Bob's Wall of Vibrating Darkness?
Waining Demon from The Gather Mist?
Once upon a time, a prince was sleeping,
when the thief came and fell in love with them.
But they still visited from time to time. (?)
This is silly...
Exactly!
Create silly spell names, stories, and fantasy names with the Silly Phrase
Generator. It uses a custom scripting language, Silly Script.
So it is completely customizable and expandable,
although the language is still pretty limited at this point.
The zip file includes an interpreter, three instructional Silly Scripts
and the cheesy spell name Silly Script. Other Scripts,
which may be updated from time to time, may be downloaded at your leisure.
How's it work?
The program pretty much stopped here, which was a beta
version, it does the example scripts OK but there
are probably still a few bugs lurking.
Please report
any you find, but check below to be sure they haven't been found already.
Known bugs
- Feature
- If you place a {Format} on a line by itself, the end-of-line for that line
gets processed under {Format} rules, which could result in an unwanted
carrige return. Also, as far as putting keywords in {Format} blocks, don't,
just don't, it's messy.
- Resolved
- The automatic buffer flush on {Define} (and {Main}) sends the line to the
new rule, not the old.
- Resolved
- If end-of-file was encountered while in {Format} mode and inside a literal
quotation, the last item will not get entered.
- Feature
- The empty rule name, [], is a valid name.
Download
This version is dynamically linked to MFC. What that means is that if
you don't turn up anything doing find files or folders for mfc40*.dll,
it won't work. If not, try searching the web.
Static linking increases the size by about 9 times!
- SillyPhr.zip
- Requires: Win95, MFC .dll, .zip uncompression utility
- Size: 19kb ('scuse me while I blink)
- File Date: 1997-08-01
- Licence: Public Domain
- sphrase-src.zip
- Requires: Visual C++ or other ancient windows compiler, .zip uncompression utility
- Size: 56kb
- File Date: 2008-12-27
- Licence: Public Domain
Other Silly Scripts:
- Current version of spellnam.phr
- File Size: ~1kb
- Last Update: 1997-08-01
- Ex: Justin The Creator's Storm of Really Slimy Stone.
- Story.phr (ridiculous,
still a little rough,
but almost guarenteed to make you smile, if not laugh.)
- File Size: ~3kb
- Last Update: 1997-08-01
- Ex: Once upon a time, the beautiful princess with the treasure who was
long-lost was searching for a boat, when their old friend a giant with the
fire came to meet them again after main years. And then a storm came.
So everything was restored to it's former glory.
- EverName.phr, makes hero and realm names
for Everway(tm). Needs a little filtering, but comes up with
some interesting stuff every once and a while.
- File Size: ~1kb
- Last Update: 1997-08-01
- Ex: AirAmber from Swift KingdomHells.
- Chess.phr, Makes chess spell names, I was
using it to play with ideas for an extension to the
Circles of Power game in development.
- File Size: ~1kb
- Last Update: 1997-08-01
- Ex: Teleport your Rook to E7.
- ai.phr, a converted example from the book for
the AI class I had. Really simple.
- File Size: 438 bytes
- Last Update: 1997-08-01
- Ex: the man bites a dog.