wkfauna

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by wkfauna 28d ago
Yeah. There's a gate finding oracle (src/control_oracle.py) that runs on every room. The positional work is actually being extended right now, because KQ5 makes complicated use of it.
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by wkfauna 28d ago
Yeah so here's the chaining, I went back to look at it. The door is a sprite, declared in the VIEW, that is in the way of the strip of elevator shaft (declared in the PIC) that you have to step on in order to exit from the volcano (roo
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by wkfauna 28d ago
No, the elevator door is a boundary that is an obstacle in the PIC, until you drop the bomb and it becomes walkable.
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by wkfauna 28d ago
I played KQ6 as a small kid who could barely speak English, and again ~10 years later as a grad student. The day I stumbled on the long ending and found myself in the Realm of the Dead still counts as one of the most mind-explodey things th
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by wkfauna 28d ago
I legit started learning English from King's Quest 4. One of my first words was "Zounds!".
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by wkfauna 28d ago
Thanks! I use sci-tools for the decompilation. It produces a LISP-ish S-expression source. I also extended it to produce a JSON AST.
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by wkfauna 28d ago
The volcano at the end of Leisure Suit Larry 2. The elevator door opening after you drop your bomb into the crater is handled in the PIC, not in the room script. So the game ending condition is essentially invisible if all you look at is th
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by wkfauna 29d ago
Thanks! No, this needs your own copy of the game, like eg ScummVM does. You run the tool on it and then you can point ScummVM/DOSBox to the patched directory.
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by wkfauna 29d ago
That's evil! But it does make me feel a little better about not using points as a proxy :D
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by wkfauna 29d ago
It's true that Claude wrote most of the Readme... But the design is human :)
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by wkfauna 29d ago
Thanks!! I mean, I can kiiiinda see it as a design philosophy... It does make games harder and make them feel higher stakes. What really gets me is some of the later games that look like they would be safe, but aren't. For example Ga
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by wkfauna 29d ago
Yes I'm with you on that bridle! And you can only get it by typing "look down", which is infuriating! I'm also discovering, working on KQ5, that it is really evil in allowing you to use items in certain ways that look fi
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Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games(github.com)
161 points by wkfauna 29d ago|97 comments
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by wkfauna 12y ago
I'm a female software engineer. I'm pretty successful, but I have often felt that I don't fit in and I've had to learn to deal with that. I feel isolated and lonely when there is a group that has a common narrative and