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OKB -- not okblacke wrote:

> John Colagioia JColagioia@csi.com wrote:
> >As a minor reference point, the times I do things like that are not
> >dissimilar to what Mr. Wheeler is describing, here.  Typically, it's "a
> >long hallway" or other large room, and I end up calling the rooms
> >"Hall_1," "Hall_2," and so on, until I think of something more
> >appropriate (like "Outside the Lab," or whatever).
>
>      In The Big Mama, the object names (I mean the names of the actual
> programming objects) for the various parts of the beach were BeachCenter,
> BeachSouth, BeachSouth2, etc.  But the names displayed in the game text were
> all just "The Beach".  If I think I need to make a big location spread over
> more than one room, I'm tempted to just make 3 or 4 rooms which have the same
> location name, just different room descriptions and maybe different objects in
> them.

Right.  I should have mentioned that I'll leave the object names as the displayed
names so that, eventually, it'll start to annoy me enough that I'll fix them.

....Something that, oddly, doesn't seem to work in academic institutions.  This
year I've run two new courses with perfectly lousy names, hoping that someone
would force me to change them.  Wanna take bets on how that went...?


