I've never drawn a pictoral board in my life (not just a good one--any one, at all,) and I've done pretty well in these sorts of things before. It all comes down to how well you manage to impress the judges. Most of them will understand as long as your game is fun!
Anyway, I'm done now. 32 boards in the first world, 16 boards in the second world. The first world is 295 KB uncompressed, the second is 153. Both of together in a .zip clock in at 27.8 KB. Holy shit. Do you have any idea how panicky I was when I first started hitting that too-big crash size limit? Still, I made it, and I humbly submit my game to you. :D
"You're alive," said the maker, and smiled at the aardvark.
<Kjorteo> "yiff"
<gbelo> Wanna yiff.
<Kjorteo> yes
<gbelo> No no no.
Kjorteo wrote:I'm going to try to split this into two worlds now. You can do that, right?
Of course. Thanks for submitting.
Shadow Mage wrote:If we have pictorial boards, will it matter to much how they look, as long as they get the message across and don't look too horrific?
Quality of graphics will be a major part of the judges' assessments, so yes.
Went through everything and made some major fixes. That's it. I am done. Done, done. If there are any more bugs I still haven't caught, then oh well, because that was pretty thorough.
This was a fun game to make, and up-to-date status reports from everyone in this thread made this a particularly enjoyable contest overall. Good luck to all participants, and huge thanks to everyone involved.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have "holy shit I'll never sleep again" amounts of weaving to do thanks to all this.
"You're alive," said the maker, and smiled at the aardvark.
<Kjorteo> "yiff"
<gbelo> Wanna yiff.
<Kjorteo> yes
<gbelo> No no no.
My game crashed. And I had to make some snipits. Including downgrading it to the size of a demo. But now that its fixed, I'll just submit my demo for judging. And go to bed. I've got school in the morning, and I've missed alot of it. So when I get some spare time after the contest, I'll fix my game up to include what was taken out, in a manner that will not make it crash.
Meh, can't beleive how little I come to these forums now.
I got a feeling I'm not going to get my game finished, mainly because I couldn't think of a story and I started in the last 14 hours of the compo, so far I got 3 art boards and an enemy, not one piece of the story is written and I'm going to bed.
Ugh, what's the limit on world sizes? I just put the final boards on mine, and it's only 167K, but ZZT has started going a little weird on me.
And by "a little weird," I mean I figured out how to make it crash consistently, and by "ugh," I mean "Oh god oh god oh god don't do this to me now stupid ZZT."
i've personally never had problems with zzt on anything below 350kb, but some people report having crashes with files over about 250kb. generally, that's the accepted limit...
he looked upon the world and saw it was still depraved
This weekend was not right for me. :( Actually any weekend isn't. Thanks to work, I had 3 hours of ZZTing each day. This means a total of 12 hours was spent on the game. :( It still ain't finished. I'm gonna go finalise it. (It sucks btw, but aw well.)
[size=84:2xnkfrww]"I have a joke....there is a chair and the chair a walk...with a shoes. LALALALALA...the chair is a walking!"
Zenith Nadir wrote:i've personally never had problems with zzt on anything below 350kb, but some people report having crashes with files over about 250kb. generally, that's the accepted limit...
Fred 2 seems to always crash if you have a billion zzt games in the folder, but if you give it its own copy of zzt it seems to work fine.
I watched some Hitchcock movies over the weekend and should have made a ZZTer based version of Psycho or Rope or And Then There Were None which I considered doing as a normal game awhile ago, but I didn't want to do a big cinema game.
i really, really need to watch more hitchcock films.
the only one i ever saw was THE BIRDS. it was the most awesome shit ever. i always say i'm going to try to see more but i never do. this is going to be one of those times, i fear.
he looked upon the world and saw it was still depraved
Still, I made it, and I humbly submit my game to you. :D
