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<LI><em>To</em>: "'<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>'" <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>></LI>
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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:31:50 -0500</LI>
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<PRE>
OK, I promptly got a request to go into more detail, so here it is.
First off, this system (like all of Legend's systems) was designed to be
layered on top of a Diku. I have real affection for Diku-style muds,
which I call "template-based" muds. They are easy to maintain and easy
to expand, they're just not very dynamic. But the basic premise can
easily be applied to any code base.
First, we added a "mood" stored on characters. And we added a global
table of moods that looks something like this:
moods.h:
const struct mood_index mood_table [] = {
{ "normal",
"",
"",
"",
"",
""
}, { "?",
" inquisitively",
" quizzically",
" inquiringly",
"$n enters from %s%s with a questioning look on $s face.",
"$n walks off %s, clearly full of questions."
}, { "abashed",
", abashed",
" abashedly",
", somewhat abashed",
"$n enters from %s%s, hoping no one will notice.",
"$n hurries off %s, trying to avoid criticism."
}, { "absentminded",
" absentmindedly",
", not really paying attention",
" absentmindedly",
"$n enters from %s%s, staring vaguely about.",
"$n hurries off %s, scratching $s head in befuddlement."
}, { "aghast",
", aghast",
" horrified",
", absolutely shocked",
"$n enters from %s%s, $s face a mask of horrified surprise.",
"$n rushes off %s, scandalized."
}, etc...
The first word is the mood's name; the other strings are used for
"coloring" text with the mood.
When we parse input, the first thing we check for, in advance of
anything else, is whether the first keyword is a mood defined in the
table. (Legend does not have a fancy parser, btw). If it is, we set the
mood on the player to be the mood we found.
eg:
> ? ' are you OK?
or
> aghast ' That's awful
When something is spoken, we then take one of the first three strings
and simply insert it after the word "says."
SoNSo says [mood], 'string'
Based on an option you can toggle, player can specify whether they want
moods to be "sticky" or not--if not, then the mood is reset to none
after it is used once. If it is sticky, then that mood remains on all
your speech until you change it.
> ? ' are you OK?
Raph says inquisitively, 'Are you OK?'
> aghast ' that's awful!
Raph says, absolutely shocked, 'That's awful.'
Now, you'll note that the text above has been cleaned up a little before
it got spat out. That's because we also scan through the spoken text. If
there is no punctuation at the end, we put a period there. If there is
intermediate punctuation (period excluding one on a known abbreviation,
question mark, exclamation point, ellipses) we know there is more than
one sentence. In which case there is a random chance that we stick the
whole "SoNSosays [mood]" bit in the middle.
> aghast ' that's awful. if that happened to me, I'd be really pissed
'That's awful,' Raph says, absolutely shocked. 'If that happened to
me, I'd be really pissed.'
Otherwise, that stuff gets randomly placed at either the beginning
(classic mud practice) or at the end.
> abs ' damn, I forgot to call home
'Damn, I forgot to call home,' Raph says, not really paying attention.
If you turn moods off, you will never see any of the above slicing and
dicing.
You can guess yourself exactly how we added it to entrances and exits,
which has proved to be very popular...
Why did I write this? Well, I read a lot. And when you read fiction,
speeches aren't presented like a radio play, they're presented in
semi-decent prose. And roleplayers tend to be readers. So if this helps
the fictional immersion, then it can help roleplayers.
Appended after my signature is a list of the moods supported by Legend
(we add new ones often).
-Raph
The following are moods available to you.
normal ? abashed absentminded aghast
agonized
agreement amazed amused angry angstful annoyed
approving ashamed bewildered bitter bloodthirsty bored
brave callous careful careless casual
childish
clinical cocky cold
compassionatecondescendingconfident
confused content courtly coy crude cruel
curious cynical dazed defensive depressed devious
dimwitted disagreement disappointed discreet disgruntled
disgusted
dismayed distracted doubtful dramatic dreamy drunk
earnest ecstatic embarrassed emphatic encouraging
enthusiastic
evil exasperated exuberant fanatical foolish
forgiving
guilty greedy happy harsh helpful honest
hopeful hopeless humble hungry hurt
hysterical
indifferent impatient imploring impressed incredulous
indignant
innocent insane interested jealous joyful kind
knowing lazy lofty lonely loud loving
lustful mean meek melancholy mischievous musical
mysterious mystified nervous neutral offended
optimistic
pained patient pedantic pensive pessimistic
petulant
philosophicalpitiful pitying playful polite pompous
pouting precocious proud provocative protective puzzled
quick quiet rebellious regretful relieved
reluctant
resigned respectful romantic rude sad
sarcastic
scared scolding scornful secretive seductive serious
shameless shocked shy sincere sleepy slow
sly smug snobby soft sorry
spiteful
stupid stubborn subject subtle sullen
surprised
suspicious sweet taunting teasing terrified
thankful
thoughtful timid tired tolerant uncertain
understanding
unhappy unwilling victorious warm whiny wicked
wise wistful worried
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01184" HREF="msg01184.html">[MUD-Dev] META: Web posting from list archives</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 24 Sep 1998, 06:02 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01150" HREF="msg01150.html">[MUD-Dev] MUD-Dev] META: What are you looking for in this list?</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01142" HREF="msg01142.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Legend's speech system and moods</A></strong>,
Raph & Kristen Koster <a href="mailto:koster#eden,com">koster#eden,com</a>, Wed 23 Sep 1998, 17:20 GMT
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Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 23 Sep 1998, 16:34 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="01139" HREF="msg01139.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: let's call it a spellcraft</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 23 Sep 1998, 15:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01151" HREF="msg01151.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: let's call it a spellcraft</A></strong>,
Adam J. Thornton <a href="mailto:adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU">adam#phoenix,Princeton.EDU</a>, Wed 23 Sep 1998, 20:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01160" HREF="msg01160.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: let's call it a spellcraft</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Wed 23 Sep 1998, 21:44 GMT
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