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dark steve · Posts: 3002

Sklathill you BUTCHER

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

i guess this is it!

dark steve · Posts: 3002

Well.

THE CONTEST IS STILL OPEN

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posts: 3148

what the fuck?

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

KILLBOT GOES TO THE STORE

When's this end?

dark steve · Posts: 3002

I just wanna see if I get more entries.

I mean the all three are great, but this was a pretty disappointing turn out considering how many people pledged to do this.

Screwtape · Posts: 81

dark steve wrote:

I mean the all three are great, but this was a pretty disappointing turn out considering how many people pledged to do this.

IF is harder than it looks?

dark steve · Posts: 3002

Well. If anyone's still building, post and I'll push the deadline back a bit more. Otherwise, I'll just announce the winner on monday evening.

Nana Komatsu · Posts: 697

I started working, but I'm gonna need like six months unless you want a one room game.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

Dessgeega's entry is a five room game.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

dark steve wrote:

Dessgeega's entry is a five room game.

ROBOT GARDENING

dark steve · Posts: 3002

The next contest is going to come with a room limit, for sure.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

Um, I just installed Inform 7 to see what you guys have made but the program doesn't seem to be able to read the files at all. How do I make this machine listen?

To be specific, the problem seems to lie in the file. The ones Dess and Profissors provided seem to be z5 files while the program seems to be looking for a directory of some sort. Hm.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

you're trying to run the games in the programming kit! you need an interpreter!

try winfrotz if you're on windows.

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

Get Frotz.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

I was thinking something like that might be the case.

Dess is on the scene!

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

Kill botz was amusing! I wish it was more detailed though.

Robot Gardening is frustrating me because I feel like I have a vocabulary of 5 words in a completely foreign country. Why couldn't you make SELF DESTRUCT an option, Dess??

Mr. Business · Posts: 1530

I'm too dumb to solve either of these.

Wait, I think I just made some progress in Killbot.

It's sort of silly that my life is easier as a Killbot than as a horticulturally inclined robot.

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

Most of Killbot's problems can be solved by killing things, or throwing things at other things.

Mr. Business · Posts: 1530

I didn't manage to get all 10 points, but I did finish the game.

Monthenor · Posts: 455

Okay, I'll put it here too: Something Terrible

KILLBOT is great but Dessgeega defeated me.

Why did the other thread temporarily disappear?

dark steve wrote:

Dessgeega's entry is a five room game.

So was mine, until a phenomenally boring trip to Wisconsin gave me extra time. Has anybody found the happiest ending yet?

dark steve · Posts: 3002

I haven't sat down and really brute forced it yet! I'm taking Logic as a summer class and it's really a lot more intense than i'd have thought, so I've only given it two tries. I have graph paper set aside, though!

Mr. Business · Posts: 1530

Monethor, I'm not exactly sure what this .zlb file is, but it does not run in Winfrotz. I am not clever. Please help me play.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

Mr. Business wrote:

Monethor, I'm not exactly sure what this .zlb file is, but it does not run in Winfrotz.

it should run in the newest version of winfrotz.

ApM · Posts: 113

I can only get to five rooms, Monthenor! I've mapped them out and I'm pretty sure that's all I can get to. And I can't figure out any useful actions in any of them.

Help a brother out!

Mr. Business: It is a "blorb" file. WinFrotz is somewhat out of date with the latest IF standards. Try Windows Frotz instead?

Mr. Business · Posts: 1530

Monethor, your game is easily one of the hardest ones yet.

Intentionally Wrong · Posts: 673

Jesus fuck. I mean, I know I'm normally a pretty flaky guy, but this time around it's like the entire universe is conspiring to prevent me from finishing my game. Just in the past 48 hours:

-The citywide garage sale started this weekend. (I'm kind of obligated to help out with the occasional lifting jobs.)
-My workplace has been understaffed to the point that we're all doing overtime, and then Saturday one of my coworkers had to be removed on a stretcher.
-TMI barrier: The girl I started dating last week decided to give me a blowjob. The last one I got was in April of 2001.
-My fourteen-year-old dog just suffered a tracheal collapse, and we had to get him to the emergency vet. He'll be on oxygen and possibly cough suppressant until the morning.

Anyway. My work schedule is such that Monday serves as my Friday, so if we could extend the deadline to Noon on Tuesday, I should have these last few issues nailed by then.

Monthenor · Posts: 455

ApM wrote:

I can only get to five rooms, Monthenor! I've mapped them out and I'm pretty sure that's all I can get to. And I can't figure out any useful actions in any of them.

Help a brother out!

Well, if you've found the fifth room you've found the way out. It's just that that fifth room doesn't exactly match the gameplay of the other four.

SpOiLeRz? I am a lexical geek, so I made sure I spelled everything correctly...excepting for the book joke.

Mr. Business wrote:

Monthenor, your game is easily one of the hardest ones yet.

I will take that as a compliment; I hope it's not stupid-hard. I am really not a fan of standard IF, where you can know generally what you want to do but not the specific word/phrase that makes it happen. I believe that the solution to puzzles should be in what you want to do, and not how to do it.

