alexscouras@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
From: Alex Scouras [mailto: alexscouras@xxxxxxxxx]
To: 
     Cc: sdg-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:56:31 -0800
Subject: Re: [SDG-discuss] [Icehouse] Possible Zendo game at SDG

I can't recall where (and couldn't find any offhand), but I think  <br>I've seen online zendo games where people just post photographs of  <br>their koans.<br><br>If you want to roll your own, photo-zendo would be super easy to code  <br>up in SDG.<br><br>-Alex<br><br><br><br><br>On 10 Mar 2006, at 01:02, Aaron Dalton wrote:<br><br>> I'm wondering if I should simply *facilitate* online Zendo first, and<br>> then see if I can adapt the SDG paradigm.  I really like the Povray<br>> approach and Ryan McGuire's Povray includes make it so much easier.  I<br>> was thinking I could:<br>>    - create a koan creator that parses povray files and generates the<br>> image files<br>>    - create a searchable koan library so common koans don't have to be<br>> re-created every time<br>>    - create a koan requestor system so people who can't get the  <br>> hang of<br>> the povray syntax can request a given koan and somebody else can  <br>> create<br>> it for them<br>>    - provide wiki space 
for online play in whatever format seems to  <br>> work<br>> best<br>><br>> If this is something people want and would actually use, then it would<br>> be a good starting point.  I could play a few games and try to figure<br>> out the best way to adapt it to the SDG paradigm over time.  Feedback<br>> anyone?<br>><br>> I would probably animate the koans.  It's not really necessary I guess<br>> though.  Here's an example:<br>> http://superdupergames.org/images/animate.gif<br>><br>> -- <br>> Aaron Dalton       |   Super Duper Games<br>> aaron@xxxxxxxxxx   |   http://superdupergames.org<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> sdg-discuss mailing list<br>> sdg-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br>> http://superdupergames.org/mailman/listinfo/sdg-discuss<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>sdg-discuss mailing list<br>sdg-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br>http://superdupergames.org/mailman/listinfo/sdg-discuss<br>

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