Day 6 - End (really the end!)

paulpaterson on 2015/08/14 06:55 of The Gödel Sentence

Well I reached the end of my time for this pyweek and the game is done. Not done, done, but kinda done!

I'm reasonably happy, or as happy as you can be at 2AM after a day of work and 7 hours of coding. I had a nasty bug that really put a downer on the last day. I squashed half of it but the other half is lurking there. If you see some weird disjoints in the conversation, like there's a missing line ... then that's the bug. It's not my horrible writing!

There's some other weird things too. Depending on how you play you may run out of dialog right at the end. (yes, I wrote 219 lines of dialog and you can still run out ;) Also it takes like 20s to start on Linux. Just a few seconds on OSX, so I'm not sure why that is.

But overall I'm very happy with it. It has the feel I was going for, at least when I play it.

When you play, it tells you that you can only play the game once. That's the idea. You are supposed to try to experience the game as a single playthrough (12 minutes) because it is a game about using incomplete data to make hard decisions. So playing it multiple times sort of defeats the objective!

Anyway, I'm off on a short trip and back on Sunday, so I could conceivably update this version in case there were show-stoppers. Good luck to everyone. Hope you get your games finished (and not at 2AM!)