Half an entry
Didn’t get to work on this as much as I intended this weekend, but I like the concept so I”ll probably try to finish it later. I’m fairly pleased with the progress but I’m embarrassed at how terrible the code got, and shocked at how quickly it got there. First thing when I resume, I think getting the bugs out of the cable code is going to require completely rewriting portions of it to be rational.
:edit: forgot to link the zip earlier. Click pic for download; includes the statically-linked win .exe, but the main.lua file should(?) run with any working retro setup. :edit2: smaller zip, omits RetroEngine.exe
Poached the concept from the #17 suggested themes… hopefully the theme won’t win, or I’ll end up feeling silly next month. Going to be a puzzle game where the player is working their way through a derelict ship trying to get it’s systems back online using only their collection of trusty Omnicables to transfer power, air, and fuel between systems.
This looks like a pretty fun concept. If the theme doesn’t win for LD17, maybe you should finish up the game and do something with it.
thanks thedaian, I’m planning to finish it up regardless, at this point I’m mostly debating whether to fix this incomplete compo entry or just start from scratch without retro. The code is really just horrifyingly terrible and needs to be rewritten, and the retro engine was great for a compo but if I’m planning on distributing it outside the contest it won’t register as a plus to most players, so I’m leaning towards leaving this version as-is and restarting the idea in python. I’m tempted to go on about the planned features, but I find the more I do talk about them, the less likely I am to implement them, so I’ll just say I should have another version (whether in lua/retro or not) later this month, which will actually be playable and won’t have the string bugs this version has. The LD48 entry might not have been finished, but as a proof-of-concept prototype of the design I’d call it a success
And I hope the theme doesn’t win for LD17 now – even if I start over,I’d still feel like I was cheating using a concept I’d designed a month in advance, so I have to come up with another wire & cable game idea!