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Message: 6189
Author: dm_boozefreek
Date: 26/06/2007
Subject: Re: "Holy Shit!!!" - a critical bug
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel"
>
the
> I continued playtesting "Holy Shit!!!" yesterday and I found out
> game is impossible to complete. This is because the game clock is
set
> at the start to 12.30 pm, which means the player has only 30
minutes
> to complete the game, which is not enough.
original "JSW":
>
> Andrew Broad explains in the text file accompanying his game
> "Goodnite Luddite", concerning the clock code in the
>
but
> > The above code has the bug that the hour after 11am is 12am,
> > because it changes "a" to "p" when it changes "12" to " 1".
> > Furthermore, the game does /not/ end at midnight as advertised,
> > at 1am (after the hour it calls "12pm")."
am,
>
> That is why there are only 30 minutes between 12.30 pm and 1.00
> which is the end of the game - the program goes back to the title
and
> screen at this moment.
>
> Otherwise, I haven't noticed any other problems in "Holy Shit!!!".
> This said, I haven't played the room clusters below the bedroom
> starting with the entrance to Hades yet.
Oops how on earth could I have done that? I'll get on it right away!
>
> Daniel
>
Funnily enough I actually have JSWED open at the min, and am working
on "The Man Who Sold the World" right at this min, which is now
looking good to be finished this year. It's taken over 2 so far so
I'm starting to have the doubts I had about "Bizarre" about it,
although I'm safe in my own knowledge I've done a better job here.
Anyway fixing the clock in "Holy Shit!!!" will give me the chance to
post up the slightly updated version (I only changed one room and
it's an aesthetic tweak more than anything else). I'll get it posted
up on here as soon as poss, and I suppose with the updated room and
fixed clock I'll just gamma release it. For once I'm sticking to my
intentions with a game and that is that there will be no extensions
or SE's of "Holy Shit!!!" EVER!!! :)
Unless of course somebody really wants me to do it? Or fancies doing
it themselves? Otherwise nope!
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