Re: The Sphere - a pipmak game made in less than two weeks

[excentri <car...@gm...>]

Hello Christian!

I'm glad you like it. :)

Of course you can use it in your showcase page. That would be great!

Yes, you completed the game. No happy ending here. :D

I know the bugs and irritating problems you mentioned. We would have
polished the game some more if we had the time. But we only had two weeks to
make it as complete as we could.

I'm really impressed that you really completed the game. There is much lack
of feedback and you have to guess your way to the end, but you managed to
understand it anyway. Hats off! :)

As for the saving, I haven't even tested to save the game myself. The game
is very short and we didn't thought it was necessary to save.

We really like 360 panorama games and we chose to use pipmak cause it was so
easy to learn. None of us have any advanced programming or scripting skills
but we did the best we could.

It's possible that we're going to polish the game further if we find some
free time.


Christian Walther wrote:
> 
> Hello excentri!
> 
> Wow - I'm blown away! This is awesome. This must be the most  
> professional completed game I have seen in Pipmak to date. It has a  
> story, great graphics, animation, sound, music, cursors, everything -  
> and all done in two weeks. Hats off! I'm really impressed by what you  
> have been able to achieve using Pipmak's limited capabilities.
> 
> I would like to feature this on the Showcase page
> (http://pipmak.sourceforge.net/showcase.php 
> ). May I?
> 
> I think I have completed the game (if completion means dying :)), but  
> I haven't looked at the code yet. A few things that caught my  
> attention (I assume you're aware of most of them and taking care of  
> them just didn't fit into the two weeks):
> 
> (SPOILER ALERT: those who haven't completed the game, stop reading  
> here.)
> 
> - I found it a bit irritating to be unable to walk directly from one  
> corner of the room to the next, without going back to the center.
> 
> - I was quite confused by some things that show a clickable cursor,  
> but don't appear to do anything when clicked - I was never quite sure  
> if that was supposed to happen or if it was a bug that would  
> potentially preclude me from making progress: The control panel on the  
> bed door (is that a bed?) and the "Games" button in the computer.
> 
> - I was going to count the marked floor tile on the "Sphere  
> Blueprints" screen in the computer under the same category, but in  
> hindsight I have empirically determined that it actually does  
> something. Perhaps a short sound or some other subtle kind of feedback  
> would make that more obvious?
> 
> - I spent quite some time unsuccessfully trying to click (or stand) on  
> the special floor tile after activating it in the computer, until I  
> discovered that it only has a hotspot on its upper half. Is there a  
> reason for not covering the whole tile with the hotspot?
> 
> - When walking away from the opened floor tile with the lever in the  
> "open" position, it still appears in the "closed" position from the  
> other nodes.
> 
> - The "Sphere Blueprints" screen shows some kind of control panel in  
> the bathroom next to the door that isn't actually there in reality. Is  
> that an oversight or a deliberate red herring?
> 
> - You should override the global keydown handler to stop the annoying  
> "unused key 97 pressed" warnings and prevent users from accidentally  
> showing hotspots, opening the Lua command line, or doing other  
> potentially spoilery or dangerous things.
> 
> - There is no obvious way to quit in mid-game, other than to discover  
> the Q or esc keys. (And it occurs to me that there should be a way of  
> having Pipmak prompt you to save your game before quitting.)
> 
> - When loading a saved game, the music does not resume, and after  
> that, approaching the door to space after having unlocked it produces  
> a Lua error related to it.
> 
> 
> I hope you had fun using Pipmak, and if you have anything to say about  
> your experience with it, I'd love to hear it!
> 
>   -Christian
> 
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