I'm seeing a lot of numbers, but not much DROD.
To contrast with that, I humbly present to you...
For Submission: Self-solving Room
The representation is a room in DROD. There are a few conditions:
1) Beethro must start in the lower left corner on a power token and must be surrounded by walls.
2) There must be a non-visible character in the room whose only commands are
Wait for clean room.
Go to Level Entrance (...)
3) There must be no other scripting in the room.
4) No clones.
5) No other rooms on the level.
6) The room must solve itself while the player waits. The player should not be able to influence the level in any way, so Beethro will need to be surrounded by thicker walls if goblins or the Slayer approach him. Actually, just stick him on oremites - that should stop him being effective.
The number that the room represents is the length of a victory demo recorded in that room.
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You can see some examples in the attached hold. For larger numbers we can get a stalwart to solve a variation on the Eternity holds as found in the
Longest Room thread.
This room should contain about the same number of pad-steps as the original Eternity had orb-hits. 324,518,553,658,426,726,783,156,020,576,265 give or take a factor of 2. Either way that's more than the maximum, so by setting the position of the stalwart/doors correctly, you can get any number less than that.
If we want just one representation per number, then use the final room to represent all numbers.
a) Set the room running until the move that ends it (in the editor)
b) Hit undo (n-1) times
c) That is the representation of the DROD number n.
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Tests:
Tattoo test: It is a DROD room. 10/10
Actually, you'd need to add door associations, so you'd need to do those with lines or lightning bolts or something. Unless you're just using the one-to-one eternity representation, in which case you can treat the orb associations as fixed.
Drawn in Blood Test: 38*32 squares. (plus maybe orb associations) Highly efficient! (assuming you can work out some way of representing black and yellow doors in red :/ )
10/10
The Cocktail Napkin Test: I assume everyone carries around a laptop with DROD installed at all times, so you don't even
need a cocktail napkin! 10/10
The "
Hey, I Know You!"
Test: Again, take your DROD-laptop and make up the room, then just hit ctrl-5 until the room completes, then look at the demo screen. Easy peasy! 10/10
overall: 10/10
Perfect score! Yay!
[Last edited by Rabscuttle at 02-17-2008 07:50 AM]
