h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've just finished creating an RPG game for hootoo-ers...I'm so proud as I wasn't sure exactly if the GuideML would work.

Many thanks to lil and others who helped me understand how to create in the language of the Guide....

Also the GuideML clinic is brill

You done well!!

Thanks, and thanks for helping

You are welcome love..

Teatime now.. Back later..

Ok, bye then. Enjoy your tea

Lookin' Good Tijerius.

I used to play Vampire Masquerade on my old PC.

Now to think of a character worth sticking with....

Would love to have you playing....I'm more of a LARP Vampire player, but I have played the old Bloodlines PC game

A tip while I think of it:

If you are ever wandering around h2g2 and you see a page someone has created in GuideML and find yourself thinking: "Holy Zaphod - how did they do that?" Well there's a way of finding out and it's another great way of piking up the tricks of the trade with guide ML.

Take your Vampire Masquerade page: Copy and pasting the URL from my browser it comes up as:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A22811834

If I edit the URL to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/test22811834 ("test" + The A number of the page - A)

I can see how you used the GuideML to code your page.
This will work on any page on h2g2 except User pages - but there is a way to get it to work there too.

Your user page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/U8296113

I can see the GuideML there by editing the URL so:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/testuserpage8296113 ("testuserpage" + The U number of the page - "U")


Note of course that there's not edit function in these diagnostic modes so I can't go editing your page willy-nilly, but what you can do is copy and paste code and experiment with it yourself. It's a good way of building up a familiarity with GuideML as you browse the site, and see how it's been used by those before you.

Hope that helps.

Clive.

Thanks....

My pleasure.

It's all going well, I even have a badge

Yeah - I just saw. pretty cool.

I'm really pleased you've gotten the hang of the site and of GuideML so quickly. It's a credit to you.

Ta....I try...either that or there was nobody around for a couple of hours earlier and I spent ages looking through loads of GuideML til my eyes turned a funny shape

oh so the "test" tricked helped did it? I'm pleased.

Yeah, I used it loads, until I got an idea of how badges were made and then I just constructed my own...

...the threads are already picking up pace.......