Re: Guessing the verb in Cattus Atrox

[glasser@DELETEuscom.com (David Glasser)]

<edromia@concentric.net> wrote:

> This reminds me of an interesting incident in Losing Your Grip.
> 
> I'm in the hospital, right? In the second fit. And I finally got that old
> lady in the wheelchair back to her room. All of a sudden, she starts to
> flatline. By this time I've been pretty well drawn into the game, so of
> course I start to freak out. I don't have any idea what I typed, but I know
> it didn't do any good. Doctors brush past, wheeling a crash-cart. The room
> description is all blinking lights and people yelling "stat!" I don't know,
> I was probably just pushing "z", feeling totally useless and pretty damn
> sure that I was in the process of losing the game, or at least locking
> myself out of a winning scenario, and I *really* didn't want that old lady
> to die.
> 
> Then (and I don't remember the exact wording, but it was pretty close to
> this), the head doctor looked right at me and said: "Foo Bar. Right
> now."
> 
> Without even thinking, I typed in FOO BAR, and sonuvagun, it worked.
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The sacred grail that I think about when beta-testing is this: What goes
out must go in.

Mention a noun or adjective?  Implement it.  Use a verb in a way that a
player would?  Implement it.  Use a noun?  Implement it.  Mention an
object in any printed text?  Implement it.

This probably pisses off the people I am helping to a great degree.
(Just ask Christopher Huang, and I could guess his answer.)

Now, everyone, repeat: What goes out must go in.

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