Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "152", "posts": [ { "id": "1518", "time": "1295994290", "html": "The old twocans used to have a thing on the bottom of the page saying "# are roaming Hyrule". What did that mean exactly? I know Hyrule is a Legend of Zelda reference but how would someone be put under the category of "roaming Hyrule"?", "user": "nfhslugger" }, { "id": "1523", "time": "1295994383", "html": "going to twocansandstring.com/squirrel would put you in a multiplayer zelda sort of thing where you could see other users wondering around. it was made to test a chat sort of thing I think.", "user": "thingerdudes" }, { "id": "1524", "time": "1295994385", "html": "The webmaster had a mock Hyrule where we could run around in. We could see each other, but not talk to each other.<br />\n<br />\nEdit: It is no longer there..?", "user": "harok" }, { "id": "1526", "time": "1295994497", "html": "Oh, is it still up on the archived site?", "user": "nfhslugger" }, { "id": "1528", "time": "1295994530", "html": "Maybe, but dough it.", "user": "harok" }, { "id": "1529", "time": "1295994641", "html": "I found it but it won't load. I guess making the site read only killed it.", "user": "nfhslugger" }, { "id": "1534", "time": "1295995246", "html": "<a href=\"http://twocans.nfshost.com/squirrel\">squirrel</a><br />\n<br />\nIt just said "please wait..."", "user": "harok" }, { "id": "1544", "time": "1295995528", "html": "Yeah it used to be a little game.<br />\n<br />\nI found it by going to /things", "user": "ffatty" }, { "id": "2999", "time": "1296101861", "html": "So did Blake code the game? Or did he just find it online? (I'm guessing he coded it)", "user": "nfhslugger" }, { "id": "15349", "time": "1296530939", "html": "I just noticed this thread.<br />\n<br />\nHere's the whole story behind the past, present, and future of /squirrel/, hyrule, whatever end-to-end as a bulleted list:<br />\n<br />\n<ul><li> I enjoy programming games.</li><li> I am not very creative. </li><li> I create replicas of games because the programming challenge is fun and I don't need to create or hunt down a spec as the original game serves as its own spec. </li><li> Classic Zeldas are some of my favorite games, particularly the 3rd one for SNES. </li><li> I started to create a replica of it. I stopped midway. </li><li> The point at which I stopped was when I was creating a proper map editor.</li><li> Without a proper map editor I had to manually define the physics for each tile type.</li><li> I defined the physics types for the most common tiles. </li><li> For the sake of my sanity and productivity, I held off on the rest of the tiles.</li><li> I marked all the unclassified tiles as "unpassable" and overlayed red squares around those tiles to indicate that they were left to categorize.</li><li> I shelved the project for another day. </li><li> Fast forward to a few weeks later...</li><li> One day, I decided to investigate the possibility of creating a multiplayer virtual world.</li><li> This would serve as a different kind of chat room on TwoCans that would exist alongside the existing IRC one. </li><li> I created a simple prototype in Silverlight.</li><li> This prototype showed yourself as a blue circle and all other users as red circles with usernames written next to the circle.</li><li> The arrow keys would move the circle around.</li><li> Because I wrote this and the Zelda clone so close together, the architecture I used for the games was remarkably similar.</li><li> Just for shits and giggles, I ported the Zelda engine to the blue-circle-red-circle app. </li><li> I did not expect it to work. </li><li> It worked.</li><li> It was still just a technical investigation prototype.</li><li> Even worse than a prototype: a technical investigation overlayed with an incomplete project.</li><li> A multiplayer Zelda clone is a horrible thing to sit on, so against my better judgement I released it.</li><li> Now when I'm all alone and the room is quiet, I can faintly hear the echoes of people asking me what the red boxes are. </li><li> Since the prototype was more or less a success, I will move on (in March) to creating a public product. </li><li> The only reason I made a Zelda-themed prototype was because the clone I made in an entirely separate project fit into my code architecture so well.</li><li> The final version will not be Zelda themed for multiple reasons.</li><li> The largest one is called a lawsuit.</li><li> As I see it, there are 3 options for setting: (past-themed, present-themed, futuristic)</li><li> Everyone is sick of medieval themed MMO's so this is not an option in my eyes.</li><li> If it was themed as a modern day experience, it would be no different than Habbo Hotel. </li><li> This leaves futuristic.</li><li> Think of the TRON world. </li><li> Turn up the lights so it's not so dark.</li><li> Now add some plants. </li><li> This is what the setting for the virtual world will roughly look like when its done. </li><li> There may be a few multiplayer games embedded into this world so that it isn't just walking around aimlessly.</li><li> There will be chatting capabilities. </li><li> March is most likely when I will start this.</li></ul>", "user": "blake" }, { "id": "15364", "time": "1296531297", "html": "Very interesting.", "user": "harok" }, { "id": "15368", "time": "1296531353", "html": "Can't wait.", "user": "amgirl" }, { "id": "15425", "time": "1296533787", "html": "I'm glad we can use bullets now. There's no way a paragraph could have conveyed that message. \ud83d\ude09", "user": "hydrogen777" } ], "users": { "nfhslugger": { "name": "nfhslugger", "key": "nfhslugger", "url": "/users/nfhslugger", "avatar": "/images/white.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "77" }, "thingerdudes": { "name": "ThingerDudes", "key": "thingerdudes", "url": "/users/thingerdudes", "avatar": "/images/white.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "925" }, "harok": { "name": "Harok", "key": "harok", "url": "/users/harok", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/1296.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2299" }, "ffatty": { "name": "ffatty", "key": "ffatty", "url": "/users/ffatty", "avatar": "/images/white.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "115" }, "blake": { "name": "Blake", "key": "blake", "url": "/users/blake", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/16553.png", "rankClass": "webmaster", "rankText": "Webmaster", "posts": "3033" }, "amgirl": { "name": "amgirl", "key": "amgirl", "url": "/users/amgirl", "avatar": "/images/white.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "691" }, "hydrogen777": { "name": "Hydrogen777", "key": "hydrogen777", "url": "/users/hydrogen777", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/11933.png", "rankClass": "admin", "rankText": "Admin", "posts": "7571" } }, "page_num": 1, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 1 }

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