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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
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At 09:24 PM 2/16/98 +0000, coder#ibm,net wrote:
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>On 16/02/98 at 02:31 AM, Ling <K.L.Lo-94#student,lboro.ac.uk> said:
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>>If I want
>>to act like a robot and 'trigger' on some movement/colour change, I stare
>>off centre to the target. This staring into nothing in particular, apart
>>from less eyestrain, let's me switch off and flinch.
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>Bingo. Its a common technique, and havily used by most heavy arcade
>gamers.
And part of military combat training. When watching a doorway from cover,
for example, we're taught to aim the weapon naturally at the door and then
watch a spot about three feet from it.
And on the subject of first-person shooters... the thing that's done me
more good than anything in Quake is the general wisdom passed along by my
range instructor during basic: it's always better to take two seconds to
aim than it is to jump out like a maniac and blindly squeeze off rounds in
the general direction of the target. One good shot outdoes a hundred bad
ones every time.
I would think, however, what makes peripheral vision more noticeable is the
lack of resolution. I can't read the word "Camel" on the cigarette pack
next to my monitor, for example, nor can I read the keypad on the phone at
the other side... but if either of them moved, I'd notice immediately.
(This sometimes happens, since I have a cat in the house. And now that I
think about it, I can see my cat lying on the floor out of the corner of my
eye, but I have no idea which direction he's facing -- he's facing either
the mirror or the door, but I can't tell which.)
>>In any case, take a look at the game Dungeon Keeper and take control of a
>>beetle. You end up viewing the world with a goldfish lense. Different
>>creatures have different vision. It's quite cool until you start to
>>think you really are a beetle.
>
><kof>
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>Latent RP?
I found Dungeon Keeper to be an excellent game, and I still enjoy playing
it... even though it got really boring after a while in terms of the
victory conditions. The differing perspectives, when in first-person view,
were fascinating... although taking control of a vampire was a pain with
the red tinge to everything.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00355" HREF="msg00355.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
Vadim Tkachenko <a href="mailto:vadimt#4cs,com">vadimt#4cs,com</a>, Fri 30 Jan 1998, 19:08 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00480" HREF="msg00480.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00486" HREF="msg00486.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00506" HREF="msg00506.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00509" HREF="msg00509.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 17 Feb 1998, 06:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00517" HREF="msg00517.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The MLI Project</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00535" HREF="msg00535.html">The MLI Project</A></strong>,
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