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Re: Show HN: A text adventure for developers

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Post by willvarfar »

badbanana wrote: post #2

If 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.

One fun idea for you is to theme it as an IDE and code rather than a classic terminal text adventure?

I tried it for an LD a while back but http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Th... didn't really get the text itself to look like code from a squint test, nor get syntax completion finished in time.

Re: Show HN: A text adventure for developers

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Post by xtrumanx »

badbanana wrote: post #2

If 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.

The aesthetics does not make for easy reading. Never was interested in text adventures in the first place but the blurriness made me quit the game faster than I would have.

Re: Show HN: A text adventure for developers

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Post by JoshTriplett »

Slightly sad to see that "ask man about emacs" didn't work. I was pretty amused by the "Don't know anything about that" when queried about "open source", though.

"look at tunnel" should work after opening the tunnel.

I love the background changes.

Why does "get container" not work? The response didn't give a reason.

"Welcome to the developer console; you were kind of expected." made me laugh.

...why can I deploy the beard?

The music at the end was unexpected.

Re: Show HN: A text adventure for developers

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Post by badbanana »

xtrumanx wrote: post #4
badbanana wrote: post #2

If 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.

The aesthetics does not make for easy reading. Never was interested in text adventures in the first place but the blurriness made me quit the game faster than I would have.

Yeah you're not the only one saying that. I guess text games aren't what the kids want these days :)

There should probably be a switch to turn off the bad screen effects.

Re: Show HN: A text adventure for developers

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Post by badbanana »

willvarfar wrote: post #3
badbanana wrote: post #2

If 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.

One fun idea for you is to theme it as an IDE and code rather than a classic terminal text adventure? I tried it for an LD a while back but http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Th... didn't really get the text itself to look like code from a squint test, nor get syntax completion finished in time.

That's actually a super cool idea for a developer themed text game. Was it a web based game and is it still playable somewhere?

Re: Show HN: A text adventure for developers

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Post by badbanana »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #5

Slightly sad to see that "ask man about emacs" didn't work. I was pretty amused by the "Don't know anything about that" when queried about "open source", though. "look at tunnel" should work after opening the tunnel. I love the background changes. Why does "get container" not work? The response didn't give a reason. "Welcome to the developer console; you were kind of expected." made me laugh. ...why can I deploy the…

Time constraints kept us from fleshing out all characters and descriptions.

"get container" should give some feedback that you're not able to pick it up, so that'd be a bug then.

Deploying the unix beard was a bug initially, but I left it in because I thought it was kind of funny.

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