Three out of five of Work of Fiction’s puzzles are starting to function.
I’m also considering dropping five puzzles so I have 20 solid ones total. Four sets of five puzzles instead of five sets of five puzzles. Once you beat four out of five in a set, you unlock the next set. This way there’s always at least one other puzzle you can work on if you’re stuck, and all five puzzles are different styles of puzzle solving, so hopefully this is enough to avoid lots of potential ragequits. Also this means that in order to beat the game at all, you have to beat at least 16 puzzles.
Here’s a few vague screenshots of the first three puzzles. Keep in mind that these are all pretty abstract, so fret not if you don’t understand what’s going on. Also they’re pixellated on purpose.
Startling how quickly I’m getting through this project now that I’m just doing it myself.
Also, I got an update on the Company port to the iPhone–It’s starting to work, but the physics are still a bit wonky. Either way–progress! I wonder when it’ll be done? And I wonder how well it’ll do? I’m a little nervous about it because Company isn’t the kind of game that I think of when I think “iPhone game.” Stuff like Angry Birds is best suited, where the game is tuned to be playable for very short amounts of time. Company is only one little experience, and it only lasts half an hour…will anyone buy this thing?
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Mike
Nice idea with the musical instruments, that’s suuuuuuper important for learning something completely. Like you’re going to know about different materials and how sound works, thats cool. I learned about how meat dries, and now I have an idea of how things dry. Also, for the cell game, (maybe) making it more realistic, by like making it kinda like a 3d osmosis jones will make it more visceral and real. maybe. Yea but it’s gonna take you a while to make anything, just like my cousin who’s an artist, each mosaic takes like a month, depending how big it is. A big project, like on the side of a building took him like 8 months, but his work is…. rigorous and detailed and very thoughtful and carefully crafted. His works are good, old museum art good, like roman vases good. Anyway, yea it’s good that you are making your own instruments because i’m doing the same thing, but with economics. It really helps you understand precisely how the physical world works. It’s nice.