Idea - the Narrator
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:54 am
OK, I've mentioned and hinted toward this idea before elsewhere, and after talking with JeffM2501, he said it wouldn't be nearly as har as it may seem.
The goal of this plugin is more for entertainment purposes. It takes events that happns during a game and says it to the players. (despite the info already being available) The current idea is to provide a narration of the game. It could be done anonymously via the /say command, or it can be made configurable to where it takes a spot in observer, similar to bzfscron. A forward looking idea in addition (possibly changing the name of the project from Narrator to Criminologist, or some other clever name) and have the plugin save certain information to a log file, making information like "which admin set the sky color to this horrid shade?" saved to a file, along with conversations held in public (and possibly private) channels to a file as well, neatly organized. Edutainment... This might be a one to integrate into the bzfscron project...
Anywho, aside from logging ideas down the road, the current and lift off part of this is the event part. For example...
If someone is hit with GM, the server would /say
$deadplayer just got blown out of the sky with a direct GM hit!
Now, since I am no coder, I'm not a programmer, I don't know what context to use to describe exact terms. My ideas and examples are just that. Anything I give with a dollar sign is a variable.
The plugin would give random messages according to the event. So in this phase of planning, we should defind an event. then give possible things for the server to say in said event.
This could get lengthy fairly quick, and getting things to say could take time. But if it takes off, we could have language translations...
The idea is to have a nice, long set of things the narrator can say, I would like to keep it clean, so it can be used anywhere. Maybe an underground, X rated version can be afoot - but the initial idea to have somehting anyone and everyone could use. So, please do not reply and suggest anything like "...just got his balls blown off by..." So I say use "secretplace" rules for submissions. Meaning if you can't get away with saying it on secretplace, save it for the underground version.
So the guideline for suggestions is this:
give an event
give suggestion as to what the server might say when said event happens
I'll go first with my own sugestions. I want to be as expandable as possible with this, so think outside of the box.
The goal of this plugin is more for entertainment purposes. It takes events that happns during a game and says it to the players. (despite the info already being available) The current idea is to provide a narration of the game. It could be done anonymously via the /say command, or it can be made configurable to where it takes a spot in observer, similar to bzfscron. A forward looking idea in addition (possibly changing the name of the project from Narrator to Criminologist, or some other clever name) and have the plugin save certain information to a log file, making information like "which admin set the sky color to this horrid shade?" saved to a file, along with conversations held in public (and possibly private) channels to a file as well, neatly organized. Edutainment... This might be a one to integrate into the bzfscron project...
Anywho, aside from logging ideas down the road, the current and lift off part of this is the event part. For example...
If someone is hit with GM, the server would /say
$deadplayer just got blown out of the sky with a direct GM hit!
Now, since I am no coder, I'm not a programmer, I don't know what context to use to describe exact terms. My ideas and examples are just that. Anything I give with a dollar sign is a variable.
The plugin would give random messages according to the event. So in this phase of planning, we should defind an event. then give possible things for the server to say in said event.
This could get lengthy fairly quick, and getting things to say could take time. But if it takes off, we could have language translations...
The idea is to have a nice, long set of things the narrator can say, I would like to keep it clean, so it can be used anywhere. Maybe an underground, X rated version can be afoot - but the initial idea to have somehting anyone and everyone could use. So, please do not reply and suggest anything like "...just got his balls blown off by..." So I say use "secretplace" rules for submissions. Meaning if you can't get away with saying it on secretplace, save it for the underground version.
So the guideline for suggestions is this:
give an event
give suggestion as to what the server might say when said event happens
I'll go first with my own sugestions. I want to be as expandable as possible with this, so think outside of the box.