The Atomic Playboy and the Radiation Romeo

The button below will open a new browser window displaying the Flash interface for Atomic and Romeo (Version 16 with Preloader). You will find a page of introductory text, some instructions and then the interface where you can suggest a topic for conversation.





This version 16 uses the landscape layout, updates the heckler and end-of-conversation functions with an audio sign-off. All the features from previous versions remain - scroll bar control,custId variable allows me to better log and track conversations.


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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Atomic and Romeo reach Version 5.

I've been writing scripts for Atomic and Romeo on a eclectic range of topics. These are largely ways of dealing with Atomic's "I have no answer for that" statement.

The characters are beginning to exert their influence. When I'm writing I hear their character voices in my head. If something I write for one character makes the other one 'smile' or 'grimace' then the line stays.

Some of the material isn't completely awful - at this early stage I expected a much larger proportion of truly awful dialogue. One of the scripts that I was happy with ( I may not remain so enamoured with it) ran longer than the set length of 20 lines of dialogue. That was an arbitrary figure anyway - he says trying to come up with a good reason to expand the set length.  In Version 5 the characters exchange 26 lines before the random end of conversation text kicks in.

I've also begun playing with wildcards in the AIML. But I'll leave that for later.

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