March 2004

• Quick question SSL Mats Lidstrom
• Player Justice (was: Character Restraint & Capture (bounty hunting)) Damion Schubert
• Player Justice Paul Schwanz
• • Player Justice Damion Schubert
  • • Player Justice Freeman, Jeff
  • Player Justice Koster, Raph
  • • Player Justice Michael Sellers
    • • Player Justice Koster, Raph
      • • Player Justice Matt Mihaly
      • Player Justice Freeman, Jeff
    • Player Justice Paul Schwanz
• Quick question SSL...solution? ceo
• The Economic Model - as a Game Matt Chatterley
• • The Economic Model - as a Game j0hn@mistydale.com
• Parser engines Brian Hook
• • Parser engines Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
  • Parser engines Malcolm W. Tester II
  • • Parser engines Mike Rozak
    • • Parser engines Miroslav Silovic
        On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 18:48, Mike Rozak wrote:
        
        > For example: Japanese (3 character sets, no spaces, verb at end,
        > enter text with an IME), Chinese (2 character sets, no spaces,
        > enter text with an IME), Arabic (non-Roman character set, enter
        > text with an IME, ???), or even Finnish (which I've been told
        > likes to combine verbs and nouns, or something of the sort). The
        > Inform designers guide discusses porting to English's cousins like
        > French and German, but not the more distant language groups.
        
        Being a native speaker of a Slavic language (Croatian, to be
        precise), I can tell you that any heavily inflected language is a
        real chore to work with. It's not just parsing, even outputting a
        barely grammatically correct prose (without worrying about the
        style) is quite a bit of a challenge. The problem is that output
        grammar is heavily context-sensitive. For example (dog = pas, bird ptica, black = crn):
        
        You see a black bird. Vidis crnu pticu.
        You see a black dog. Vidis crnog psa.
        You see two black dogs. Vidis dva crna psa.
        You see five black dogs. Vidis pet crnih pasa.
        You<plural> see a black dog. Vidite crnog psa.
        _You_ see a black bird. Ti vidis crnu pticu.
        Black dog bit you. Crni pas te je ugrizao.
        Black bird bit you. Crna ptica te je ugrizla.
        Black bird bit _you_. Crna ptica je ugrizla tebe.
        
        Note different cases for numbers 1, 2-4, >4, the verb form depending
        on the subject's gender, elided subjects ('you' has to be elided
        from the first 5 sentences, otherwise the sentence means that _you_
        (and not somebody else) see something), and adjectives mutating
        depending on their own case and on the gender of their noun. While
        Croatian only has 7 noun cases, which is significantly fewer than 16
        from Finnish, it has oodles of declinations that are impossible to
        get right without resorting to a rather unwieldy dictionary.
      • • Parser engines Mike Rozak
        • Parser engines Artur Biesiadowski
      • Parser engines Jason Slaughter
      • • Parser engines Mike Rozak
        • • Parser engines Travis Casey
      • Parser engines Nathan Yospe
  • Parser engines ext.Christer.Enfors@tietoenator.com
  • • Parser engines Sean Middleditch
  • Parser engines T. Alexander Popiel
  • Parser engines Lars Duening
  • Parser engines Brian Hook
  • • Parser engines Helps Family
    • • Parser engines Travis Casey
    • Parser engines Robert Zubek
  • Parser engines Brian Hook
• Meet & Greet IV Anthony R. Haslage
• N00b question Matthew Turland
• • N00b question Peter Harkins
• [good] N00b question Manuel Lanctot
• Player Justice Brian 'Psychochild' Green
• • Player Justice John Buehler
  • • Player Justice Damion Schubert
    • Player Justice Jester
    • • Player Justice Baar - Lord of the Seven Suns
      • • Player Justice cruise
        • Player Justice Jeff Fuller
        • • Player Justice Travis Nixon
          • Player Justice Tom "cro" Gordon
        • Player Justice John Buehler
        • Player Justice Eric Random
• Player Justice Matt Mihaly
• • Player Justice Brian 'Psychochild' Green
• [good] Parser engines Manuel Lanctot
• • [good] Parser engines Travis Casey
  • [good] Parser engines Mike Rozak
• Character Restraint and Griefing mark
• Cultural impact on Muds Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• 2d mapping in SQL Matt Chatterley
• • 2d mapping in SQL szii@sziisoft.com
  • 2d mapping in SQL Byron Ellacott
  • • 2d mapping in SQL Matt Chatterley
    • • 2d mapping in SQL Byron Ellacott
      • • 2d mapping in SQL Matt Chatterley
  • 2d mapping in SQL Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• Why significant rewards for quests are a bad thing Ola Fosheim Grøstad
• • Why significant rewards for quests are a bad thing Brian Miller
• Character Restraint & Capture. (long) Jester
• MUD/MMO Service Tools Jim Purbrick
• [Biz] Bots Open Door to Gaming History Michael Tresca
• [Announcement] Mesh Project Jon A. Lambert
• Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the first one :)) ceo
• • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) Koster, Raph
  • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) Michael Sellers
  • • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) ceo
  • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the first one :)) Luca Girardo
  • Sun's Sim Server and Gordon's 10 Reasons (the firstone :)) Mike Rozak
• DGN NEWS: Master's thesis on quest systems for MMORPGs William Saar
• • DGN NEWS: Master's thesis on quest systems for MMORPGs Douglas Goodall