Liked the combination of 3D with text adventure. One suggestion -- if parser only has a few choices for me, go ahead and make the appropriate choice, i.e. shouldn't have to do "go[space]ki[tab]", but "g[o ]k[itchen]". You already know what the valid choices are, so don't make user jump through hoops...
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SLUDGE FICTION's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Entertainment - how enjoyable is it? | #8 | 3.462 | 3.462 |
| Overall | #10 | 3.359 | 3.359 |
| Creativity - how original is the idea? | #14 | 3.462 | 3.462 |
| Presentation - how does it look/feel? | #17 | 3.154 | 3.154 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The tools are mentioned briefly in the game description and elaborated on a bit in the readme.
Specifically:
- Ruckus 3D model designer and visualiser by Cliff L. Biffle: https://docs.racket-lang.org/ruckus/Getting_Your_Ruckus_On.html
- Here are all the 3D models I created: https://github.com/cloudrac3r/sludge/tree/main/sludge-game/design
- Declarative GUIs by Bogdan Popa: https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui-easy/index.html
- All the game data is in here: https://github.com/cloudrac3r/sludge/blob/main/sludge-game/room.rkt
- Rooms are places with a distinct 3D model and set of commands
- Cutscenes control all text display and text advancing. They’re code, so they can also pause the text log and call out to something that isn’t text, like setting flags or opening the totally legit email program in a new window.
- And most of the engine is in here: https://github.com/cloudrac3r/sludge/blob/main/sludge-game/main.rkt This is jam quality programming, so don’t look too deep into the main.rkt file ;)
Would you mind sharing the OS and specs of the computer you were using that cut the living room in half?
332 days ago(+1)
That’s the hazard of bed isn’t it? Bed always seems to end what I’m doing if I get too tempted by it.
The game takes 45 seconds instead of 45 minutes to set up if you use the prebuilt binary.
Try it again and resist the temptation of bed - see where you get to. Bed is the only “bad ending”. :)
McCLIM has included DREI (drei replaces eine's inheritor) which is a bunch of editor-oriented stuff analogous to the CADR's ZWEI (zwei wasn't eine?) and EINE (???). The editor has powerful do-what-I-mean ish autocomplete. You start in an interactor pane powered by drei by default. McCLIM facts! Go ask daniel about it ;p.
It didn't seem like a lag thing (why would clicking the cursor to the start of the line appear to fix it instantly)
332 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much for publishing that video and keeping me company during a boring day of work.
The reason it needed to download so many packages for you is because you installed racket-minimal from the distribution, which basically just has the language and compiler but no standard library. So when you wanted to install the dependencies of my game, it had to first download and install the entire standard library, one file at a time. That’s why it was downloading r5rs, r6rs, etc. Normally that stuff is included by default when you install racket from the distribution, but I guess nobody packaged it for your BSD.
And then being at the antipodes(?) seems to have made the download speed very sad.
If you create a video or livestream of you playing the rest of the game, I’d be very happy to watch.
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