Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.games,net.games.rogue Subject: Opinion on modifying sources for games Message-ID: <712@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Feb-85 23:00:07 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.712 Posted: Sun Feb 10 23:00:07 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:57:48 EST References: <296@ist.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.games:1608 net.games.rogue:2618 Summary: In article <296@ist.UUCP> pat@ist.UUCP (Patrick Place) writes:##Speaking of dogs, I have modified my version of Hack so the dog ##doesn't automatically go wild if you leave him behind on a level. >Well, why don't you continue to modify the source, you could >stop all monsters from hitting you.... >If I modified a game to make it easier, I certainly wouldn't >want anyone else to know. Sure, play the modified game but >don't expect any respect if you do finally get the amulet out >of the dungeon. What's missing here is why we play games. I play games to be amused; altho games need to be difficult to keep my interest up, there is a point beyond which difficulty ceases to interest me. I'd just as soon be able to save games of Rogue & backtrack to correct tactical errors (a la Zork). Suppose I modified a copy of Rogue and played it? Does it hurt anyone if I do this? No. Would it interest me, in as much as I'd waste much less time playing thru the opening sequence of the dungeon over and over again? Yes. So I think that playing your privately modified forms of games is just spiffy. After all, your game won't post to the system-wide score file; and anyone who you beat at your form of the game is playing with the same handicap/advantage you are. In the words of the New Games Movement (from memory...) "Play hard. Play fair. Everybody wins." -- "1985: Why 1985 isn't like 1984" Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick