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Wiki of Babel

Wiki of Babel

You know, I've been thinking of writing up a small article on ToB for the German Wikipedia. I'm not sure yet; it would probably be quite short, and the game not very well known. The German WP community is pretty restrictive about accepting articles dealing with stuff like this.

The English WP, however, does have an article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Of_Babel_%28computer_game%29
I just noticed it.
The two main contributing
users are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JIP and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zagrebo.
Somebody already on this forum? If not, we might drop them a line.
And, of course, put a link to the project sites in the articles.

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Dr. Hans Zarkov
Rocket scientist & freelance genius
Formerly of NASA
Deathrays a specialty

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The article is wrong on one minor count - pushing a mine past an object will not detonate the mine. On reflection, this is a little odd.

Hey ho. I declare that I had nothing to do with that wikification, beyond reading it just now.



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I added the links, but I have yet to write an entry for tob2.
I of course also added the tob remake link.

regards
Chrizb



looks can be deceiving

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Links formatted.
I think I'll just put in a short paragraph about ToB having such a very small but hard-assed and dedicated fan community, and drop a few innocent sentences concerning the remake projects.

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Dr. Hans Zarkov
Rocket scientist & freelance genius
Formerly of NASA
Deathrays a specialty

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Sounds like a good thing to do.
I will endevour to write a quick section on ToB2. There seems to be many references to computer games, so that should not be an issue.

Nice formatting btw

Are any of you into chess?



looks can be deceiving

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I can play chess. I'm just not very good at it.



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I think I'll put turn based chess on tob2.

ANy suggestions which figure should be what?

White
====
pawn = Camera
Knight = Hopper
Bishop = Exchanger
Rook = Block
Queen = Spider - Zapper
King = Spider - Grabber

Black
====
pawn = bomb
Knight = Freezer
Bishop = watcher
Rook = Converter
Queen = Zapper (fixed)
King = Pusher (fixed)

What do you think?



looks can be deceiving

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Well, JIP seems to be Joona Palaste, the guy who wrote a ToB review, I think. Funny enough, in his wikipedia user page he writes that he discovered an entry about a former schoolmate of his, who now plays in a band, and I once interviewed his fellow musicians. The world is small...

Anyway, there are obviously some more people out there who still remember ToB, but haven't shown up on the forum yet. There's PR work to be done...

And Chris, do you know Battle Chess?!? Try to do something like that with the ToB elements!

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You'd first off be best having the same units on each side - just colour code them. Chrome silver versus glossy black... mmm, nice.

As for unit types - I'd avoid a lot of standard TOB elements, especially fixed ones such as the zappers, pushers, convertors. In fact, TOB elements don't automatically lend themselves to chess.

Another thing there is diagonal movement. Hmm. Squeezing Zapper between two blocks would be interesting to see.

Maybe you'd be better off looking more towards a unique TOB-flavoured strategy game. I keep thinking of Archon here, but a better idea could feature the player selecting a group of units - including Zapper, Pusher and Grabber but also many others, some perhaps new - and then battling other groups in an arena featuring TOB elements such as enemy zappers, lifts, blocks... all manner of objects to either hinder or take advantage of. Teams then take turns - rather like Worms, in fact - operating a different team member each time and with either a time limit or a move limit in place. Objectives could include killing all the other team members off or a "capture the (flag) klondike" mission.

Thoughts?



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Just for the amusement of those among us who actually know how to knit a few bits and bytes together, I'd like to share one site I found. I'm sure it must be the absolutest most beautifullest and bestestdesignedest wikipedia-mirror of all times in the whole universe ever three times emphazied:

https://wikipädia.org/

Ain't it beautiful? I prefer to watch it using Firefox for maximum enjoyment.

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Dr. Hans Zarkov
Rocket scientist & freelance genius
Formerly of NASA
Deathrays a specialty