Its ok to be at a low point on your cycle - I love road trips but I can’t imagine being in your industry because of the stress involved; so I admire you for being both in the trucking industry and a writer.
I’m actually fleshing out a future character based loosely on you … lol.
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Ow my lol I am very flattered. My job is tough but leaves a lot of time to think, it does limit my writing time but I have great people here, such ad your self, that helps keep me motivated.
Did a lot of clean up tonight and added some new stuff to the opening. I am crawling along with it but hoping to have an update for you by the end of the month.
Had a tad bit of time yesterday so worked on it a bit but the game code and story was not following as I hoped. Just was not in the mood to write so was sluggish at the get go. I did make some progress that was good but still a lot more needs to be done before I can put up an update.
Woot job has changed so now I have a bit of free time to write. Have been working on the emergency backup system. Scraped the original idea as it was far to cumbersome for the player to use. Have streamlined it and a little over halfway through programing it, but proving to be slow. Not a lot of vars involved but really complex combinations that I have to sccount for.
For example if you want to deploy the solar panels but do not have the external senors on there will be no way to tell if it is deploying. If the main generator is offline then you may kill the backup batteries which in turn will turn off the scrubbers and then your carbon monoxide will start to climb or the heat may fail and you freeze to death.
Lots of combos that require a huge amount of testing as I go so working but no time frame when I will have a wip up for input.
Alright I am working on the backup emergency system and it is slowly coming together. Now I need just a few Alpha testers to help nail down problems. It will be in stages, currently working on the internal sensors section. I should only need 5 testers tops for this part of the build. Basicly there will be no story to test at this stage, you will be clicking different options to see if you can break that section. Thanks for any intrest.
*Edit finished the external function and all that is left is the primary function then make sure they all mesh and sound technical enough.
**Edit my pocket of free time is up but nearly completed all the controls Just hope there are a few that might be intrested in testing out the code so far.
I have three audio logs in the game and was wondering if anybody would be willing to lend their voice to the project. I need one male and female for the MC, one female voice for the AI mainframe, and one male voice for the NASA tech. If you have a good mike and a quiet place to record would be the only requirement.
Making good progress on the emergency backup system and have a bit of work still todo for the nav system. Still looking for Alpha testers.
Could you use a computerised voice thing for the main frame? I mean, technically you could probably use it for all voices. That might make things easier for you? You could even just use it as a placeholder to start with?
Also, the thread title keeps confusing me, and making me think that it’s a Spartan-Based game
I put a lot of thought into the voices and will stick with the concept. I have my mammoth project going on but this a big departure from that type of project. It is small, right now on about 30 var, may reach 50 to 60. The play is going to be a lot different as well. The voices will add a lot of depth and some key clues during the game.
I am hoping to have this completed by the time the 5th annual CSComp rolls around, of course sooner then that would be nice. I have been around CoG for a long time now and figure it would be nice to finally publish a project hehe.
Woot finished the last major part of the backup system. Now on to the Nav computer then opening story.
These are the major possible ways you can now die:
You only have three days to begin with.
Loss of oygen
Haul Breach
Freeze to death
Explosion
Spaced
Breach in your space sui
Mother
Of course your going to die, even if you make to the three day mark you may still fail your goals.
Alright I have no Alpha testers, really did not want to put something up that maybe very buggy. With that said I have completed the emergency backup system and it does need testing while I work on the opening story.
Notes
Nav system does not come into play until later so there is no function for this right now
Audio logs are being worked on but for now they are not available.