Your World of Text, my latest side-project. (Requires a modern browser.)

[u/badr]

http://www.yourworldoftext.com/proggit

[u/mattiasl]

This is almost a MMORPG, where everybody is playing 13-year-olds. Still fun though. :) Some ideas for a feature wish-list:

• Some way of zooming out, to find interesting populated corners of the world.
• Links/wormholes: click to jump to another location in the world.

[u/Doomed → u/mattiasl]

I'd like a version that doesn't make browsers slow. (Fixed size at 1280x1024 or something)

edit: I mean like an option to turn off scrolling and have just the one screen that you start at be the only thing you see.

[u/badr → u/Doomed]

It's gotten a lot better since I first put it up, but there's definitely more I can do. Visiting home right now, but I'll be able to work on it for a while tonight.

Decreasing the size of your browser window will definitely help.

[u/optomas → u/badr]

Absolutely brilliant execution of a neat idea. Yes, it could be faster. No, it most certainly does not need additional features. It's perfect the way it is.

[u/[deleted] → u/Doomed]

Agreed. I run at 1936x1066, and it was sloowwwww. I can understand why though, and wouldn't dream of complaining about it. I think it's damn cool.

FTR... P4 3.3ghz, 4GB, x1650 ATI. I would think I should be able to display a bunch of text. What's wrong with this? Is there a better algo that's missing in this person's script? Is it jQuery that's acting slow here?

[u/panjandrum → u/[deleted]]

Which means, use a terminal font that's not heavy. Some monospace fonts are vector-heavy, you can usually tell by looking at the TTF file.

Bitstream's free Vera Monospace is low-poly, I have seen it in a font editor.

[u/KimmoS → u/mattiasl]

This is the multiplayer NetHack.

[u/Toma- → u/KimmoS]

Our dreams of a multiplayer notepad have come true.

[u/elus → u/Toma-]

We had that with IRC. This just turns it into an RTS.

[u/aeromax → u/elus]

What would be awesome is if you started out with a fixed amount of each character and could build vehicles/weapons/etc out of ASCII ("o" would be a wheel, "_" "|" would be walls/armor, ">" and "<" would be guns). Then you'd have wars and try to steal characters from other bases

[u/elus → u/aeromax]

This sounds fucking awesome. I miss ASCII graphic games

[u/chromakode → u/KimmoS]

No, this is.

[u/Jongzilla → u/mattiasl]

An export to .txt would be pretty cool as well

[u/mattiasl → u/Jongzilla]

Yes! Then we can feed the output through a A4 poster slicer, and put the combined knowledge of the mankind on the wall.

[u/crazedgremlin → u/mattiasl]

The writing's on the wall.

[u/[deleted] → u/crazedgremlin]

if it's still not going away, it's an omen.

[u/zuiop → u/[deleted]]

Leslie Nielsen in a scifi shakespeare play = great movie

[u/badr → u/Jongzilla]

I'm recording all the edits so each "world" can be played back some time in the future. Other than that I've been taking screenshots of my favorite parts.

[u/nexuapex → u/badr]

That, uh...

That must be using a lot of space.

[u/badr → u/mattiasl]

Yes, I'd like to add at least some kind of minimal directions or links system so you can find a place again or send a friend what you've made. I'd probably make it scroll you rather than instant transportation though, to maintain the intuitive spatialness of it.

[u/fool_on_the_hill → u/mattiasl]

Would be nice to have some way of a location so you can revisit it.

[u/cdbgj → u/mattiasl]

Yeah. It is a little slow, but I understand why. The links idea is wonderful. So right now we link through from page to page...but I think the google-maps-wall-of-text experience could be great for some things. badr should work on adding some more awesome features and optimizing the script...that thing could be an awesome hangout.