The Gamer's Quarter

[Swimmy]

If you haven't messed around with Here Be Dragons, you should probably do that right now by clicking here. (And going to the creator's website here.)

Earlier I took this picture:


What happened was that when I rotated the nodes for the city, it looked like the dragon was slowly approaching a city gate, perhaps to storm in and kidnap the princess. I realized with a little work and maybe some photoshop talent, someone could create a photobook that told a short story. There are about a million sights to see in this toy that would probably never be generated by the computer. (Dragons storming a city maybe?)
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"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
-seryogin

[Nana Komatsu]

There are dragons here too.

[Lackey]

Oh yes, I've had my eyes on this project for a long time. It shows a lot of promise, but it's far from complete. If his ideas about language generation go anywhere I'd be very happy.

Anyway, as to your proposal. I can't help but feel the stark, ambiguous nature of the original game (...toy?) is more compelling without an added story layer. It doesn't go very far but it's good.

[Swimmy]

Simply that the computer will not generate a hundred dragons flying head-on into a city. Yes the randomly-generated game's very wonderful to play around in but I have an urge to create with this thing. Don't know exactly why.
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"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
-seryogin

[dessgeega]

i find the dragons unsettling to look at up close.
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[Lackey]

They're mostly collections of rotating triangles, and they're usually not arranged in the way you'd expect.