Pills is a text-based adventure, otherwise named interactive fiction (I guess). Featuring 12 endings, a party at the beach, a ménage à trois, broken ribs, a roguelike map, procedural level generation (on the borders only), more than 900 lines in my talk file, 3 gotos, and again, a staggering 12 endings.
I'm pretty happy about it. It's my first LD, I went for a strange kind of games, content-driven, and still, it's done ! English isn't my mother tongue, so, sorry if there's oddities :)
Technical stuff : - based on Curses, so no Windows version anytime soon. Sorry :( - You'll need perl and the Curses package for it (either through CPAN or your OS). Just run Main.pl. - Please don't peek in the code. It's rotten to the core.
Sam Rodgers > Thanks, but I'm already working on it. It should be up (intermittently) soon, by telnet, once I get it to run properly.
The theme is about the pills. Instead of taking them and being dumbed down, you can put them to better use (but not every path have this option). I know it's loose, but I sort of lost focus when writing the story...
Just played this on my netbook (ubuntu). It's pretty good. The ascii graphics are effective and the story's well-told. I got endings 8 and 1 (which was seriously creepy btw) on my two playthroughs.
I like the conversation system. At first I wasn't sure what was going on, but I think I got the idea by the end, and then I played through it a couple more times. I couldn't figure out how to really affect the outcome though. For example, I expected taking or not taking the meds would have a significant effect on the ending, but I managed to get ending 10 on two tries where I did or didn't take them. I'm probably missing some significant options, but I was only able to get ending 10 and ending 11.
Got this error at one point: Use of "goto" to jump into a construct is deprecated at main.pl line 318.
Besides, I got it working by installing the perl-curses package on Arch Linux. I like the weirdness of it, but after playing to the end (once), I still don't quite understand who's saying what, nor where the theme comes into play. I might try once more...
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The theme is about the pills. Instead of taking them and being dumbed down, you can put them to better use (but not every path have this option). I know it's loose, but I sort of lost focus when writing the story...
And sorry about the telnet server, but I'm not gonna be able to make it, I'm behind schedule at work :/
Use of "goto" to jump into a construct is deprecated at main.pl line 318.
Besides, I got it working by installing the perl-curses package on Arch Linux. I like the weirdness of it, but after playing to the end (once), I still don't quite understand who's saying what, nor where the theme comes into play. I might try once more...