Linus' ramblings

[mulehollandaise]

Thanks for your comments! [emote]:)[/emote] And for reviewing all the games too!

[Orihaus]

@Peter Piers

Oh and, “To Burn In Memory” was never meant to be played offline, which will account for your broken experience. The offline version was only made available because the author misunderstood, and at any rate, it doesn’t work properly. As you saw. FWIW.

Thanks for beating me to this! I have to say though, this doesn’t sound like a bug that’s due to offline/online version issues, but it’s a completely game-breaking one regardless. If you could send me the console log/screenshots Linus, that would be super appreciated.

[WesLesley]

@lft

The King and the Crown[spoiler]Neat, a bit arbitrary, solidly implemented, but mostly a diversion.

    For a game that you have to restart multiple times, there are perhaps too many small snippets of text that you have to space through during the opening sequence.

    The error messages were funny, and I liked the premise of a very minimal game world with lots of hidden compartments and features.[/spoiler]

Thanks!

Also, it’s being taken care of.

[lft (Linus Åkesson)]

@aschultz

Ouch on the cookie. You aren’t the first that wondered if it might be a bug. The thing is, I didn’t make it clear…

That’s a -bad- ending. There’s a more fulfilling ending (I think) but it has a few more puzzles and a lot more to do. It’s forced because Alec takes the easy way out and becomes a very nasty person, the sort who can cut down anyone who comes in his way, the sort who can cut down the person he was before he ate the cookie.

Yes, all of that makes sense. The problem is that the bad ending is spoiling the good ending, because you get to see what is behind each of the gatekeepers. When puzzles lock off parts of the gameworld, part of the incentive for solving them is that doing so would reveal something new. The cutter cookie takes away that reward, or at least appears to.

[aschultz]

@lft

@aschultz

Ouch on the cookie. You aren’t the first that wondered if it might be a bug. The thing is, I didn’t make it clear…

That’s a -bad- ending. There’s a more fulfilling ending (I think) but it has a few more puzzles and a lot more to do. It’s forced because Alec takes the easy way out and becomes a very nasty person, the sort who can cut down anyone who comes in his way, the sort who can cut down the person he was before he ate the cookie.

Yes, all of that makes sense. The problem is that the bad ending is spoiling the good ending, because you get to see what is behind each of the gatekeepers. When puzzles lock off parts of the gameworld, part of the incentive for solving them is that doing so would reveal something new. The cutter cookie takes away that reward, or at least appears to.

Hm, good point. I’d argue

[spoiler]“appears to” is more the case. But appearances are extremely important. The problem is that (not really a rant but a double spoiler)

[rant]There’s not much behind the curtain, so to speak. And (in theory) you only realize that if you help certain Compound citizens out–or punk certain others.

I’m adding more stuff to examine post-comp, which you can only do with the “good” ending.[/rant]

But now it looks like I have an additional thing to fix. It seems doable, though.[/spoiler]