{"author_link":"\/author\/henry-blank\/","author_name":"Henry Blank","author_uid":"2410","comments":[{"author_name":"skintkingle","author_uid":"1579","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 3:43am","epoch":1282534680,"text":"i wont vote as im on windows but you really have stabbed yourself in the foot by not having it on windows."},{"author_name":"Henry Blank","author_uid":"2410","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 4:41am","epoch":1282538160,"text":"I know... But until a friend of mine tried to beta-test it, I thought Curses was portable. Dumb mistake."},{"author_name":"Jamin","author_uid":"2356","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1282596900,"text":"I might be able to host the binary for people to play via a PuTTY session to a server... but first, I really want to know how the theme applies."},{"author_name":"Henry Blank","author_uid":"2410","time":"Aug 24, 2010 @ 4:24am","epoch":1282623540,"text":"Sam Rodgers &gt; Thanks, but I'm already working on it. It should be up (intermittently) soon, by telnet, once I get it to run properly.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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..."},{"author_name":"NiallM","author_uid":"785","time":"Aug 29, 2010 @ 6:37am","epoch":1283063520,"text":"Just played this on my netbook (ubuntu).  It's pretty good.  The ascii graphics are effective and the story's well-told.  I got endings 8 and 1 (which was seriously creepy btw) on my two playthroughs."},{"author_name":"pekuja","author_uid":"110","time":"Aug 29, 2010 @ 2:55pm","epoch":1283093400,"text":"I like the conversation system. At first I wasn't sure what was going on, but I think I got the idea by the end, and then I played through it a couple more times. I couldn't figure out how to really affect the outcome though. For example, I expected taking or not taking the meds would have a significant effect on the ending, but I managed to get ending 10 on two tries where I did or didn't take them. I'm probably missing some significant options, but I was only able to get ending 10 and ending 11."},{"author_name":"Henry Blank","author_uid":"2410","time":"Aug 30, 2010 @ 9:41am","epoch":1283160960,"text":"All the endings are determined on the beach, not before. Branching earlier would have been too long to make...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And sorry about the telnet server, but I'm not gonna be able to make it, I'm behind schedule at work :\/"},{"author_name":"stqn","author_uid":"2181","time":"Sep 3, 2010 @ 10:22am","epoch":1283509020,"text":"Got this error at one point:\r<br\/>Use of &quot;goto&quot; to jump into a construct is deprecated at main.pl line 318.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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..."}],"images":["ld18\/2410-2e50a1d469721c14d3b03972982cfc00.jpg","ld18\/2410-570ba0ceadb0ddbd4090f617cb4acaa5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/monotropis.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LD18_Henry.tar","text":"Any OS with curses (sorry, windowsers)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33600","g_author":"2410","g_event":"LD18","g_eventkey":"4","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33630","g_title":"Pills","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"155","g_commentcount":"8","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/22150\/2410-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/22150\/2410-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Hey !\r\n\r\nPills is a text-based adventure, otherwise named interactive fiction (I guess). Featuring 12 endings, a party at the beach, a m\u00c3\u00a9nage \u00c3\u00a0 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.\r\n\r\nI'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 :)\r\n\r\nTechnical stuff : \r\n- based on Curses, so no Windows version anytime soon. Sorry :(\r\n- You'll need perl and the Curses package for it (either through CPAN or your OS). Just run Main.pl.\r\n- Please don't peek in the code. It's rotten to the core.<\/p>","title":"Pills"}