My childhood seemed like one adventure after another. My mom was always terrified someone would accuse her of child abuse because of all the bumps, bruises and healed over scabs from previous injuries that were on my body, but to me as a child, they were just the price of having fun and making a mistake, like riding my bike down a steep hill at full speed and then making a sharp turn only for my bike to skid and my bare knee to get cut up as I slid against the gravel on the road before coming to a full stop on my side. I picked up a small scar on my knee from that one, and I learned first hand about the dangers of overly tight turns at high speed, but I was never seriously injured. I used to pull all sorts of fun stunts, and I wouldn’t change a thing, well aside from investing in some knee pads… If anyone has ever read the old Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, that’s exactly what my childhood was like. I still very fondly recall the time I made my own snowman house of horrors…
Well, I have a really, really worse experience. My mother just abandoned me and my father. I suffered bullying in school… A rape attempt… My life just started to get better at 17. So childhood is not something I want to return. Thankfully, my dad is a saint. If not I probably wouldn’t be here alive.
Mara, I’m saddened to hear that, but I’m glad your dad has been there for you. My childhood wasn’t all rainbows and unicorns either however. As the class runt I constantly had to deal with bullies trying to push me around, beat me up, and/or even steal my lunch money. There’s also very good reason why I never talk about my own father. I don’t mean to minimize your own tragedies, but there are worse things than being abandoned… (For me it’s my mother who is the saint.) Bad stuff happens, and I still have the emotional scars from the bad parts. Nevertheless there was a lot of good too. And it’s the good memories that I choose to carry with me into the rest of my life. I can’t change the past, but I don’t want it weighing down my future, and after having spent sufficient time dealing with the repercussions of those events, I’ve learned to move on.
So when I say it would be incredible to be able to go through childhood again with what I know now, I’m leaving unsaid that this implies that the bad stuff wouldn’t happen the second time around, either because I now know how to avoid it, or because the causes of the bad stuff simply aren’t in my childhood for the second go around…
Exactly I could understand that. But I just never felt the glamour of the childhood memories. I don’t like children either. Even if I am good with kids. And just childhood is a boring stuff It’s meaningful while you are a infant in an infant mind. This story goes great so far but if this keep going as a children I would be grow tired and boring really.
I have zero interest in babies, but once they hit around two and they start getting mischievous I think they’re great fun. It’s fun to engage their little minds and spark their vivid imaginations. Hearing them shriek with joy as I toss them up into the air is also lots of fun, even as other adults look on with concern. I do like children, particularly the bright adventurous ones who remind me of myself. Nevertheless I like giving them back to their parents once I’ve had enough even more. They can be exhausting, so I prefer them in small measured doses, an option their real parents don’t get. lol.
I think this would be a good compromise. I’m going to spend the next part still in childhood, but it should speed up after that. And there’s still a lot more to do as a twelve year old than a 5 year old. [quote=“idonotlikeusernames, post:243, topic:14723”]
Also that map is awesome.
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So in the stat screen, it still.says you’re five after your sixth birthday. Only thing I’ve seen out of place. Honestly love it so far. I was a little confused at first with the time skips but I think that’s intended right? Also, you can make stats secret, aka not show up in the stats screen unless other variable says so. I don’t remember how to code it but it should be in the coding tutorial if it’s something you want to do.
Ohhh, thanks. I just moved things around, I must have missed that.
I’m keeping the secret stat in the stat screen for now Some of my friends use the link to test it for me, and they need to see it in able to tell me if something is wrong. But thank you for your advice! And I’m glad you liked it!
@iris: Currently there are six gosub_scene commands in the code, one of them is a gosub_scene age, while the other five are gosub_scene personality. I don’t see a personality.txt file in your game however, and that explains why those are dropping a file not found error, but I do see a personality label inside of parttwo.txt. The way to access that is to use: gosub_scene parttwo personality from outside of parttwo.txt (three of five occurrences), and gosub personality from within parttwo (two of five occurences). As for the other, I don’t see an age.txt currently either. So that’s why it’s failing to find a file for that one as well. Neither do I see any blocks of code labeled age in the game files.
@P_Tigras Thanks for your help! I still find it very odd that there is an error, though. I’ve been using gosub_scene since your first told me about it, and it only just started to bug out. There’s a personality.txt and an age.txt in my folder, and it worked just fine when I play it from my files.
I decided just to go back to a regular gosub at the bottom of the scenes for now so that people can play it. I’ll have to play around with it to see if I can figure out why it doesn’t work in the link…
edit ;; OH I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT. Forgive me if the link is buggy for the next half an hour
edit;; Yeah, I’m a giant dork. I forgot to compile the game with age.txt and personality.txt last time I updated the game. Should be fixed.
Everything you are going through is a learning experience for me too. (if you let your errors be known to us )
For example, I might have forgotten to recompile my own WiP if you had not done this here. (still a danger because my progress is slower than a snail’s in a wind-storm)
Besides compile, are there other must-do things when updating?
I do like children, particularly the bright adventurous ones who remind me of myself. Nevertheless I like giving them back to their parents once I’ve had enough even more. They can be exhausting, so I prefer them in small measured doses, an option their real parents don’t get. lol.
Some of my friends use the link to test it for me, and they need to see it in able to tell me if something is wrong. But thank you for your advice! And I’m glad you liked it!
Those are my gosubs_files. They work on my computer, but not in the demo. I’ll… figure it out when I wake up lol.
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