Monday, March 30, 2009

What I’ve been up to…

Since I am currently studying computer science, I have undertaken a small pet project related to Blognomic.  Some will probably remember my first dynasty (the RPG dynasty) and how it ended rather abruptly.  Well, I am currently working on an adaptation of the First Dynasty of Yoda as a text adventure.

As of right now, I only have the “First Test”, but I am almost finished with the game mechanics (attacking, equiping items, etc.), so hopefully I should be able to start working on the actual story soon.

If anyone here would like to help test what I have so far, the help would be greatly appreciated.  I am especially looking at whether the puzzles are too difficult or too easy.  If you are interested, you can download the file here.  The file is a .z8 file, which means you will need some kind of z-machine (e.g. Windows Frotz) in order to play it.  You should be able to easily find a free download on the internet.  Let me know if you have any problems finding a z-machine.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.  You can pm me or just comment to this post if you have any questions or comments.

posted by Yoda at 30 Mar 2009 19:51:01 UTC Comments (11)

Comments

Yoda:

30-03-2009 20:13:24 UTC

To get emails…

Kevan: he/him

30-03-2009 20:32:41 UTC

Nice. I occasionally rattle at people that it’d be good to try an Inform-based Nomic (like a less-automated Perlnomic), but there’s never quite enough people in the middle bit of the Venn diagram.

The puzzle box has me stumped, and the candles seem a bit less interactive than they maybe should be (“candle” and “candlestick(s)” aren’t recognised as nouns), but I wasn’t around for the original dynasty, so maybe I’m missing an obvious reference here.

Yoda:

30-03-2009 20:37:08 UTC

Actually, the puzzle room was not in the original dynasty.  That was added.

As for the candles, simply the plural “candles” should work.

Yoda:

30-03-2009 20:38:07 UTC

Like I said, though, I’m really just testing the difficulty of the puzzles.

Yoda:

30-03-2009 20:40:37 UTC

And, yes, I think an Inform-based nomic would be a great idea.  In messing around with Inform, I actually had that same thought.

Yoda:

30-03-2009 21:38:45 UTC

I have just updated the file to fix the candle problem.

arthexis: he/him

31-03-2009 06:25:03 UTC

I’ve been having to do a javascript (using ajax for good measure) text adventure myself…

Klisz:

31-03-2009 19:43:44 UTC

I once made a short text adventure based on the First Metadynasty of Rodlen.

Also, is this made in I7 or I6?

Klisz:

31-03-2009 21:20:52 UTC

I’m stuck on the first puzzle. I know what to do (I need to ask someone to open the door), but I’m stuck in Guess-The-Verb.

Yoda:

31-03-2009 22:05:01 UTC

This was made using I7.

Yoda:

01-04-2009 21:59:18 UTC

Just made another major update.  The puzzle room should now be quite a bit easier.