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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I beat attack of the yeti robot zombies on my second try. I probably could have done it on my first, but I was attempting to beat it without shooting anything which caused me to do a few stupid things and I got eaten by a Yeti Robot Zombie.

It's pretty good and fun, but it's riddled with little errors ("off" instead of "of" and the like). I would recommend it to new players as well as 9:05.

Also, dess, am I missing something on robot gardening? It seems like there's not too much I can do, and I can't water anything or fix the reason I can't water anything. Is that the point, or am I missing something?
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Ok, I'm attempting to download Little Falls, but can't seem to do so. The site is here, but all the links lead me to foreign language nonsense. Any help?

http://www.terradif.net/mc/little-falls/ltf-gamepage/
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

The solution to Robot Gardening is decidedly more obtuse than it should be, because it's a simple and great idea. Basically, you have to be standing in a certain spot to do something you'd think you would be able to do from any area in the game.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, you see, I can't figure out if or when I'm interacting with anything or if there's even a solution at all ;___;
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

you aren't looking hard enough, no doubt
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

It's not IF as such, but if you find it, Jordan Mechner's The Last Express is essential gaming. Set on the Orient Express, it can afford to play itself in real-time and involves all sorts of intriguing characters. The former is one of gaming's biggest conundrums done right, and works simply because it's set in a small area, the latter is, well, simply something we should see more of, really.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Dess needs to drop some Robot Gardening hints.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:00 am Post subject:

i used my free trial of gametap just to play last express. it's two weeks, and apparently when you try to quit they'll offer you another week. i didn't take it. you have to quit by phone, which is the annoying part.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Hey, this is pretty awesome. Even if I never will play Adventure, I know some of you kids get a kick out of this stuff.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:10 pm Post subject:

i've been in indiana, asshole. that said, it's a really subtle puzzle, and i'm not sure i could give hints without spoiling it.
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Crazy Bacon Lips · . Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 88 Location: Ol' Virginny

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Crazy Bacon Lips · . Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 88 Location: Ol' Virginny

Hey, I just noticed that I have a bunch of hearts.

Yeah!

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:22 am Post subject:

that means that we love you!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Put it this way, when you were trying to look ground, look grass and look floor, you were looking the wrong way.

I think everyone got stuck on this when it came out, but the few people who worked it out without hints felt incredibly proud of themselves.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Divvy.

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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Hey, can we talk about more adventure games here? I'm wondering if it's worth my while to purchase The Blackwell Legacy. The demo holds promise and I like the university suicides premise, but has anyone played it in full?
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I can't talk much about Adventure games, let alone specific new ones, but I'll bring up that I don't like graphic based adventure games anywhere near as much as I'm enjoying IF. Graphical Adventure games take all the discriptions and flexability which comes with it out of the Adventure. Something is only as good as you--or someone else--can draw it. On top of that I end up spending quite a bit of time pixel hunting (clicking on everything just to see what I can interact with). These things have led me away from GA and something that IF has sparked in me again.

Both of these things I have thought were dead for years. Games like Hotel Dusk and Trace Memory reminded me that I really don't like GA games, but the stuff I've been trying here reminds me about the power of imagination.

Sorry, I'm not helpful here at all, I know.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

I'm currently working on conciously generic text adventure that should last around a minute or two from start to finish, but I have to shamefully admit that I have very little experience in the genre. Can someone here give me a good list of verbs that text adventures tend to recognize?

Is anyone interested in coming up with something for me so that I don't have to think?

-Wes
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject:

The Soviet Onion · . Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Posts: 41

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die

dessgeega · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I wrote a game in Inform 7 and it was fucking ridiculous. It was just a room with two things in it, a bloke called Keith and a door. When I ran it I found that you could pick up Keith and the door.

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:19 am Post subject:

sawtooth · . Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 419

you can make fighting games in anything Sad

my list of favorite fighting games:

1. Super Smash Bros Melee
2. Super Smash Bros
3. A Technically Impressive Hypercard Stack about Fencing
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Eleanor and I played Robot Gardening, Dess, and she found it really annoying. It's mainly because you cant LOOK AT SKY, LOOK AT GRASS from wherever you are in the game. It really needs some polishing.

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:46 am Post subject:

i'm sure you're right. i made it in a weekend, as my first ever piece of interactive fiction, for a small, friendly competition. i'm reluctant to polish it because i'm sure it would take a huge amount of work to bring the game up to my standards, and i don't have the time to invest in that kind of undertaking right now.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636