Purloin is not a command Aika added, Purloin is one of the debug commands from Inform itself.You can purloin predicaments!? First i learn that you can purloin NPCs and now this? xD
Why is such a powerful command not under the debug/dirtycheater wall? I feel that it should be there
iirc showme is also from the default debug commands. Another fun one is "tree".
My guess is that Aika did something terribly wrong with the extra names on stuff. Inform is pretty fast, it is a text game engine after all, but the way it does things has some traps that if you're not careful about you might trigger. Messing with "does the player mean" and stuff like that can easily spiral out of control, and then the more objects you add in, the worse it gets. Basically, at some point you can have every code running for every object, meaning you have exponential slowdowns in your game.
If done right you can have thousands of objects running AI every turn without much slowdown, while actions that don't pass turn won't even slowdown at all. If done wrong, you can have every single action taking forever because every single action must go through every single object before executing. Considering trap quest slows down for actions without nouns (objects) and actions that don't pass turns (which means AI isn't executing), my guess is the name fuckery causes the slowdowns.
But you can improve performance by having very strong single-thread CPUs. Inform is entirely single-threaded.
Based on some forum posts and that VirusTotal has like a 28/59 score saying it's a virus. Granted it's all literal who AVs but still spooky
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It was a false positive, said Aika, but apparently there is a version of git that triggers antiviruses (the last one, 136) and there's one that does not (the previous one, 135).
You can replace the git that comes with the launcher you get from the official trap quest site btw. You just need to download the version you want, you go to the laughter's folder and paste it in there.
A good place to start would be to learn how to read (Page 1 of this thread).
When I unzip wingit-136.zip there is no exe file
Step 8
c) Run the interpreter (e.g., git.exe or gargoyle-free)
There is no git.exe in wingit-136.zip
EDIT: it was git-136.zip so my mistake
I realized it after I downloaded wingit-135.zip
Step 8
c) Run the interpreter (e.g., git.exe or gargoyle-free)
There is no git.exe in wingit-136.zip
EDIT: it was git-136.zip so my mistake
I realized it after I downloaded wingit-135.zip
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Do you know how to get the source code? Would love to so some changes to the game. Like repeatable college predicaments, stronger curses and more flavor text...
dividead is talking about the source code of Git, not the source code of Trap Quest. Both are very different types of programs, but Trap Quest does have it's source code public on GitHub. Note, it's not complete, and the images aren't there either.
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best thing is, to read
as far as i know, you wont be able to compile it, so you would need to add "stronger curses" as a difficulty toggle or as a "fetish" toggle. currently the college is reworked, so any change could be lost.
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first before adding anything to the git.as far as i know, you wont be able to compile it, so you would need to add "stronger curses" as a difficulty toggle or as a "fetish" toggle. currently the college is reworked, so any change could be lost.
I've been trying to beat the Doom quest, but I haven't been able to find a bell anywhere. Anyone know how I can spawn a robobellboy at the hotel to destroy? Or at least way to efficiently reset the Dungeon shop? After beating and letting the shopkeeper go, I am in the situatiion where the items respawn but I can steal with impunity, but no bells have spawned.
You can purloin just about anything in the game to your inventory. NPCs purloined this way can than be put into the world by the "drop <npc/item>" command.
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None of the scanners identify it as spyware. It calls home and installs a plugin for the Edge browser, it's being identified as adware.
Don't care about symantics, it shouldn't call home. If there is a requirement for an Edge plugin it should be the users choice not something a binary does.
is the interpreter on the offical site (
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) safe to use? Alot of people talking about infected interpreters but not specifying where they downloaded. The one I used last week was ShameGamesGit.zip, am I ok?
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Most apps call home for auto-update, some apps install their own stuff. You're making it sound like it's installing a keylogger or a rootkit when it's nothing of the like.
Any input on this? Trying to decide if I need to flatten and reinstall windows...