I decided what I wanted to do pretty quickly, which I’m keeping kinda secretish for the nonce because the narrative whammy would be ruined otherwise.

The plan I ended up settling on has left me setting up a simulation game… from scratch, since I had no base code. So it’s going to be text based, no graphics, using the Python console.

But it will have music! 😀 I can sing, by golly, and Audacity makes it easy to record things. Perfect quality? No. A nice touch? Yes. Now I just need to figure out how to make the music loop using Pyglet.

As far as how the game is coming along: quite nicely, all things considered. I just hit a stumbling block and am too tired to figure out where I went wrong, so it is time to sleep. But the simulation building progresses, and I have some of the commands implemented.

This simulation isn’t real time, btw — you set it up, look at the results, and then make a decision about how to proceed. Run the simulation again? Make your final decision? Then more story.

Edit: Oh! And I know exactly how I will fit goats (maybe just one goat) into the game.

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