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Index B to Man and Beast. Alphabetic list of Man and Beast pieces starting with the letter B.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 07:17 AM UTC:
Fergus:

'...you use poor graphics...' That's a matter of opinion. If you want truly awful graphics I can point you to the 'icon' graphics here - which try to represent 5 kinds of penguin, 2 kinds of other bird, and 2 kinds of seal on images tiny enough to fit a vast array of them on a web page. On that scale, give me simple letters any day! For my own variants I try to use the most economical graphics appropriate to the variant. That means arrays of established images first - preferablnoy generated on the fly rather than having to be stored on the page - then Ascii Art, and only if all else fails do I resort to crteating a full-board image. If there's a good way of doing the graphics for a 3-player in the Fiancé Chess/Kennet/Triple Crown style I'd be delighted to be told of it.

'With you, I think you are just spinning off ideas without any quality control... the main thing I've seen from you is quantity, quantity, quantity.' Well of course what you see is what doesn't get through my first line of quality control. Not only do you not see the ones that I've rejected outright, it also means you don't often see any record of early drafts that I've realised won't work and I have to rethink. If anytyhing slips through it oly takes someone to spot it and I fix it like a flash.

'If the main problem is that you're not a programmer...' As it happens, programing is how I earn my living, but it's not what I live for. I like a complete break from programming when I get home.

'...you can still make Game Courier presets for your games that do not enforce any rules and slowly play them with others online.' Presets that do not enforce any rules! Well that's what people have tended to create from my variants, but I'd prefer the rules to be enforced.

'It does not require any knowledge of context to understand what it was illustrating.' Well it would be nice to know what it does require knowledge of, because I'm at something of a loss. My first thought was that you were sending up the literary and operatic references in my articles, but then I realised that if it were that then, far from not mattering my ignorance would be the whole point. Are you boasting that you can make god in your own image, or accusing me of trying to make god in mine, or just spouting some mumbo-jumbo to make me feel ignorant when there's nothing behind it to be ignorant of?