how was this made? is the z-code available? I know there is a parchment javascript library where you can run z-code in the browser.
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#32Blurry text is worse than the real life equivalent! Sorry can't play it, makes my eyes go funny. Can you turn that text blur off or down?
I completely agree, it started giving me a headache almost immediately. Won't come back until the blurry text is gone.
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#33If you wish to give feedback or ask questions; please go ahead. I and a workmate did this at a work-related hackathon a couple weeks ago.
Well, my first instinct on the design puzzle was something among the lines of http://xkcd.com/149/
I was a little surprised to get a "no such command" error, especially after finding out the actual solution...
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#34How to enter the convention
Tip: "a Unix beard" is not a description of the bearded man. its another item on the list of things you see
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#35Is it normal for text adventures you just have to try random stuff? I had no clue how to get design. I thought I had missed a clue from the developer maybe. Turned out I just needed to enter a command that was not introduced before, or listed in the help page.
The message when you try to get the design is a pretty big clue.
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#36If you wish to give feedback or ask questions; please go ahead. I and a workmate did this at a work-related hackathon a couple weeks ago.
Thanks! That was some nice entertainment for the morning :)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
try "say neverdeployonfriday"
Ah.. Help text should really be updated.
It's traditional in text adventures that you infer un-helped verbs from the text (that is, if the verb is clued at all): here the wizard instructs you to 'say' the answer.
Text adventures used to be hard!
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#38Great fun. Quick pointer though - the convention in IF games is to map X (for eXamine) to look at. Kept tripping me up.
This! And tons of other things that would have been better if this had been made using inform.
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#39The ancient cloud guru URL thing.. a proxy here in the way stripped out the answer, I had to curl through tor. go figure.
edit: just finished. I laughed at some bits, all in all I enjoyed it. I facepalmed when I realised I needed chmod (which I had to look at jsbeautified app.js to get the hint - I was trying su/sudo!).
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#40Is it normal for text adventures you just have to try random stuff? I had no clue how to get design. I thought I had missed a clue from the developer maybe. Turned out I just needed to enter a command that was not introduced before, or listed in the help page.
The source is also its own clue; just search for the error message and read the source around it.
That's a strategy that works with many error messages in many programs, not just in this game.