@Happy and @Trywm About the hacking. I guess I didn’t really make it clear enough that the word unscrambling is just a minigame that represents you breaking into the system. The Electronic Systems Interface is an incredibly powerful tool that is only issued to high level agents. It makes it a lot easier for solo agents to do tasks that might be undertaken by a tech support team. It’s the future!
The scrambled word isn’t his actual password. I’ll might try and put a bit more emphasis on how powerful your gadgets are.
Also, you may have noticed, depending on what you did, that Brendan Zale might not be as perfect as he seems.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the praise.
@Batinthehat Thanks! I already answered this question further up the page. I’ll add in romance options if it is a popular request, and if I think it is a natural progression for the story and universe I am trying to write. It would of course, be secondary to the narrative, should I choose to include it.
Hit a slight roadblock recently with life, but hopefully I’ll be back on track and able to offer up an update in the coming weeks. Keep your eyes peeled!
Oh, this was fun. I look forward to this continuing!
Two things I remember that were odd:
I investigated the office and then stayed late to investigate the overloaded panel, and it told me the time was 7:61. Perhaps time works differently in the futuristic different world, but I would think it should be 8:01.
When leaving the office after staying to investigate and letting the custodian check out the panel, I ran into an official looking person in the elevator who inquired who I was, and I pretended I was someone that stayed late to fix the bots and just happened to be wearing a suit when I was called in. Later when I was reviewing evidence before the demo ended, it commented on how I had met Mr. Mason (I think it was Mason) and he didn’t seem connected. I had no idea it was Mr. Mason that I had run into, so maybe this should be more clear? I didn’t ask him who he was but somehow knew later, so it was just a little confusing to me.
Alright, now I find the mystery very interesting. I currently have no idea what is going on, but I find it very interesting that Zale has both of his competitor companies buying from him. There were several encrypted files both on the computer and on paper that I couldn’t work out using my device (something tells me what is written on paper is more important for some reason, since no one uses paper anymore.)
I am highly suspicious of the custodian at the moment. I am not sure that he did it, but I feel he knows something that he hasn’t revealed yet. I am also curious as to what the reporter was doing there last night. Why did Zale go to what sounds like the sketchiest club in town, and is it linked to his use of illegal drugs?
@Saracenar No, I saw that post. What I meant was even given such advanced technology, Zale, if he is a genius with technology, should be aware of the ease his passwords could be broken with and devised a way to stop it, or at the very least make it more difficult. A single rogue agent could steal all his files with ease.
Though I will admit I didn’t think to consider the hints that his character was less than perfect might be an explanation. ~X( Grr, shoulda picked up on that instead of nit-picking all the little details.
Or maybe it’s why he uses paper; he doesn’t trust his tech… :-?
Wolfwriter, I almost had the exact same scenarios as you! Only I told the Janitor that
I was in the PEACE agency investigating the Power Outages. And Trywm, I bet Zale
has his stuff on the Umbra of the moon now. Secretly trying to lead you away from his…
Real Booty. :-S
On the odd points. Yep, those are problems. The way I’ve done the time mechanic isn’t perfect, but it is easily fixable. Same with the second point. I forgot that Mason doesn’t always tell you his name. I’ll fix that as well. Thanks for pointing them out.
I think you’re asking the right questions. Some of them are closer than others.
@Trywm I can’t really comment on that, but I like what you’re thinking.
Thank you guys. I am trying to get a bit of writing/coding in every day, but it is a bit of a slow process. I’m making progress, but like I mentioned earlier due to the complex nature (or at least, planned complex nature) of the game it takes a while to get scenes done.
Just know that I am always working towards the next update and it will be out as soon as I can get it done.
I just want to let everyone know that this is still going. I’d love to do a smaller update just to let everyone know I’m making progress, but I am working on multiple scenes at the same time, and none of them are really ready for release.
It’s probably better this way anyway, because of the nature of the game. How you manage your time in the game is important and I don’t want to funnel everyone into the same scenes.
It’s looking like the next update will be a ways off, but when it is done, it will be a sizeable portion of the game (possibly a quarter of it - we’ll see), allowing for plenty of freedom and choice.
I’m getting something done every day, so don’t worry about the game disappearing.
Unfortunately I had a bit of a lull in productivity over the Christmas period, and since then haven’t had an easy time getting back into writing. In fact, the other day, when I finally managed to sit down and start writing again, there was a power outage, and I lost what progress I had made. Some luck I have.
However, I have no plans to stop working, and I believe that as soon as I can start again, I’ll pick up the momentum to keep going.
But, to be honest, the next update is still a ways away. It will be a very sizeable update however, contributing perhaps a fourth of the whole game (which will cover day 1 of the investigation). I encourage you to keep an on me though. I will try my hardest to get things done as quickly as possible.
Good story, it’s well written and intriguing and left me wanting for more (and I really want to question that reporter) .
Noticed two things, apart from that I didn’t see any mistakes:
“Your car exists from the priority lane and moves towards the opposite edge of the street, near the city walkways.”
Little typo, should be “exits” instead of “exists”.
Upon entering the office of the victim, it tells me the time twice:
"You check the time. 7:20am. You have until 7:45am to search the office, hopefully find as many leads as possible, and get out.
The time is now 7:20am. "
Seems a bit redundant at that point.
Hi @DreamWalker, when exactly did you encounter this error? After selecting the dialogue option “We haven’t had a kidnapping in years. Let alone anything involving someone of this stature.” ? Or elsewhere?
I haven’t been able to reproduce the error. Furthermore, I have not repeated the label 1. In fact in line 89 it isn’t even used.
If you try again, doing the same thing, do you get this error again?
@Saracenar
If you have a blank line before a *label, it has a tendency to produce occasional “label already defined” errors. Getting rid of the blank line should fix the problem.
@Saracenar yea sorry, trying to hack the computer at the mo, refuse to let it defeat me lol but next time il pay more attention where/how i got it, just got the error report and thought it would be best to forward it to you, sorry
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