神河当時 - 『神河謀叛』のMO実装

The Non-Tales From Betrayers
Since Betrayers of Kamigawa happens to be on many Magic players’ minds, I thought now would be a good time to bug (heh... I’m so punny) the Magic Online programmers for fun Betrayers developer stories. I e-mailed Alan Comer, Rachel Reynolds, and Elf (who’s Elf? find out in two weeks!) to be thinking about what stories they’d like to share. They didn’t answer right away, but I figured they were concocting something. Then the deadline for my article approached, so I pressed them a little. Still no answer. Finally, we ended up having a conversation that went something like this (okay, I’m embellishing) (okay, a lot):

JMS: Deadline’s here! What stories do you all have from Betrayers you can share?

AC/RR/Elf: (silence)

JMS: You guys mad at me or something? On strike?

RR: Um, no. It’s just that...

JMS: What?

AC: Ah, see. There are no Betrayers stories.

JMS: (silence) You’re kidding me.

AC: Nope.

JMS: None at all? Nothing unexpectedly challenging? Nothing like the flip cards from Champions you had to get creative on?

AC: Nope.

JMS: Come on! There has to be something!

Elf: Well...

JMS: Yes, speak up you in the back there.

Elf: Well, something happened with Sway of the Stars. It was working great, but seemingly randomly you would sometimes draw less than the seven cards. Turns out that if there were tokens in the game it was shuffling them into your deck. If it did that and then tried to deal a token to you it would of course just poof, so you’d end up with less than seven cards. We noticed that pretty quickly and fixed it, though.

JMS: Okay, that’s a good start. What else?

AC/RR/Elf: (silence)

Elf: Oo! Oo! I know! Takeno’s Cavalry worked at first to deal damage to “attacking creatures” and “blocking spirits” instead of “attacking spirits” and “blocking spirits.” We fixed that quickly too, though.

JMS: That’s it!?!

AC: We sort of noticed everything quickly and fixed it. Sorry Jay. Betrayers was easy.

JMS: (sighs) Alright. Thanks for trying. Try to mess something up in Saviors, though, alright? I can’t make up another dialogue like this.

AC: Will do.

引用元
INTOTHEAETHER IS PRISMATASTIC Posted in Feature on February 8, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/intotheaether-prismatastic-2005-02-08

『神河謀叛』をMOに実装するにあたって苦労したエピソード、を語ろうとしたのですが、思ったよりもネタがないようです。些細なバグはいくらかあったのですが、すぐに直っています。『神河物語』の時（※１）には、反転の実装で１つのエピソードができたのですが。

もちろん、プログラマーにとってはスムーズにいくに越したことはありません。ただ、コラムニストとしては、ネタにならないので困りものです。



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神河当時 - 反転のMO実装
https://researchofkamigawa.diarynote.jp/202012252214503175/