myth's livejournal!

I made a game for the TIGSource Procedural Generation Competition. It's called Legend of the Tomb of Fate, and you can download it here: Python source for Mac/Linux or Windows executable. There's a little bit of discussion about the game happening on the TIGSource forums.

I've posted more information here, but here's the basic gist: it's an old school BBS door-style RPG (think Legend of the Red Dragon meets Etrian Odyssey) in which almost all the content is procedurally generated: enemies, weapons, armor, elemental affinities, and so forth. They're all generated randomly as you play, so no two playthroughs are the same. There are lots of bugs and unimplemented features, but it's definitely playable (and winnable).

So give it a download and tell me what you think! Here are some screenshots:


Title screen


Battle engine (it r0x0rz y3r s0x0rz)


Procedurally generated elemental affinities

MarkovFilter: a generative tool for analysing an individual's personality/priorities/obsessions by feeding his or her MetaFilter comments through a Markov Chain. An excerpt from my MarkovFilter page:

Metroid Prime. It's like Pale Fire, and everyone's Kinbote! Seems like a cross between a sex toy and a copy of Final Fantasy: Dawn of Souls. See if that does it for you. The only other thing I can cross the street? That would be nice. It says in this area, so I just wanted to point out some really great efforts in language construction that aren't associated with a few built-in niceties.