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Submission + - Slashdot Alum Samzenpus's Fractured Veil Hits Kickstarter

Submitted by CmdrTaco
CmdrTaco writes: Long time Slashdot readers remember Samzenpus,who posted over 17,000 stories here, sadly crushing my record in the process! What you might NOT know is that he was frequently the Dungeon Master for D&D campaigns played by the original Slashdot crew, and for the last few years he has been applying these skills with fellow Slashdot editorial alum Chris DiBona to a Survival game called Fractured Veil. It's set in a post apocalyptic Hawaii with a huge world based on real map data to explore, as well as careful balance between PVP & PVE. I figured a lot of our old friends would love to help them meet their kickstarter goal and then help us build bases and murder monsters! The game is turning into something pretty great and I'm excited to see it in the wild!

Comment Re:Pay to access puzzles (Score 1) 32

I was in the tournament and can give one example of a clue/answer I remember encountering, that might give you some idea of how hard this is: "Large amount of gratuitous goose feathers?" (12 letters) The question mark at the end indicates the answer is somewhat jokey or punny. The answer is rot13("SERRQBJAYBNQ"). That phrase might appear in a really big dictionary, or perhaps a big corpus of written word, but that's not true all the time. There are often about half a dozen such 'long answers' in crossword puzzles, and sometimes they are punny variants of common English phrases, or broken up in odd ways because of some weird directional rule, like 'the direction of a word changes when it encounters a shaded square'. Generally these rules are specific to a particular crossword puzzle, and are not made explicit in the puzzle description but must be intuited based on experience or discovered by trial and error. So while computers are well-suited to some of the brute force work in solving a crossword, the fact that Dr. Fill finishes the puzzle all the way is impressive.

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