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Message: 2029
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 02/03/2001
Subject: Time Travel/256 items/cryptic messages
> actually, the core plot of we pretty isfairly
> standard - you are sucked into a
paralell
> dimension and must escape
Actually, it's a
parallel universe, not dimension. There *is* a fourth
dimension, and that is Time (three spatial dimensions, one
temporal dimension). If you could go back in time, you
would create what is known in the time-travel industry
as a bifurcation - the timeline would split in two
at the time you arrived in the past, because you
would be changing the past.
e.g. Say you went
back and killed your father before you were conceived.
Then there would be two parallel universes - the one
from which you came, in which you were conceived, and
the one which you have just created, in which you are
not conceived. You would be stuck in the second
timeline forever, because even if you could go back to the
future, it would be the future of the new timeline, and
there's no way to get back to the original timeline if
the primitive operations of your time machine are
backwards and forwards time-travel.
> (by
collecting a shedload of flashing objects).
We Pretty
was the first JSW game to have 256 items. I presume
that editors other than JSW CK allow at most 255, but
you can have 256 (when PEEK 41983 = 0).
> i
thought of doing something like that for
> *latest
game*,
You mean willy goes down the bog, or whatever it's
called now?
> maybe writing a paragraph about
each room (there
> are some personal ideas
stored there, although
> many are trivial and/or
cryptic, some may even
> loose their impact when
explained), then just
> bundling the text as a cryptic
message with the
> game.
You mean so that
the reader wouldn't know which paragraph pertains to
each room? That's a very good idea! It would be an
intriguing puzzle trying to work it out (I did a similar
thing to some extent in the We Pretty diary, but only
in a few places).
--
Andrew
Broad
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