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There Is No Screwdriver
There Is No Screwdriver
By jamesdm
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Theme | 51 | 3.29 | 17 | |
| Overall | 64 | 2.06 | 17 | |
| Fun | 64 | 1.82 | 17 | |
| Innovation | 66 | 1.76 | 17 | |
| Humor | 43 | 1.60 | 5 | |
| Polish | 68 | 1.65 | 17 | |
| Food | 21 | 2.62 | 13 | |
| Journal | 31 | 3.00 | 13 | |
| Technical | 64 | 1.79 | 14 | |
| Graphics | | | 2 | |
| Audio | | | 1 | |
Comments
Well... disappointing to be left hanging, to be sure. And considering the title of the game, I am quite curious.
WHY WHY WHY do you make me capitalize every word? And not accept any shortcuts ("L" or even allow "get" instead of "take"??). This adventure has one of the worst cases of "guess the author's intent" ever, presumably because it was thrown together in 48 hours. Case in point: There's a lit cell to the North West. What do you do? Go NW? No. Go North? No. Go West! Then go North! Insane!
That combined with the ... not quite buggy, but glitchy perhaps, nature of it makes it really hard to actually play (and having to type those huge long commands with (im!)proper capitalization). Things like constantly being told I bridged the copper contacts each time I try to guess how to move on to the next room (turns out the door that was to the west is also to the east, and once you are 'in' the door lock, it's to the north!) are really weird and make it hard to follow.
So it seems quite interesting, but needs a lot of implementation help.
Tried using inform? =)
wait, you learned programming and python during the LD48???!! Ok, I forgive the game then :)
Could had been a nice adventure game, but it suffers from technical problems, like Hamumu described. I also hated having to Look Around explicitly all the time instead of the game just telling me what I see automatically.
This game really needs some better parsing functions that remove capitalization, spaces and punctuation, replace synonyms, etc. As it is now, it is pretty much unplayable (unless you have game.py open as well).
I don't know why everyone is ragging on it so much, I mean it's only a 2 day game. Not bad for that.
I'm with Hamumu here -- I felt like I was constantly fighting the game, instead of experiencing it. The caps are a pain in the ass, but they pale in comparison to the complete lack of interaction for commands you didn't want:
You see an electronic lock on the east wall and a door to the North.
You approach the closed door to the west
> North
You approach the closed door to the west
> East
You approach the closed door to the west
> Open Door
You approach the closed door to the west
> West
You approach the closed door to the west
> @&#$ YOU
This is where I stopped. :)
I am way impressed that you just learned python. Keep with it and I hope you participate next time.
I got stuck in the hallway and I got fed up. Nice attempt, especially for a first program.
The input being case sensitive really bothered me. Good job on making the amount of different things you can do quite big. Somehow I didn't get a sense of direction in this game and it took me a few tries to even realize which command I should use on what.
It's annoying for reasons described by the other posters, but I'm impressed that you managed to make this in a day with no previous programming experience, and I was interested in where the story was going.
For a first attempt, in 24 hours and never having actually coded not bad.
Glad you're learning to program. It's well worth it!
About the game, not much more to add other than what others have said.
I could not get your game to download successfully.
Ok, so a lot of games out there make you hit everything with your sword. This game, on the other hand, make you poke everything with your screwdriver. It's too linear to have any replay value, but I'm interested in where the story is going.
Technically, it needs a lot of work, but once you make yourself look past that (and a lot of coders don't...) it's really good considering you learned your first programming language as you made this.
Ok. I suck. Couldn't make anything happen, despite capitalization. N/A for sake of fairness.
Like DrPetter I can't get the game to accept anything I type despite trying to capitalize things, so I'm just going to N/A this too.
you still have quite a bit to learn in python and programming in general. string manipulation is a crucial part in any game weather 3d or no-d. the game has alot of bugs and should have been play tested alot better. great effort though. well written story.