If the original game loader was built with Ozmoo, you can just:
1. Build your own disk image using Ozmoo Online, without a loader 2. Rename the file "story" on your disk image to whatever the bigger file on the official Ghosts disk is called 3. Copy the loader file (the first PRG file on the original Ghosts disk) to your disk image 4. Make sure the loader file is the first file in the directory of your disk image.
If you're on Windows, you can use DirMaster to do step 2,3,4.
I'm thinking a lot can be done with subtle things, like you notice a man walking across the street wearing a suit and socks, but no shoes. Follow him to unveil a mystery. Did someone force him to go out without his shoes? Is he acting out of fear? And once you figure out what's wrong, how can you help?
Wohoo, we got nine submissions - absolutely awesome!
Now it's time for voting. Please read up on rules (under "Voting") and recommendations (under "Recommendations") for judges on the main jam page. You will find the voting link under "Voting".
The rules require contestants to provide the game in Z-code format.
We are aware of the current problems with borogove.
If you just need a place to host your Z-code file for the judging period so you can point Parchment to it, drop me a mail (see organizer's mail address on jam page) and I can provide a solution.
- Incredibly stressful, and hard to control with joystick. This game would be a lot better with the option of keyboard steering, preferrable with 8 keys + fire.
If you feel like you don't remember the basics, maybe go through the tutorials linked on the homepage.
If you look at your old code and there are just a lot of properties, attributes and whatnot that you're not sure what they do, look them up in the quickref document.
I wish there was a comprehensive manual that explains PunyInform from the ground up, without relying heavily on the Inform 6 documentation, but unfortunately we're not there yet.
These games use an Infocom-type parser that tries to parse full english commands, e.g. "get all the books but the blue one", "look at the door", "put all in the box", "open the box then enter it". You can skip articles, but not prepositions.
Welcome participants and possible participants! It brings us great joy to see there's so much interest in this jam.
There's still a month to go before the jam starts. If you're planning on writing a game for the jam, and you're not currently an expert PunyInform developer, we recommend you start learning the language and library right away. It's a powerful system and the better you know it, the better your chances of making your game great. Also, it's fun!
We have just added a prize to the prize pool: A new, signed paperback copy of the book Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort.
There are two traditions to this - This game is really modelled after Infocom's games, which always used 'restore', while a lot of other text adventures used 'load'. I should perhaps add instructions on common commands to the game.
When building for C128, D71 disk image is the default target, but D64 and D81 are fully supported as well. And regardless of this, the interpreter uses 100+ KB of RAM for game data, and it can use an REU if you have one. Also note that the game starts on the screen (40 col or 80 col) that is active when you type RUN.
electrotrains, would you mind making your game page public now? That would be the simplest solution, as all other submitted games have now been made public.
Please note that your game has been compiled with DEBUG mode enabled (you can tell because it says it uses "PunyInform v2.4 D" where D is for DEBUG, This means player have access to debug commands, essentially allowing them to cheat to some extent. Compile the game without the -D switch to get a non-debug build.
If you want to stick with v2.3 for your jam entry, do so! If you want to upgrade to v2.4, make sure you read the release notes first. In particular, there's a section for things in the new release which may force you to make changes to your code as you upgrade, just to keep your game working the same.
