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Entry: SANTAPUNK 2076

A topic by Gymcrash created Dec 22, 2020 Views: 185 Replies: 10
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Submitted

It's a little different from the more traditional entries thus far, but I hope you'll enjoy playing it. It's a short story, so play time will probably range from 10 minutes to half an hour, depending upon the routes you take and how much of a completionist you are in order to figure out how to get the "S RANK".


Submitted

Huzzah! Would you like a transcript of play? 

Submitted

Hey Errol, thanks for the kind offer. I would simply appreciate the bugs you might come across!

Submitted

Hi, Gymcrash!
I noticed a couple of things.
Two "withs" in a description.
And two other questions I have which may be spoilers.

Otherwise, it's pretty adorable! ^_^ Is there a way to get A+?

Submitted

Thanks Errol! Very appreciated. You can get an S rank, but not an A+.


Getting an S rank, to be fair, is very subjective (rather than objective) to my whims! So it involves doing and not doing certain things!

Also, I've been getting feedback from non-text-adventure players and younger kids, telling me theyre finding it too hard (Hmmmm...) so i've had to 'consolise' it by adding a reminder prompt every 5 turns!

Submitted

Ah, yes, I should have figured it would have been an S rank.

Is there a way to get you feedback? I found a few things. :D

And yes, I've been getting a lot of feedback from non-text-adventure players, as well as text-adventure players too! Ha ha ha.

Text-adventure players find my puzzles too hard.
Non-text-adventure players (but puzzlers) don't understand why there are things like inventory.

I think I tried to cater to both, but didn't really succeed. Ah well. Lots of learning to be done.

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You can leave a comment here I think, even regarding spoilery things - It should be ok. Thanks Errol!


And I think I'm going to give up sending this game to people who have never played adventure games and don't want to understand!

Submitted

Cool!

  • When I picked up the UNIKey, I noticed you can see the unikey in the car still
  • Not a bug, but I tried to turn on the cleaner after I picked it up, but I couldn't. I thought I could get a higher ranking if I cleaned the apartment

Other than that, it was pretty smooth sailing. :)

Submitted

Ooh, I wonder how the first bullet point came to be - must be a rogue gap in the logic.

Second bullet point - nice thought process there, but it always takes a leap :-)

Submitted

AH! I left some test/debug code in that recreates the key after you use it....DUHHHHH

Submitted

Ha ha, no worries. I have updated my game over 10 times with bug fixes. ^_^ My beta testers were invaluable.