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| ====== The Improbable Island Wiki of Lies ====== | ====== Legend of the Green Dragon (LotGD) ====== |
| | > http://www.lotgd.net/home.php |
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| As opposed to this wiki, which would never lie to you. Honest. | HERE BE DRAGONS. |
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| Another remnant from [[meta:history:pilot|The Pilot]], the Wiki of Lies was... well. It was a wiki. Much like the one you're looking reading now, but with way worse file structure and way more editors. We had exactly one standard back then(("Keep content in line with the main site's rules.")), so pages were dumped all over the place with reckless disregard for organization. | //Legend of the Green Dragon// is Improbable Island's precursor, and a re-imagining of an even older roleplaying game //[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon|Legend of the Red Dragon]]//. |
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| Despite the frankly bizarre sitemap, the old wiki provides quite a lot of information on lot the old seasons were like. Pages were rarely ever deleted, and and some guides simply <del>struck out old text</del> when a site feature changed, instead of deleting and replacing it. It's somewhere between an artsy visual metaphor for how gameplay has grown and changed, and a labyrinth with mysterious in-jokes etched into the walls. | bla bla bla article outline here |
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| Much like [[meta:history:forums|the forums]], the Wiki of Lies broke following a server move in 2017. Accounts couldn't be made from that point forward, and existing editors had to wrestle with a barely functioning interface to get shit done. When the fifth((Maybe??)) server move in 2023 smacked it with //worse// problems, CMJ went "fuck this" and pulled the plug. The old wiki now lies dead, preserved in read-only form, which you can peruse [[https://oldwiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=start|here]]. Its spirit lives on in this phoenix of a subdomain or something. | * Same overarching gameplay structure. Guy arrives in town, gets told theres a dragon they need to kill, trains against masters until they hit level 14 and then goes off to slay the dragon. kill the dragon, start over from level one. It has more of a fantasy flair than the island's science fiction, of course. As well as the Pilot's weird turn-based system instead of Stamina. But the beats are all there. |
| | * Source of a good number of the island's mechanics and a couple of the NPCs. (e.g. the Forest became the Jungle, the Graveyard became the Failboat, Drive Kills are still referred to as Dragon Kills in the hall of fame, etc.)((Seth the Bard is an exception - he's actually from the original Red Dragon game!)) |
| | * Legend of the Green Dragon is an old game, originally being written in the original php script. (For comparison's sake: at the time of writing, the island runs on PHP8.) Originally created by Eric Stevens, but the code is now being maintained by the Dragonprime Development Team. The Dragonprime engine was released under a Creative Commons license, meaning anyone is free to yoink the code and host their own version of the game. |
| | * And so that's what CMJ did - after getting rid of all the dragons and rejiggering the hell out of the code. |
| | * While there's not much left of the original LotGD code in the game, we wouldn't be here without the hard work of the devs of old. If you enjoy your time on the island, and have some cash to spare, you can find a link to donate to Eric's paypal on the Island's donation page. Just click the coin slot and scroll down a bit. |
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| If there's something you'd like to learn about, use the search bar - the sitemap will get you nowhere. If you see an article there worth preserving - steal it! Click the "view source" button on the side of the page, then copy the result into an appropriate new page here. Keep in mind it won't update links, so be sure to update [[blanjipan|any ridiculous red links you see]] to logical namespaces. | |
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| For those looking to contribute to this particular wiki, don't ever get nervous about quality. It's true that some of the articles here are a little more wordy(((And a lot less funny.) )) than they were back then, but we still only have two standards.((//"Does it obey the Island's Code of Conduct?"// and //"Did you put that in the right place?"//.)) There is no minimum wordcount. There is no page structure to adhere to. And if an article is long, it's only because some editors' idea of fun is rambling about video games to a captive audience. | |
| ====== A History of the Bingo Hall, As Written By A Scholary Type ====== | ====== A History of the Bingo Hall, As Written By A Scholary Type ====== |
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| * [[https://oldwiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=season_two_changelog|Season Two changelog]]. Only I could find this interesting. | * [[https://oldwiki.improbableisland.com/doku.php?id=season_two_changelog|Season Two changelog]]. Only I could find this interesting. |
| * jesus. things you post on the internet really do stay forever. hello, person reading this. | * jesus. things you post on the internet really do stay forever. hello, person reading this. |
| | * [[https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/trains-|Trains!]] - Holy shit, the Improbable Trains Compendium pdf listed here has a full analysis of Train functionality. delicious historical preservation |
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| ===== Before ===== | ===== Before ===== |