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*** Vehicles and pushable things
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(Description from inside a vehicle; Hover)
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Letting the player see a modified room description when he's viewing the place from inside a vehicle.
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Suppose we want the player to see a modified room description when he's viewing the place from inside a vehicle. There are several conceivable ways of doing this; the example here shows a rather advanced way, but is very flexible and will let us write all sorts of special cases.
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{*}"Hover"
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Use full-length room descriptions.
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Emerald City is a room. "All the buildings are spires and none of them have doors." The Vast Desert is west of Emerald City. "[if the player is in a vehicle]Outside, a[otherwise]A[end if] trackless waste stretches as far as the eye can see in every direction."
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The hover-bubble is a vehicle in the Emerald City. "Your hover-bubble awaits." The description is "The hover-bubble is a clear globe-shaped vehicle capable of transporting you anywhere you could walk, but faster." Understand "bubble" as the hover-bubble. The hover-bubble contains a chocolate wrapper and a parking ticket.
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Here's the tricky part, which relies on material from the chapters on Activities and Rulebooks:
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{**}The container interior rule is listed before the room description body text rule in the carry out looking rules.
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This is the container interior rule:
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if the actor is the player and the player is in an enterable thing (called current cage), carry out the describing the interior activity with the current cage.
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Describing the interior of something is an activity.
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Now we've done that, we can write a "rule for describing the interior" of something, which will print whatever we like:
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{**}Rule for describing the interior of the hover-bubble:
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say "The hover-bubble is transparent, but tints everything outside very faintly lavender."
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In fact, as a special refinement, we could even say:
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{**}Rule for describing the interior of the hover-bubble when the hover-bubble contains more than one thing:
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say "The hover-bubble is transparent, but tints everything outside very faintly lavender. Beside you you can see [a list of other things in the hover-bubble]."
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Definition: a thing is other if it is not the player.
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Rule for listing nondescript items of the hover-bubble when the player is in the hover-bubble: do nothing.
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Test me with "get in bubble / look / west / take all / look / get out / east".
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And now anything that's beside us in the vehicle will be described during that first paragraph, rather than later on. |