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On Apr 17, 5:35=A0pm, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
<joh...@myrkraverk.com> wrote:
> dabreegs...@gmail.com writes:
> > I'm working on a project, and I need some ascii gears/cogs. I have no
> > talent myself and have been relying on automatic converters. However,
> > the smallest usable gear I can generate is 30x30 -- and that's way too
> > big. If anybody posts some decent smaller gears, I'll give credit in
> > my game. (It's going to be a multiplayer roguelike type thing)
>
> Why don't you tell us a bit about your game, and/or show us some url?
>
> > References:
> >http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html
> >http://www.dotcog.com/image_rotator/images/cog_sign.jpg
> >http://sidewayscycles.co.uk/i/00/04/58.jpg
>
> Johann

http://jigstar.ath.cx:1024/files/guitar.png
(URL should work unless my server's down)
There's a preview of one of the puzzles. The first town, Cyphen, is a
sort of dead-zone afterlife you end up in for various reasons. Picture
a town covered with snow, streetlamps, factories, and a clock tower.
Trolley tracks creep their way across the river and thrown the city.
That puzzle is a large fountain-like structure in which players
collaborate to first tune the guitar by rotating the gears (which are
too large right now, making the rest of Cyphen too large) and then
press patterns on frets.

The game itself (currently but not finally titled PerlRL, perl
roguelike) is a multiplayer roguelike, so see nethack/crawl/adom/tome
for great examples of the genre. PerlRL currently has a sort of
steampunk flair to it, but that's rapidly getting blended with my
newer ideas. I can get a tech demo distributed easily assuming your
platform has perl and ncurses and some modules, working on producing a
plain executable for the rest. ANything else you'd like to know? And I
like the base, Johann. Reminds me of what I had come up with myself:
      __
  /\ |  | /\
  \ \|__|/ /
   \/    \/
---|      |---
---|      |---
   /\____/\
  / /|  |\ \
  \/ |__| \/

But it just doesn't look as much like a cog as the larger examples in
the picture do. I guess it might just be a tradeoff