Re: Request for ASCII gears

dab...@gmail.com writes:

> On Apr 17, 5:35�pm, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
> <joh...@myrkraverk.com> wrote:
>> dab...@gmail.com writes:

>> > I'm working on a project, and I need some ascii gears/cogs. I
>> > have no talent myself and have been relying on automatic
>> > converters. However, the smallest usable gear I can generate is
>> > 30x30 -- and that's way too big. If anybody posts some decent
>> > smaller gears, I'll give credit in my game. (It's going to be a
>> > multiplayer roguelike type thing)
>>
>> Why don't you tell us a bit about your game, and/or show us some
>> url?

> http://jigstar.ath.cx:1024/files/guitar.png

> (URL should work unless my server's down)

> There's a preview of one of the puzzles. The first town, Cyphen, is
> a sort of dead-zone afterlife you end up in for various
> reasons. Picture a town covered with snow, streetlamps, factories,
> and a clock tower.  Trolley tracks creep their way across the river
> and thrown the city.  That puzzle is a large fountain-like structure
> in which players collaborate to first tune the guitar by rotating
> the gears (which are too large right now, making the rest of Cyphen
> too large) and then press patterns on frets.
>
> The game itself (currently but not finally titled PerlRL, perl
> roguelike) is a multiplayer roguelike, so see
> nethack/crawl/adom/tome for great examples of the genre.

I'm a bit familiar with nethack.

> PerlRL currently has a sort of steampunk flair to it, but that's
> rapidly getting blended with my newer ideas. I can get a tech demo
> distributed easily assuming your platform has perl and ncurses and
> some modules, working on producing a plain executable for the
> rest. ANything else you'd like to know?

I'm personally not interested in a demo at the moment; do have have
perl and ncurses, and should be able to make them work together.
That'll be fine for now.

> And I like the base, Johann. Reminds me of what I had come up with
> myself:

>       __
>   /\ |  | /\
>   \ \|__|/ /
>    \/    \/
> ---|      |---
> ---|      |---
>    /\____/\
>   / /|  |\ \
>   \/ |__| \/
>
> But it just doesn't look as much like a cog as the larger examples in
> the picture do. I guess it might just be a tradeoff

This one is a bit more like it -- and can probably be tweaked further
-- should, maybe, if you're gonne use it.  Do you want it larger?

		     .-.   
		 /`. : : ,'\
                ....`._,',...
		!... (_) ...!
		 ,' .: :. `.
		 \,' ._. `./

The veritable experts in here may be able to come up with something
better, after all, I'm just a newbie ;-P


Johann

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