That's some nice spam you've got there. I bet a lot of people are going to click those links, because you totally managed to make that post programming related by mentioning that it was being ported from one shitty language to another.
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Anonymous2011-11-28 19:15
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Actually I don't think very many people will click those links. His post doesn't look programming related just because he made the comment about porting to Java.
Also, spam is never nice.
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Anonymous2011-11-28 19:17
>>2
It's not spam. It's a good game. And perhaps some of you EXPERT PROGRAMMERS could help the guy porting it over to Java. Or if not, you could just play it. It's fun.
It's pretty /prog/-related, considering how a big portion of the Elona community are /jp/sies, and /prog/ is /jp/'s sister board.
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Anonymous2011-11-28 19:19
>>3 programming related /prog/ You must be new here.
I liked Elona. Especially because I literally could be /prog/rider and ride a little girl. It's a pity that last time it was updated eons ago.
I heard something about users mod. What can /prog/ recommend?
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Anonymous2011-11-29 11:02
Elona is known for its rather odd humour. For example, upon entering the first town, the player can choose a pet, which can be "A Little Girl", which comes equipped like a warrior. Drinking water from a well can cause random effects ranging from getting the ability to wish for an item to summoning high level monsters such as Aliens which attack the townspeople, getting them pregnant and generating more and more aliens, eventually overrunning the town. The game also makes multiple references to anime, video games and mythology, such as the cursed sword "Ragnarok" that the player can steal from an NPC, which when equipped sets the map on fire and summons multiple high level titans and dragons, usually rendering the location unusable.
Interesting.
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Anonymous2011-11-29 13:09
>>12 It's a pity that last time it was updated eons ago.
It's not just that the updates are slow, the official development has been abandoned. Now it's being ported to Java by the community, and will continue to be developed and updated by the community... eventually.
The original version was programmed in an obscure procedural language called Hot Soup Processor. It's a coding nightmare, so maintaining and updating that version is pretty much impossible. That's why it's being rewritten in Java.
It was originally based on BASIC
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HSP is used to teach programming in Japanese schools, and because it is freeware, it was a popular programming language for doujin soft in the late 1990s.
Oh wow.