Today I added the cybernetic choice scene. Alongside your robot you can also buy one of 2 different cybernetic implants (if you make cybernetics legal, that is).
Other recent updates:
-Alternate and rewritten scenes for Year 2 and 3, if you tell the public early.
-election results introducing the new President/PM
-continuity changes - less dead characters will reappear now (testing will be needed to find others!)
Preparations for name changes depending on your nationality.
Year 26 ending (if you donât launch a spaceship in timeâŚ)
Tomorrow: unveiling of new president/PM and introduction to the team for Sally Albright.
There are still 8-10 unfinished areas I need to do, as well as one very large part. Progress is good and Iâm enjoying having the time to write.
Quick question: if you had a cybernetic surgery and wanted to advertise, what slogan would you use on posters? I plan to steal the best ideas you come up with!
(A New Lease On Life). (Choose your edge. Lose your limits) (The future is up ahead, will you step up?) (do you want to be a cool kid? yes! then tell your dad to buy you the new cybernetic genitalia, kiddo )
âRemove humanityâs shackles, ascend to a new life.â
Or
[Image of a successful person]âThey became a successful athlete! Animals donât bite them anymore! People flock to them! You too can be like this person with our cybernetic enhancements! Call this number to receive a 10% discount on your next purchase! 1-800-NO-BAMBOOZLE!â
The new president has been added and cosmetic and continuity changes made to year 13 (I had the Russians as a trade partner when the lore of the game had them desert the planet 2 years earlier!)
Iâve discovered, but not yet corrected, an annoying bug that takes you back to the start of year 1 seemingly randomly. Tomorrow will be tracking that down, as well as a rewrite for joining the UN for when you tell the public early about the asteroid.
Regarding the cybernetics question, I have used ideas from @Logan3000x and @cyanide - thank you to everyone for replying and giving your input!
Today has been very productive. Lots of writing added and more loose ends tied up. I have good writing time tomorrow as well. Long may it continue!
QUESTION:
Iâve been thinking about how to do the spaceship parts of the game. Once you launch your spaceship, the game will move to being on a spaceship. Depending on what you have done on Earth, there will be 10 different branched stories with upto 3 of them being played in 1 playthrough⌠In total, the spaceship part will be around 130k words, but 1 playthrough will be just 20-30k words. As such, I see three options:
A. Have the spaceship as the end to CK62e: Evacuation - the current plan.
B. Have the spaceship be the introduction for CK62e: Old Home (the name for the third game of the series)
C. Have the spaceship section as a separate game entirely, changing the trilogy into a quadrilogy (or whatever the word for 4 is!)
D. Another option would be to end Evacuation part way through the spaceship section⌠(just thinking of this as I write now).
So 4 choices. What do you all think? How should the series be broken up?
I agree it seems the most logical, however logistically it isnât perfect by far.
The downside to C is that each playthrough will be very short. Especially if you continue from where Evacuation left off. Each playthrough would be 20-30 thousand words, which is very short for a standalone game.
Although⌠I have an idea for it that would work. Upon starting the spaceship section, you would have a choice of continuing from Evacuation or freeplay. Continuing would lock you into the correct storyline based upon your actions in Evacuation. Free play would let you play through any of the scenarios. In essence, the game would be both a continuation of Evacuation and a set of short stories.
Alright, Iâm relenting. The demo for the game is going up live on Dashingon.com
Itâs fully up to date (as of today) which means thereâs new content for everyone to read through.
There will be errors - Thereâs one persistent error that I havenât narrowed down yet. Hopefully, from feedback from you amazing testers, I can find it quicker.
MeanwhileâŚ
I have a question. I have uploaded all of the files to Dashingdon.com already but for some reason, the images are not working. All images are well under 1mb in size and they are all in jpg format. When I run the game from my computer directly, the images show up correctly. On Dashingdon.com they donât show up. The error message displayed is a 404, as if the files donât exist. The only image that I have got to work is dashpic.jpg - an image for the Dashingdon website.
If anyone can help with this image problem it will be appreciated!
UPDATE Thanks to Dashingdon, images are now working. The answer was to make all the images lowercase (servers are upper/lowercase sensitive where choicescript is not, so it worked fine on my computer but the server wasnât having it.)
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