roughly blocked out some paths and key areas (bomb sites, spawn points). too flat currently, need more height variance. and the scale I think is way too big but I can fix that as I go.
Looks like five areas to detail and a lot of walkways, hopefully not TOO much for a romp if I don't get hung up on trivial stuf like I tend to do lol. I guess if it gets down to the wire I can just do one in bright orange with signposts about how that area it's under construction, please check back next year
Annual LAN (and online now) party w/ some friends starts on the 26th. Each year we play some Jackbox and other phone games, but also Half-life and Counter-strike 1.6 with custom maps we've created over the years - some as old as ~1999 or so.
Anyway I promised a new map this year and then slacked off for the past 350 days and have nothing to show for it. Let's see if I can knock something together in the next 3 days for CS that isn't horrible to play! (well, tbf that hasn't stopped us before, but...)
@lunarloony Good luck with that. I bought that on super clearance from some store in bygone years and my god, what an infuriating game
@quaddicted_motd cracking up at the "realism" tag
oh come on! the stock Raspbian install comes with a web browser that literally _does not run_ on a raspberry pi of a certain age! what the heck!
if you're going to drop compatibility it seems like it'd at least be wise to mention this in the docs? anywhere??
@Bogusmeatfactory @MichaelKlamerus I was always intrigued by the idea that your spells got more powerful the longer you didn't cast them. I wonder how that actually ended up in practice. Maybe they changed it later 
@Bogusmeatfactory I've been interested in this one ever since I checked out a CD of it from the library in 2001 (our local library loaned games out and somehow they bought this MMO???) but obviously, I could never actually play it.
@averyfinecat battle royale rocket league...
@jonn_blanchard oh ok! I was expecting something like "a raspberry pi case shaped like an old computer", it looks like the 5150 but I wasn't certain and was checking to confirm
@jonn_blanchard Is this alt text AI generated? I was using it to help me figure out what I'm looking at, but it explained nothing
@MichaelKlamerus someone set up that if you went to the nurse's office and injected yourself with one of the various syringes, you'd go on a drug trip (teleport to a new set of redecorated rooms) that matched the layout of the school but had far out descriptions and a talking penguin. After a few turns of that you'd warp back to the sick bed lol.
The most advanced thing we did was to get NPC bots running around to be the teachers - they'd spout off things we remembered them saying from class and sometimes interact with one another.
Unfortunately the computer this ran on, someone's cast-off 486 in their bedroom, one day literally caught fire and all was lost except the memories
@MichaelKlamerus i love to tell people my MOO story when some friends and I ran one in high school ~2000 - it was tiny (only about 5 or 6 total players, just our friend group really) running on the LambdaMOO software. I believe everyone had the wizard permission to create objects and "dig" more rooms, so we ended up with a quasi-recreation of the school building complete with "secret" areas players used for their home base... mine in the parent-teacher conference room, behind a locked door w/ a key only I carried... iirc someone else camped out in the hidden orchestra pit beneath the stairs. One person had a poster on a wall you could move to reveal a secret passage.
The tools were so intuitive and the setup so minimal that it was easy to churn out a space by adding a name and description and then digging some exits, or creating an object and then just describing "it's a snowglobe" and so it was.
