Game in a Week #1: The Ill-Timed Petition Damsel
So it’s been a couple days since I finished Petition Damsel and posted it on the site (For the few folks who have been having troubles with the Win32 binary package; I’m pretty sure that version 1.0.1.1 has finally fixed the “incorrect configuration” problem). I’ve had some time away from Damsel, I’ve played partway through…
Phew. Well, it’s three hours before the deadline, and I’ve finally finished. So what are you waiting for? Petition Damsel is over there in the righthand column, under ‘Get Games’. There are Win32 and OSX builds right now. Once I’ve had some sleep, I’ll upload a snapshot of the source code so that Linux and…
Three hours on, here’s where I’m at: Fixed a bunch of gameplay bugs, a few of them causing spectacular crashes (but these were all the usual corner-cases where you expect to find crashes.. respawning after dying while in the middle of using a petition was one of these, for example). Tuned time bonuses so that…
Not going to spend too much time writing here, but.. this game was definitely overcomplicated for what I can comfortably design and build in a week. With only twelve hours to go, I finally have my first fully playable version of Damsel with all gameplay elements in place. Stuff remaining to do, in approximate order…
I have serious trouble typing the word “petition” at speed. It keeps coming out as “peitition”. Writing it on paper isn’t a problem. Investigating other words with repeated sound patterns, I found that “Banana” reliably comes out as “Banena”, and “Pinocchio” as “Pinocchiao”. The only conclusion I can draw from this experiment is that my…