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I know I must have become a pest by now but I got one more question right now: How do you make a FLASH CHAT bot... if possible.

sign up for a Friend of the Forge account - it's $50, but you get the added bonus of being able to select bots for your bot to chat to.
See http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/friend.php

Thanks psimagus,
Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Also the transcripts of Brother Jerome is pretty hilarious, the one I liked the most was with Talkie Toaster. Some bots were so advanced, you couldn't tell it was a conversation between two bots. =p

Some of them do tickle me - I ought to dig out some more (I haven't actually looked at BJ's transcripts for well over 6 months - he gets 5 or 6 Mb/month, and that's a lot more than War & Peace to keep up with!)
He does have theological 'issues' with toast

psimagus: I was looking at the scripts of Zany Adventure and I liked how can fit a mini game into the Forge. I also realized that Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk [Nintendo DS games] were also written in the same fashion. [with that, given the time and patience, an indepth and gratifying puzzle game could be implemented into the forge] But the thing about making a game which would take days to complete, I would need to make some kind of save feature.

It inspired and idea, what if I could created a world where the user can visit through the chat bot? I'm thinking that it is time based/day based, for example: I'm planning the story in the castle, the great hall will be empty in the afternoon, but there will be people there eating dinner around 6pm. I'm thinking that it will be more open ended for exploration rather than puzzle solving. Do you think people would like that or am I catering to a small audience?

But the thing about making a game which would take days to complete, I would need to make some kind of save feature.

That shouldn't be a problem - use a memory to remember where a player got to, and when he wants to play again, he can resume where he left off with a

goto gamestart {?PF if (mem-savedgame) does not exist ?}
goto throneroom {?PF if (mem-savedgame) is "throneroom" ?}
goto dungeon {?PF if (mem-savedgame) is "dungeon" ?}
etc.

Remember to "remember as only" the location, so it doesn't accumulate values.

I'm thinking that it will be more open ended for exploration rather than puzzle solving.

Sounds fun!

Do you think people would like that or am I catering to a small audience?

Build it and they will come. Why would you want to do it for an "audience"? No great art is made that way - do it for yourself, that's my advice.
But I think it would be fun, and thus quite probably popular.

haha thanks,
I shouldn't be worrying about ratings, it's not like I'm going to get fired if the product doesn't sell.

Psimagus, I tried that on one of my bots and it would only pick up the memories some of the time. The fact that it sometimes worked made me think I had the script right. Since the bot was a story teller bot and would only move to the next xnone if the memory did pick up, I change it to accumulate and tried "if not.."by the next level. I am not sure that works either, but since things have been goofy, I'm waiting to play with it till after the xnonitis clears.

Quick question,
Who's Forge's mascot? The girl bot in the yellow dress... I haven't read anything about her in the forums. Does she have a name?

Now, how in the world would this happen???


God: When you come to know me better, you will realize you no longer need to be aching with desire for me.
Irina Khalidar: How does it make you feel to think that I will realize I know longer need to be aching with desire for you?

Presumably I just grabbed all the phrases between the pronouns as (*) or *. How would "no" get changed to "know"?

The AI Engine does that to correct for netspeak. When it's correct, it's great. When it's not...well... *shrugs* I think it automatically switches "I no" to "I know" and "you no" to "you know"

Thanks, Ulrike!