It’s not much of a screenshot, but I’m still quite pleased. (Although I’ve had to jump through some frightening hoops to get it to display in the new version of WordPress. Looking forward to them fixing this new “insert media” interface). This is showing a replay of the events of the evening. The little bar…
I just spent the last five minutes tracking down a bug which resulted in a fresh corpse occasionally (about one time in three) wandering into another room after being killed. Algorithmically generated content can be really tricky to get right, even when it’s as simple as this! :)
It’s really weird, sitting here and writing code for simulating what’s essentially a rather old-fashioned ideal of an Agatha Christie-style dinner party murder mystery, while listening to an old radio show “Night Watch”, which is basically a 1950s version of “Cops”, on the radio.. in this episode, the police were interrogating a murder suspect. (Who…
Apparently somebody has chosen to spoof my e-mail address to send spam. How do I know this? Well, my mailbox is bulging with “delivery failure” notifications; about a dozen in the last hour, and I’d be surprised if the rate doesn’t increase overnight. Not really what I wanted to be dealing with when I’m under…
Well, the code’s finally to the point where the game can actually randomly generate a murder timeline. As it turns out, Bill killed Sam at approximately 12:15 AM, in the bathroom. Unsurprisingly, he used the Nondescript Murder Weapon(tm) to perform the dastardly deed. (When oh when will they learn that Nondescript Murder Weapons can be…