A Simple Text Adventure Game in a very tiny world.
So, this is my second game overall and first that is mostly original. I've been sick and doing naught but sleeping and programming (learning Python :D) for about 72 hours now, and suddenly realized that LD was up again. :O
This game features achievements, multiple endings, tragedy, comedy, and chaoticrazyawesomepicness!!!
Enjoy!!! (Works with any OS with Python 2.* installed)
Note: Source code download should now work! It was freaking out when I put the .py file up, so I just zipped it, and it seems to download just fine now. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Thanks. Firefox would let me log in, but I couldn't edit this page. I've been trying to fix this since it happened. Today I tried Chrome, and it worked. *shrug*
Thank you for pointing that out! I was always running it in terminal, so I never considered what it would look like if it started up its own window and then suddenly exited. Problem solved!
If you right click and save link as on the source, you get the .py source file. I'm not sure why browsers freak out at it, but as I stated in the description browsers don't seem to like my python file. *shrug*
Actually, I see your point. Even if you download it, it's screwed. I'm looking into this. Probably will just make it a zip file and see if it fixes it.
I couldn't figure out how to run the pyc file, so maybe you should have instructions for that. But the .py worked for me. It's a very simple text adventure game with some oddities I don't understand (why does it ask me if I want to continue after each turn?) but a few cute twists, too. :)
@Tom7 Yeah, I decided to have it ask you to continue mainly as a way to pause so people could have enough time to read the text. I'll come up with a better way of doing this when I update it and make it longer.
Then, simply open a cmd prompt or terminal (depending on OS) and type "python 'directory/to/gamefile/wtflemmeout.pyc'" replacing the directory/to/gamefile with the actual path. Should work like a charm!
First off, thanks for helping to remind me I need to install Python 2 on this laptop. ;P
It was incredibly short, but it put a smile on my fac.! You mentioned you were learning Python as you were making this and this is definitely a fantastic way to learn it. Keep it up and see you next LD!
I very much look forward to the next LD, and I'll also be developing a game this summer using Pygame. Four player co-op space-age platformer, but that's about all I can say for now.
Definitely innovative. The only other game I've seen made for LD that was entirely based on dialogue choices was this one visual novel in LD20. Though, there weren't many choices and the story was very short, with only 2 possible endings to begin with. It was somewhat funny, though.
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realgenius29 Apr 2012, 01:37
I for one was quite happy to see there was at least one text based adventure game. It fits in with the tiny theme. I'm glad you taught yourself some python too! GG.
Nerd cred for using python. First text-based game I've played this compo - a nice throwback to zork. I wish there was more than one room, but it was funny.
Thanks everyone for playing! I look forward to doing a longer game for the next LD! Also, things I learned:
1) Python is awesome! 2) Excess prompting is annoying. 3) Gremlins like hats. 4) LD community R0X!
@asfdfdfd - No, I haven't tried py2exe, but I want to play with it some because it sounds really helpful. I'll see if I can get this game to work with it as a test.
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@Tom7
Yeah, I decided to have it ask you to continue mainly as a way to pause so people could have enough time to read the text. I'll come up with a better way of doing this when I update it and make it longer.
Then, simply open a cmd prompt or terminal (depending on OS) and type "python 'directory/to/gamefile/wtflemmeout.pyc'" replacing the directory/to/gamefile with the actual path. Should work like a charm!
It was incredibly short, but it put a smile on my fac.! You mentioned you were learning Python as you were making this and this is definitely a fantastic way to learn it. Keep it up and see you next LD!
I very much look forward to the next LD, and I'll also be developing a game this summer using Pygame. Four player co-op space-age platformer, but that's about all I can say for now.
I am both glad and disappointed that fewer people have trouble launching your game than mine.
Good sense of humor! I quite liked it. I'd like to see what you could do with a text adventure framework ready to go for next time!
1) Python is awesome!
2) Excess prompting is annoying.
3) Gremlins like hats.
4) LD community R0X!
@asfdfdfd - No, I haven't tried py2exe, but I want to play with it some because it sounds really helpful. I'll see if I can get this game to work with it as a test.