https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=27605 <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=48636#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico48635.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=48636#p"> HELLO WO#?! jam 1.0</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=27605"> MichelePirovano</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=48636#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> <p>Hello! We just completed the global game 2018 and we decided to learn PICO-8 for that! We started from scratch apart from looking at a few tutorials, so everything is a bit messy, but here we are!</p> <p>The theme of the GGJ 2018 was 'transmission' and we decided to make a game of communication in space.<br /> The feedback is still rough (hard to grasp what is happening at some times), but we are quite happy with what we did 2 days without knowing anything! PICO-8 sure is fun to use and, strangely, we had a lot less problems fixing issues in this game than with other jams, as due to the fact that everything was in our control we soon learnt where the errors were.</p> <p>Let me know what you think!</p> <p>Here are the game instructions:</p> <ul> <li> <p>HELLO WO#?! is a game of communication in space</p> </li> <li> <p>Commands</p> <ul> <li>X to confirm a selection</li> <li>Z to view diplomacy status</li> <li>Arrows to move the selection cursor</li> </ul> </li> <li>You are the planet 2242 Sagot. </li> <li>Your goal is to communicate with other planets in order to form alliances and avoid being destroyed. <ul> <li>You cannot actually win in the game (as of now), but you can try reaching the highest number of allies possible</li> </ul></li> <li> <p>Your planet has a small home icon.</p> </li> <li> <p>At each turn, you are given a recipient to message.</p> <ul> <li>You can either choose a good message or an insult.</li> <li>Press X to select the message</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>After you choose the recipient, the message appears above your planet and the needed translation to communicate with the inhabitants of the other planets appears on it</p> <ul> <li>You have 60 seconds to form a transmission route between you and the target planet.</li> <li>Use arrow keys to navigate towards the target planet</li> <li>All planets in-between will affect the message due to interferences, you need to find a route that helps deliver the correct message.</li> <li>Press X to send the message to the target planet when you have it selected.</li> <li>If you are out of time, the message will not be delivered and it will count as an error</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>After the message raaches the target planet, you will get an effect based on your intent and whether the message was correct</p> <ul> <li>if the message was correct and you were friendly, the target and all other planets in its faction will raise their friendliness</li> <li>if the message was correct and you wanted to insult, the target and all other planets will lower its diplomacy status. However, all other planets will rise it a bit.</li> <li>if the message was an error or it timed out, all planets (and the target in particular) will be angry</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>After that, a new turn will start</p> <ul> <li>all planets will have their interferences re-rolled</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>When the diplomacy value of a planet reaches a given threshold, it may become an ally or an enemy</p> <ul> <li>if the diplomacy is too low, the planet will become an enemy and won't show anymore what </li> <li>if the diplomacy is high enough, the planet will become an ally and it will not interfere anymore with your messages!</li> <li>if you have 4 enemies, you lose the game!</li> </ul> </li> <li>Final notes: <ul> <li>During the game, you can keep Z pressed to view the diplomacy status and faction of all planets</li> </ul></li> </ul> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30676 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30676 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:58:59 UTC