I hope it’s okay to post this here. I’ve just today released a new game - Gold Brick Simulator - and while it’s not interactive fiction specifically, I have the feeling it might appeal to the same sort of audience. It involves a certain amount of exploration and rewards persistence. Also I’ve always been impressed by the quality of the reviews here and I’m hoping somebody might be tempted to write one!
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A scare chord to rival Uninteractive Fiction’s wah-wah-waaah effect.
Does the paid version actually give you access to everything or is that part of the prank? Maybe telling would ruin the surprise…
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Since we’re into April 2nd now (and it’s somehow become itch.io’s top selling incremental game in the day since release), I think it’s reasonable to reveal that there is actually a full game behind the hugely restrictive demo. I genuinely believe there’s $2.99 worth of material in there, though it really depends how much you enjoy clicking the mouse repeatedly and hunting down achievements.
The high score is also still far more attainable than I expected at this point (and you can see how the leaderboard currently stands even in the demo). When I ran an informal competition for Lovely Pleasant Teatime Simulator the top scores began creeping into positive numbers even while the median score was a rock-bottom -993. At the time of writing, Gold Brick Simulator’s top score is just over 2,000, which should be possible to beat in a single sitting.
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Now I feel like I missed out on my demo! I was playing with muted audio…
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you can see how the leaderboard currently stands even in the demo
I missed that but it’s true! Though people are apparently competing under multiple names …
You can reset the demo through the options menu, though actually I think the sound should replay immediately after you hit “Start” anyway.
I think that’s because people are “claiming” them using a GDevelop account. I’ve set user-entered names to be bracketed by a randomised trio of pipes, hyphens and/or underscores to help prevent duplicates, so I think the ones without those are actual account names. It looks a little odd, but in most cases it seems to be apparent where a single person appears multiple times.
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