T17F in a nutshell [Archive]

thomasp

13 Nov 2007, 11:25

For those of you who don't visit RealVG.org (shame on you :p)

http://www.realvg.org/display.php?type=articles&id=179 - courtesy of AndrewTaylor.

That's basically the Speculation & Discussion forum in a nutshell. This thread in particular: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=34876

worMatty

13 Nov 2007, 12:28

Very clever.

Akuryou13

13 Nov 2007, 12:53

pahaha! that's great in levels previously unknown. good show andrew!

wormthingy

13 Nov 2007, 16:53

True. Very true...

I actually left T17F, but then I got a mail i was invited to od. :eek:

MrBunsy

13 Nov 2007, 17:13

That's brilliant. Such a pity it's so real, too.

bonz

13 Nov 2007, 17:55

I actually left T17F, but then I got a mail i was invited to od. :eek:
Yes.
The moment you opened that email was the moment of your eternal damnation.
Did I welcome you to Worm Hell yet?

Pickleworm

13 Nov 2007, 19:44

Melon

13 Nov 2007, 20:11

I think that thread you've linked to there should be closed. It's only going to get ugly, and Shadowmoon is incapable of sensible conversation. I was going to report it, but it's not really at the stage where it needs to be reported, and I'm worried it might be treated as report abuse.

Paul.Power

13 Nov 2007, 21:50

It's sad but rather typical that Plasma didn't realise that this was satire, assuming that the posts were real.

AndrewTaylor

14 Nov 2007, 00:07

It's sad but rather typical that Plasma didn't realise that this was satire, assuming that the posts were real.

I wonder who he thinks the developers of Chess are.

FutureWorm

14 Nov 2007, 00:44

I wonder who he thinks the developers of Chess are.
i bet he could make a better version in gamemaker

Akuryou13

14 Nov 2007, 09:37

i bet he could make a better version in gamemakerI dunno.....maybe if he had Fwd. Adm.'s help.

bonz

14 Nov 2007, 10:20

I dunno.....maybe if he had Fwd. Adm.'s help.
Yeah, Fwd. Adm. steals draws the graphics for the chess pieces.

thomasp

14 Nov 2007, 16:45

... and then makes up some graphic, exaggerated story whenever a piece gets captured.

FutureWorm

14 Nov 2007, 22:05

... and then makes up some graphic, exaggerated story whenever a piece gets captured.
"guys my queen blew her brains out last night"

SupSuper

14 Nov 2007, 22:08

And throw in ranking so that everyone can whine about checkmate quitters.

thomasp

14 Nov 2007, 22:43

And people who walk off halfway through a game.

MtlAngelus

15 Nov 2007, 08:51

They should make chess moddable. :cool:

Paul.Power

15 Nov 2007, 10:13

They should make chess moddable. :cool:

It already is (http://www.chessvariants.org/)

Run

15 Nov 2007, 11:25

"guys my queen blew her brains out last night"

And then there were 7.

Jackson was enveloped in a cold sweat, his eyes wide with terror as the first of his fellow pawns fell to the white bishop, and was casually swept off the board, no sign of him having ever existed bar an ominous gap in the ranks. Mere squares away, the bishop eyed Jackson with a bloodthirsty smile. Jackson anxiously awaited the King's orders.

How did it all come to this? Jackson thought back to a simpler time, when all the pieces were in their original positions. A long period of peace had brought prosperity and happiness to the kingdom, and the people were even beginning to forget the horrors of the last great checkmate.

But a few knew those times could never last. Reports began trickling in of a military build-up within the white realm. Pieces were being placed in an arrangement that suggested an offensive might be on the way. Fears of a coming war began to sweep the land, but the black monarchy remained steadfast. The whites had signed a treaty, the king reassured, and they would never risk suffering again the losses of the last conflict.

But such reassurances were swept aside in an instant that day, as reports came flooding in from the border that a white pawn had advanced not one but two spaces. Despite the king's earlier naivety, the black response was swift, with a pawn dispatched immediately. A second white pawn had been spotted advancing in the east. The king remained calm, insisting that the situation would not escalate.

All that would change when forces clashed and a black pawn fell to a brutal massacre. War was declared and bishops and knights were dispatched from both sides. Jackson was one of the first pawns sent out to the front line, and his death looked imminent. But as fate would have it, he was safe for now. The King's orders came through, Knight to H3, protecting both Jackson and another pawn in a single move.

The bishop's smile faded.

Paul.Power

15 Nov 2007, 15:39

"Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves."

Terry Pratchett, Thud