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Cart #you_know_they_are_looking-0 | 2024-11-10 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA

You know they are looking

You know they are looking is a text based adventure game somewhat inspired by
"Away from this world" by stadam.
This is the first winnable version of this game.
This is very much not finished. This is a prototype.
If you have any feedback feel free to leave it in the comments.
I would like what this game plays like by someone who doesn't know what to do yet.
I want to turn this into a text based adventure that doesn't suck.

At the moment it isn't very good yet.

  • The menu's are a bit tedious to navigate.
  • The balance probably isn't right yet
  • There are almost no graphics to set the scene
  • There is no sound design
  • I probably missed a ton of typo's
  • Punctuation still needs work
  • The writing defenetly still needs some love
  • I want to get the general atmosphere to be as creepy as possible.
  • It is probably very hard to tell what you are supposed to be doing.
  • You need to deploy the solar panels in the beginning, but other than that they serve no function.
  • The intro and gameover screen are pretty much placeholders

On a more technical level:

  • Resources might be inappropriatly subtracted or added
  • Sometimes you get caught for no reason, or not caught when you should
  • Watch out for the spaghetti (view code at own risk)
  • Multiple endings can be triggered at once, leading to weird text sequences
  • Crashes are a possibility
  • Text changes color based on time, but also does so during an action

Some tips:

  • Get solar panels working first.
  • "Support" is mandatory to repair, radar is optional.
  • Whether an action gets you caught depends on ships flying overhead, You can see these on the radar.
  • An action takes 6 hours by default, the time it takes a ship to reach you, is taken into consideration.
    If a ship isn't overhead yet, but will be in the time it takes you to finish an action, it can spot you, if that action is one of the actions that get you caught.
    This is the most buggy feature in the game though. And it doesn't reliably work yet.




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