That's why I'm not so fond of Robot Gardening -- sorry Dess, and this is probably just my bruised gaming ego talking, but I reached my limit after the 50th variation of "get/jump/destroy frotzing sky disc".

It's perhaps noteworthy that I implemented only one completely new action, which I copied right out of the Inform documentation: "read". And that was just for a side gag. The rest of my "new" stuff is just synonyms for other actions, like my problem with "pull lever" versus "switch lever on". The puzzles I did implement are supposed to be emotional in nature. If you play this looking for a shiny trophy, you're going to end up sad.

ApM · Posts: 113

I assume you haven't finished Robot Gardening, Monthenor, since that's not what you have to do.

Also, you sonofabitch! I totally noticed that but thought you'd done it by accident.

Monthenor · Posts: 455

ApM wrote:

I assume you haven't finished Robot Gardening, Monthenor, since that's not what you have to do.

Like I said, I hate/am bad at IF. I'll give it another shot, then.

ApM wrote:

Also, you sonofabitch! I totally noticed that but thought you'd done it by accident.

And that is the reaction I was going for!

dark steve · Posts: 3002

A hint for robot gardening (spoiler tagged although it's not much of a spoiler but hey): Solving the real puzzle makes the game solution very obvious.

Takashi · Posts: 820

I'm totally delivering this wednesday. I sorta fucked up an exam, so i'm stuck in study.

Monthenor · Posts: 455

Okay, finished Robot Gardener. Is examining flowers repeatedly the only way to learn about the pew pew pew?

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

I'm stuck at making the disc flicker orange. :/

Monthenor · Posts: 455

Persona-sama wrote:

I'm stuck at bork bork bork

That's another red herring, actually. The sky disc exists as an important detail, but not something you interact with directly.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

That's what I was thinking. Does the fact that it flickers every other action you do have any significance?

I know those flowers have some meaning in the way they're arranged. What is it? I am lost inside a giant coffee can carpeted in linoleum!

Monthenor · Posts: 455

It's only significant if you can remember a time in real life when you've seen a disc on the ceiling with a blinking light. I believe you're on the right track with the flowers. I finally figured out what they were for after I examined them like twenty times.

222222 is the new black.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

Well shnaps.

Is there a way to end the game without dying?

Monthenor · Posts: 455

Nobody escapes life, man. You just have to live it like you want.

Dess and I apparently made similar points with our games, but hers is infinitely more game-like. Or am I just projecting?

This is IC, we must all overanalyze these games and write deep critical analyses! Professor Scissors, does your stoplight symbolize man's struggle versus nature vis a vis fudge ripple ice cream?

Baines · Posts: 906

KILLBOT GOES TO THE STORE -- Short but entertaining. Might be buggy, but can't really tell due the design of the game. The hallway certainly seems buggy, with an error message and not listing exits. Could only get 9 points, and not sure there is actually an attainable tenth point.

Something Terrible -- Reminds me of a kinder, gentler Little Blue Men for some reason. With a better puzzle. (http://www.wurb.com/if/game/471)

Robot Gardening -- No offense to Dessgeega, but I just couldn't force myself to play through this one. It reminds me too much of the reasons I quit playing IF years ago. Obfuscated puzzles and an annoying map. Just not my cup of tea, though I'm sure it is exactly what some others would want. (One thing that has bugged me about the modern IF community is that a few people tend to think there is only one worthwhile style, despite evidence that there are people that still like the "classic" form. So I'm not going to complain too much that Robot Gardening may be a bit too "classic" for me.)

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

The ERROR in the hallway is intentionall. Killbot Goes to the Store isn't buggy, but Killbot is.

And yes, there are ten obtainiable points. The hardest one is for killing the BLUE HUMAN.

Lobst · Posts: 96

Intentionally Wrong, I know you're probably trying right this second, but if you could put out your game soon I'd really like to take a crack at it.

Baines · Posts: 906

professor_scissors wrote:

The ERROR in the hallway is intentionall. Killbot Goes to the Store isn't buggy, but Killbot is.

And yes, there are ten obtainiable points. The hardest one is for killing the BLUE HUMAN.

Didn't have any problem getting the point for BLUE HUMAN, but have no clue what I'm missing.

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

Baines wrote:

professor_scissors wrote:

The ERROR in the hallway is intentionall. Killbot Goes to the Store isn't buggy, but Killbot is.

And yes, there are ten obtainiable points. The hardest one is for killing the BLUE HUMAN.

Didn't have any problem getting the point for BLUE HUMAN, but have no clue what I'm missing.

ATTACK BED

Mr. Business · Posts: 1530

professor, I did that and I still don't have ten points.

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

Did you kill the FEMALE HUMAN? Certain conditions must be met for her to appear.

Baines · Posts: 906

Your spoiler text was my last point. Since you get another point immediately afterwards, I didn't really think about that option (particularly with the message.)

Nana Komatsu · Posts: 697

Has someone won this yet?

Otherwise I can throw my entry together. I'm gonig to be without a TV, bed or internet connection for the next two weeks in my new apartment and I have nothing better to do than sit around and write IF.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

We're in permanent stall. Go for it.