Re: [s-d] Re: A query.

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Peter Cooper Jr. wrote:

> "Mark Walsh" <flutesultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I'd like to clear up a few things to make Ministerial duties
> > simpler to perform.
> >
> > I assume that there must be a way to modify a Template.
> > I'd like to modify the Talisman Template to bring it to be
> > in accordance with the current Talisman form as is defined
> > in the Rules.
>
> The templates are wiki pages just like anything else. Just do a search
> on the wiki for the template page you're looking for, bring it up, and
> modify it.

In particular, any page whose name ends in "Template" (case-sensitive) 
will show up in the list of templates when you're creating a new page. 
There are also some substitution patterns you can use, such as @PAGE@ 
for the title of the page. On normal pages these are expanded when you 
save, but for Template pages they're only expanded for the pages that 
use the Template.

See http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnPageCreation for more info, 
and the full list of substitution patterns.

> > I can also see benefits in changing the Haunted House
> > Rooms listings to be objects (similar to Talismans). This
> > would involve creating a Generic Room Template. I'm
> > not sure, but I conceive that game states such as Player
> > Location and Lit/Dark might be more easliy updated
> > and displayed via this methodology. (In Talismans,
> > changing a single page nets results in numerous
> > displays (i.e. inventories)).
>
> Your best bet is to look at how the Talisman pages work and copy them
> as best you can... Wonko can probably tell you more, since he wrote
> them.

The engine handling the Talismans is pretty specific. Given a set of 
objects and a set of locations, it tracks copies of those objects that 
are moved amongst the locations. A similar system could be developed 
for the House, but it would take time and I doubt I'd have enough time 
to do it by myself.

A database-driven architecture for the whole game might be in order, 
especially given Peter's recent proposals unifying everything as 
"Objects". Every object could be stored in a database, providing easy 
lookups and searches; we code build code into the wiki for reading and 
modifying them. Adding new types of Objects or new fields to existing 
types could probably be abstracted out into some interface that didn't 
require any changing of code. That would allow us to add arbitrary game 
objects and track and sort them without needing to alter the code.

Given this system, we could also automate things like the Map, perhaps 
with GraphViz, but this would require programming to maintain.

It would be pretty cool, though - GraphViz dynamically generates graphs 
in the style of the House Map, but can also automatically generate html 
image maps. So, for example, we could automatically update the House 
and have each room link to a description page.

--
Wonko

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
                -- Buckminster Fuller

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