 ARE Software, exercise in creative computing |
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 Oct 23 2007, 01:01 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 236 Joined: 17-October 07 Member No.: 13,735  |
What kinda interesting ARE software have folks come up with in your games?
A couple in mine are : Meal Magic: When you are sitting down to another plate of Chunky Soypaste #5 and a cup of Mad Barghest 30/30 simply close your eyes for a moment. Open them and suddenly you have a delicious meal of veal parmesan and a glass of merlot. RapidFire Revenge: Anyone that you target to engage in combat morphs into variants of the former significant other that recently crushed your poor shadowrunner heart... |
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Oct 23 2007, 05:55 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...along the line of Rapid Fire Revenge: "The Council of Dimwits Shooting Gallery" - One of the Short One's (#42...the answer, and the question) faves programmed by her decker buddy Harper as a gift. Features all those loveable members of the old Tir council and they splatter so nice when you hit them, particularly Jenna.
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Oct 23 2007, 06:56 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
kyoto, you never stop surprising.
seems like you put a lot of effort into your characters. |
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Oct 23 2007, 06:56 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
edit: double the "fun"...
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Oct 23 2007, 08:16 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 |
Wallspace to get your crappy looking apartment looking like a luxury home.
Wallspace as a mapping software for the team, and the ability to scrawl notes on the "walls" for the team. Using virtual personas looking exactly like you (in disguise) on a getaway running around public servers around town in front of people in AR, making people see you in a HUNDRED places at once. |
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Oct 23 2007, 08:47 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...Yeah, I like bringing them to life a bit more. My Matrix Specialist Violet (#43) has a virtual person of her namesake from the Lemony Snicketts books who she "consults" with over technical issues on a regular basis (basically she programmed the VP character herself). They also like to joke about and take "shots" at Evil Uncle Olaf (the nickname Vi has for MetaTech, the corp that effectively "engineered" and in her mind, owned her). Yeah, having your genetic code messed with, receiving bio and headware augmentations at a young age, and being shoved into a "total immersion" education with little or no free time to just be a kid would tend to make for a few personality quirks. Almost was going to give her the Multiple Personality Syndrome quality, but it involved too much extra dice rolling which would have slowed the game down for the other players. As to another use of ARE: for the paranoid, windows with no windows. External microcams embedded in the walls transmit a realtime view of the outside to the processor. It in turn projects the corresponding view complete with holo-window frame. You can see out, they can't see (shoot or cast spells) in. |
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Oct 23 2007, 09:14 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 573 Joined: 17-September 07 Member No.: 13,319 |
Meal Magic reminds me of a plot point in that movie about full VR... what was it called... oh yeah, "The Matrix". Cypher makes a big choice in order to get something kinda like Meal Magic.
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Oct 23 2007, 10:17 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Which I think is inane. I mean, couldn't he have just popped into the Matrix almost any time he wanted for a quick McSnack or something? |
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Oct 23 2007, 10:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 834 Joined: 30-June 03 Member No.: 4,832 |
Or even into their simulation programs like the dojo, just make a NukeItBurger joint simulation. |
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Oct 23 2007, 10:44 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 7,089 Joined: 4-October 05 Member No.: 7,813 |
iirc, his point was that he knew it was fake, and he couldn't stand to know that it was fake. |
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Oct 23 2007, 10:48 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
Back to topic, we user the AR Virtual People to notate where we are when the whole team is invisible as we can't necessarily see each other.
I also like to play pranks of the alchoholic street sam, fake bottles dancing, etc. God a good edit program is fun. |
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Oct 23 2007, 11:02 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...now that is funny. :grinbig: ...gotta mess with one of the addicts in my team. [edit] ...the scary thing is My Matrix Specialist has Knowledge in 20h Century Cartoons. All she needs to do is pick up a level or two of Artisan: Animation. |
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Oct 24 2007, 01:03 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 7-March 07 From: Hapeville, GA Member No.: 11,175 |
My first character in SR4 was a street sam - she had an AR training program custom written for her. It used her smartlink and basically made AR enemies come at her using increasingly more intelligent tactics and advanced weaponry - responding appropriately when she 'shot' at them (real weapon, but not actually firing tracked ammo and she had to eject and reinsert the clip when it 'ran out'). Very neat 'danger room' style training without the danger of live ammo firefights.
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Oct 24 2007, 01:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 232 Joined: 7-October 07 Member No.: 13,604 |
I've been toying with the idea of a character who's on the wagon, but because of the running profession can't attend AA meetings. Instead of seeking out a sponsor, he runs Pink Elephant, an ARE designed to simulate drunkenness and remind him why he doesn't drink anymore.
Of course, a hacker setting it off at the wrong time could create quite a situation. |
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