Grain of Salt
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Pizza: A wide variety of ingredients combined in a way that makes the whole noticeably greater than the sum of parts. Examples: Kama Sutra. Scythe 2.
Hawaiian Pizza: A specific type of pizza that makes you question the author’s grip on reality. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes not. Often a matter of taste. If you make Hawaiian pizza, don’t expect everyone to eat it.
Cheese and Tomato Sandwich: A pizza made by someone who doesn’t eat pizza and doesn’t really care how it’s made. The ingredients seem like they should do something, but they never really do. They don’t interact, they just exist in the same place. Examples: Whenever you play a map where entering every new room means waking things up and falling back to a completely safe place, what you have there is probably a cheese and tomato sandwich. Enjoy.
Chocolate: Just one or two ingredients, but on a massive scale. Lots of fun, but can become dull very quickly, or just ends up feeling like a waste of time. Just like real chocolate, it can go well with other foods if you do it well, or it can clash terribly and make you feel nauseous. Examples: Plutonia MAP11, TEETH.WAD MAP32. Lots of slaughtermaps have examples of mixing chocolate with pizza, but Deus Vult (the original) has some of the most instructive (in both ways) examples I can think of.
Soup: A wide variety of ingredients, but with barely any productive interaction. The hallmark of soup is when you can add more ingredients without changing the results much at all. Badly made teleportation traps often do this — you can make teleportation traps that provide a measured contribution to the gameplay, but if you’re warping in five of every monster to the same spot in a square room, you’re probably just making soup. Examples: Nuts. Yes, you can change the outcome of Nuts if you add more armies of monsters, but you can’t change the tone of the gameplay.
Note that a cheese and tomato sandwich would also qualify as soup in most cases. This is because analogies are stupid. I don't even like pizza that much. Bah.
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