Re: [spoon-discuss] Ow.

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 11:22  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> Okay, my head is starting to hurt.  If the ruleset is a Cadillac, and 
> the players are morons with shotguns, I'm not quite sure, after all 
> the blasts, just how much of the actual car is remaining.
>
> Rather than focusing on what we want to blow away, has anyone thought 
> about what we actually want to keep?  Like, should someone at least 
> remove the tires and radio first?

I've got some design sketches for the Grid Mark Three... Or at least, a 
framework for making it.

{{
__Spaces__

There exist objects called Locations. A Location is an object that can 
contain other objects. It represents a physical place in some space.

There exist objects called Environments. An Environment is a collection 
of Locations. No object may exist in more than one Location within the 
same Environment unless a rule specifically permits it. No Location may 
be part of more than one Environment unless a rule specifically permits 
it.
An Environment represents a world with many places in it.

All Environments must be named; Locations need not be named, but there 
must be some way to distinguish between any two Locations. [[Thus, 
(row,col) pairs are acceptable within an Environment; the containing 
Environment may be used to distinguish between Locs in different Envs.]]

The Administrator may force any proposal to be Shelved if that proposal 
creates a new Environment without also providing for a Ministry to 
track the state of said Environment.
}}

{{
__Space Objects__

A $ENVIRONMENT object, where $ENVIRONMENT is the name of an extant 
environment, is an object which may occupy a location in the named 
environment. An object that is not specified by the rules as being an 
object of a certain environment is assumed not to be, except for 
players, which are assumed to be objects of all environment unless the 
rules say otherwise.

Objects that can be in a given environment may only enter/leave 
locations in that environment according to the rules.
}}

{{
__The Grid__

There exists an Environment called The Grid. Grid Locations may be 
referred to as Squares, provided that the context makes it clear what 
is being referred to.

The Grid contains 400 Squares. Each Square is identified by a pair of 
integers, the Square's x coordinate and its y coordinate. Each of these 
is an integer from 1 to 20 (inclusive). There is one Square for every 
possible (x,y) pair.

Two Squares are Rectalinearly Consecutive if they have the same x 
value, and their y values differ by 1, or vice versa. Two Squares are 
Diagonally Consecutive if both their x and y values differ by 1. Two 
Squares are Consecutive if they are Rectalinearly and Diagonally 
consecutive.
}}

{{
__Grid Movement__

Any Grid Object may make a Grid Move, which is a shift from one Square 
to a consecutive Square, once per Checking Period. Such moves take 
affect at the end of the Checking Period, in the order in which they 
were performed. If an attempted move is illegal, it does not occur.
}}

--
Wonko

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