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> In a little less than a year there will be Olympic games. Those of you
> that owned 8-bit computers may remember the hugely succesful computer
> games based on the Olympics. Usually they involved some 8 sports in which
> you could compete against friends or the computer. These games were not
> very complex. If they contained any scrolling it was sideways and on the
> whole only a few sprites were moved and animated. Gameplay: wiggle the
> joystick. Despite their simplicity they apparently involved a lot of
> programming, animating and composing. I remember reading that large teams
> worked on them.

I suppose with something like that, there will always be various
different events, so perhaps different people could arrange the
different events?  Something like that isn't a bad idea, actually..

> Of course, that was their strength. Lots of programmers and artists got
> assigned a relatively simple task that they could implement relatively
> indepently.
>
> If, say, we could gather about 20 programmers, we could make the biggest
> Olympics based computer game ever!

The only problem with an Olympics based computer game is... what
can you do with the idea that hasn't already been done?

>
> So I propose:
> -That the subscribers of the Amos discussion list form a group with the
> purpose of having a computer game based on the 1996 Olympic Games of
> Atlanta ready at the 1st of May 1996.

> Another problem is the communication between the modules. Although Amos
> can start (execute) other programs, I have found as yet no way of testing
> wether a program has ended or not. Also we need to find a safe way to
> transfer scoring data to and from the main program (and/or to and from a
> possible score keeping module).

I thought if you PRUN a program from within AMOS (if PRUN is what you
mean) it comes back to the original program only when the other has
finished?  Mind you, not sure what happens there when everything is
compiled?

As for transferring the score, you could either do it using COMMAND
LINE$ (probably the best idea) or just create a temporary file in
RAM containing all the variables needing to be passed.  The advantage
with that method is that it would be very easy to add new ones onto
the list etc.

> People might feel that this program will have no edge over the countless
> other games that will undoubtedly be based on the next Olympics. If there
> are enough programmers though (like my estimated 20), the sheer size will
> be the thing we have going for us. Otherwise we can always come up with
> something later. Classic Olympics for instance, set in ancient Greece
> (the game might even be banned in some countries if we used the
> traditional sportswear :-) ).

I think this is a much better idea.  Specific olympics games have
been done to death, I feel, but if we brought in original, less
serious ideas for the game it could be both fun, original and
entertaining.  That way we could also come up with our own personal
ideas and it would be a good source for a variety of different senses
of humour.  If you do something to rigidly (like conforming to an
Olympics game) it can become a bit too characterless, I feel.

Also, it could then involve lots of other people in it.  For example,
I'm not a great programmer, artist or musician, but I can
occasionally come up with some original ideas (incidentally, did I
mention Scro... oh, yes, I did, didn't I?)  People who don't want to
have to work really hard at it could occasionally chip in tiny ideas,
little quirks or strange hidden bits., so that the more you play the
game, the more you discover.  I like games like that.
>
> I really must stop talking now, because I could go on and on and on... I
> am really interested to know what you all think about my (and Eddie's of
> course) plan.

My opinion of it has changed a bit since my first thoughts.  It's not
a bad idea!
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