Comments on: After School

By: increpare

increpare — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:48:45 +0000

hmm; getting problems with mouse selection; it doesn’t seem to work (Except when my cursor is in the top-left-hand quadrant of my second screen, and then clicking doesn’t work). I have a feeling that a windowed mode might fix this. ah well :/

By: jazmeister

jazmeister — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:04:19 +0000

Not at all, I didn’t mention it anywhere. I should have really let any key do it. NO WAIT NOT LETTING ANYONE SKIP IS A GREAT IDEA HOLD ON ITS PART OF MY VISION

By: eoferr

eoferr — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:23:38 +0000

Ah space bar. How silly of me. I think that renders most of what I said invalid.

By: jazmeister

jazmeister — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:55:04 +0000

Oh, you can press space to skip text. I was thinking of shortening the in game “days” and making them a little less independant (even though this conversation in real life really /is/ like talking to a primitive NPC) so she’ll, like, remember if you said something nice yesterday or whatever.

Thanks for the comments

By: eoferr

eoferr — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:49:35 +0000

I enjoyed this. I think that the only problem it has is the length/ability not to fast forward through conversations. I understand that this adds to the mounting sense of frustration and desperation, but I think that if you wanted it to be an effective anti-DV ad that would reach more people (as the ending seemed to indicate), it needs to be standard ad-length (or be more varied).

By: jazmeister

jazmeister — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:07:02 +0000

I sent you an email, dess, and I can confirm that it seems to have this problem on XP and not on Vista, and that XP people can /sometimes/ play it by *shudder* installing the yoyo games plug-in and playing it in the browser. Eek!

By: dessgeega

dessgeega — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:13:14 +0000

jaz, drop me a line when you upload the source. i’ll look it over.

(i got the same problem.)

By: jazmeister

jazmeister — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:25:47 +0000

I’m probably gonna upload the source somewhere, then. I can’t replicate that problem at /all/. The highlighting and click detection are triggered by watching mouse_y, so maybe that’s it. Hmm. Do I sound like a programmer yet? I’m using Vista… maybe I’ll hack together a keyboard number-selection thing.

As for your responses to the game itself – holy crap! I’m flattered that you guys like it so much. I’ll certainly devote the odd evening to development now that I’ve got a taste for it

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:38:52 +0000

Excellent work! I left a comment on twitter

As for how I got it working: haven’t a clue what the problem was, so I tried decompiling it. For whatever reason, running it in a window seemed to fix it before I’d even had a look at the scripts.

By: ExciteMike

ExciteMike — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:57:22 +0000

Holy cow! This game most definitely does the theme justice!

Waitasecond, this is your first game EVER!? I hope you make many many more!

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:30:11 +0000

Yep, exactly like that! I wasn’t able to highlight it red – all three options were in white.

By: jazmeister

jazmeister — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:26:32 +0000

Ruh roh! You mean that first set of dialogue choices, like in the screenshot? I can’t seem to make that happen on mine. I’ll try getting some friends to test it. Anyone else having that problem?

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:07:03 +0000

Just tried it there; I like the concept a lot, but I couldn’t seem to select anything in the first menu (clicking didn’t do anything), so I couldn’t play it…