[ANNOUNCE] Umbra role-playing game 0.2 pre-alpha

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn9dnd8o.1ca8.kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>,
Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes <kamikaze at kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> wrote:
>
>  Umbra is a computer role-playing game written in Python, similar to
>Alternate Reality and Bard's Tale, with influences from roguelike games
>and console RPGs, and set in a universe of Lovecraftian elder gods.

Cool!

>  Right now, I mostly just want feedback on performance and the
>interface, if it works on your machine, if I'm completely insane to be
>writing a game like this in Python, why there are two Arthurian items in
>the town for testing (and there may be a Grail somewhere!), or whatever.

Looks decent so far, but it's pretty dinky at 1280x1024 on a 19"
monitor.  ;-)  I'd suggest making object manipulation your next task,
so it's not just wandering around.  Particularly as a pure RPG, Python
is more than fast enough; after all, Severance: Blade of Darkness is a
realtime hack'n'slash that's mostly Python.
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