New IRC game. Would you play it?

EviL_SmUrF · Lurker Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 219

I've started work on this gaming bot. I think I can pull it off, but it may take a while to code Razz

If I put this bot up on a website for download once I finish it, would you try it out?

I'm just tryin to get a feel for if people would be interested in something like this.

Thanks!

-> *lifebot* info
-LifeBot- Thank you for your interest in LifeIRC!
-LifeBot- LifeIRC is a multiplayer roleplaying game where everything
-LifeBot- you do has a global impact on other players in one way or another,
-LifeBot- and every choice you make determines the path your virtual "life"
-LifeBot- takes. LifeIRC could best be described as "Multiplayer Sims on IRC."
-LifeBot- However, unlike the Sims, LifeIRC is ALOT more in-depth, down to the
-LifeBot- real-world working Stock Market, Job Market, stores, and companies
-LifeBot- ran by other players themselves. If you decide you want to take the
-LifeBot- good path and get a degree by going to college, perhaps you will become
-LifeBot- lucky enough to be able to purchase your own company, in which case
-LifeBot- YOU determine who you hire and fire, what their jobs will be, and
-LifeBot- which direction the company will take. Or, perhaps you will become an
-LifeBot- underground mob boss, blowing up rival companies while protecting your
-LifeBot- friends companies (who, by the way, pay you a handsome sum for protecting them.)
-LifeBot- Or, maybe you will preform a hit on one of your enemies and completely
-LifeBot- end their game play all together, forcing them to start over.
-LifeBot- The options are endless, and the game play intense and addictive.
-LifeBot- Go ahead, give it a shot. Just watch your back at all times, because
-LifeBot- you never know who has your address Wink

-LifeBot-
-LifeBot- LifeIRC is written and programmed by EviL_SmUrF.
-LifeBot- You can find him, as well as the game, at irc.betterchat.net.
-LifeBot- This is LifeIRC version .1.
-LifeBot- End of info.

[DiMENSiON] · Eleet Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 621

Sounds like a very good idea, hard to do but very interesting, i'd play it for sure and i'm not a gaming person! Go for it mate!

v0rtex · Lurker Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 108 Location: IRC

is this going to be open source? i want it on my network!!

DeadNotBuried · none Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 43

whats it being written in ?

EviL_SmUrF · Lurker Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 219

Good 'ol mIRC script while i continue learning C in college. Hash tables are da roxor Wink

I'm faily confident I can pull it off with mIRC script. I have ALOT of experience coding hard things with it, and the databases will be stored via /writeini and hashtables. Easy enough Smile

Once I learn enough C, I will port it over to its own eggdrop-like bot, possibly.

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1122

I've tried a few hashtable vs ini file speed tests .. and everyone said that ini was faster than hashtables.

<back to the topic>
secondly .. I'd have to say no thanks to the game. I have enough real life everyday .. if it was a good fantasy RPG .. I'd think about it.

AshleighJane · none Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 40

EviL_SmUrF · Lurker Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 219

wow, writing to a text file was faster than writing to mirc's built in database stuff? crazy Surprised

I'm gonna go with hash tables for most of the database stuff, such as account registrations and whatnot just cause for me itll be alot easier Razz

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1122

the test wrote to and from hash tables and ini files .. it also dumped data from the hashtable to files (which as we both know that's where the data is stored when mIRC isn't running.)

The tests were limited to very small files though. I'm sure that the more data used, the more difference there is. Personally I've never used hash tables ... nothing in my script requires me to. It don't seem easier to me to read from a file to cache then read from the hash table then dump back to file later .. I just can't see that as "easier". but oh well. Smile

Good luck with your game though.

EviL_SmUrF · Lurker Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 219

eh well, to me its easier to retrieve and work with the data in hash tables than ini files, but then again i havent done either of them in years. i'll just have to see how the coding goes and swing it as i work with it :p

and thanks Smile

pomme · none Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 28

[DiMENSiON] · Eleet Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 621

Well will it be up for public release?

EviL_SmUrF · Lurker Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 219

It might be available for public release whenever I finish coding it. It depends on if I am happy with how it turns out or not Smile

v0rtex · Lurker Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 108 Location: IRC

yeah sorry [DiMENSiON] ; thought it was gona be another bot, not mirc script. I think i may of been drunk at the time of writing also .

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1122