Pills by Henry Blank
Hey !
Pills is a text-based adventure, otherwise named interactive fiction (I guess). Featuring 12 endings, a party at the beach, a ménage à trois, broken ribs, a roguelike map, procedural level generation (on the borders only), more than 900 lines in my talk file, 3 gotos, and again, a staggering 12 endings.
I'm pretty happy about it. It's my first LD, I went for a strange kind of games, content-driven, and still, it's done ! English isn't my mother tongue, so, sorry if there's oddities :)
Technical stuff :
- based on Curses, so no Windows version anytime soon. Sorry :(
- You'll need perl and the Curses package for it (either through CPAN or your OS). Just run Main.pl.
- Please don't peek in the code. It's rotten to the core.
Pills is a text-based adventure, otherwise named interactive fiction (I guess). Featuring 12 endings, a party at the beach, a ménage à trois, broken ribs, a roguelike map, procedural level generation (on the borders only), more than 900 lines in my talk file, 3 gotos, and again, a staggering 12 endings.
I'm pretty happy about it. It's my first LD, I went for a strange kind of games, content-driven, and still, it's done ! English isn't my mother tongue, so, sorry if there's oddities :)
Technical stuff :
- based on Curses, so no Windows version anytime soon. Sorry :(
- You'll need perl and the Curses package for it (either through CPAN or your OS). Just run Main.pl.
- Please don't peek in the code. It's rotten to the core.
| Any OS with curses (sorry, windowsers) | http://monotropis.me/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LD18_Henry.tar |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-18/?action=preview&uid=2410 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 2% | 139 |
| Overall | 2.00 | 155 |
| Community | 2.17 | 123 |
| Fun | 2.40 | 116 |
| Innovation | 2.80 | 109 |
The theme is about the pills. Instead of taking them and being dumbed down, you can put them to better use (but not every path have this option). I know it's loose, but I sort of lost focus when writing the story...
And sorry about the telnet server, but I'm not gonna be able to make it, I'm behind schedule at work :/
Use of "goto" to jump into a construct is deprecated at main.pl line 318.
Besides, I got it working by installing the perl-curses package on Arch Linux. I like the weirdness of it, but after playing to the end (once), I still don't quite understand who's saying what, nor where the theme comes into play. I might try once more...