The Show Must Go On by Sestren
Readability update on 4/28/2014
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I've added an extra 6 seconds to each tutorial panel to aid with readability, since several people mentioned they didn't have enough time to read everything. I'm hoping this is considered a minor enough change to not disqualify my entry.
Storyline
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In a heated tantrum, you fired your entire stage crew and all your actors. Tonight is opening night and you must do everything yourself! You have just enough time to rig together a few remote controls to the stage pieces so you can control everything yourself and rehearse a few times.
And then, it's on with the show!
To put on a good show ...
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Open and close the curtains at the beginning and end of the show.
Keep the waves in motion and use lots of wave sound effects (at least 3!)
Cue the shark and play its dramatic sound at least once.
Keep the waves centered on the stage and the car hidden behind the wave panels.
To select a prop
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C key cycles between "Open Curtain" and "Close Curtain"
W key cycles between the three different wave props
S key selects the shark prop
To cause a selected prop to perform an action
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LEFT or J causes the prop to move "stage left"
RIGHT or L causes the prop to mvoe "stage right"
DOWN or K causes the prop to stop moving
UP or I causes the prop to play its sound effect
Helpful tips
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To keep the waves moving and in the center, a "W, Left" three times, "W, Right" three times pattern of input works well.
There's no penalty for trying "Opening Night" instead of "Rehearsal," so choose it if you're tired of seeing the tutorial text display.
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I've added an extra 6 seconds to each tutorial panel to aid with readability, since several people mentioned they didn't have enough time to read everything. I'm hoping this is considered a minor enough change to not disqualify my entry.
Storyline
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In a heated tantrum, you fired your entire stage crew and all your actors. Tonight is opening night and you must do everything yourself! You have just enough time to rig together a few remote controls to the stage pieces so you can control everything yourself and rehearse a few times.
And then, it's on with the show!
To put on a good show ...
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Open and close the curtains at the beginning and end of the show.
Keep the waves in motion and use lots of wave sound effects (at least 3!)
Cue the shark and play its dramatic sound at least once.
Keep the waves centered on the stage and the car hidden behind the wave panels.
To select a prop
----------------
C key cycles between "Open Curtain" and "Close Curtain"
W key cycles between the three different wave props
S key selects the shark prop
To cause a selected prop to perform an action
---------------------------------------------
LEFT or J causes the prop to move "stage left"
RIGHT or L causes the prop to mvoe "stage right"
DOWN or K causes the prop to stop moving
UP or I causes the prop to play its sound effect
Helpful tips
------------
To keep the waves moving and in the center, a "W, Left" three times, "W, Right" three times pattern of input works well.
There's no penalty for trying "Opening Night" instead of "Rehearsal," so choose it if you're tired of seeing the tutorial text display.
Ratings
| Coolness | 91% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.28 | 453 |
| Audio | 2.40 | 742 |
| Fun | 2.85 | 709 |
| Graphics | 3.33 | 440 |
| Humor | 3.40 | 123 |
| Innovation | 4.31 | 16 |
| Mood | 2.94 | 599 |
| Theme | 3.33 | 497 |
They hated my show, but everything worked well.
1. People don't like to read. There's SO much reading. And most of it shifted off before I could finish reading them. Which led to...
2. I couldn't remember where any of the keys were so I had to resort to trying everything. Eventually I was like typing random characters...
3. The sound was very loud and obstrusive.
4. So anyway since I didn't know how to play... Yeah it didn't keep me in the game.
I think if you WANT TO rely on keys you need to put them on the screen somehow. Either onto the scene or under the game screen in the web interface.
And then expecting people to remember a whole sequence of events isn't going to work - sure yes you're trying to simulate a show's director and that's what they do for a living... But it's no fun!
Anyway I'd love to see this concept done in an intuitive way, could be tons of fun!
The finish was great. It's nice to see something well polished :)
But i like it, Good job
There is a lot to remember and keep track of at first, but I was able to get the hang of it pretty quickly. It would be fun if the play had several different scenes to it (and additionally confusing), but what's here works well.
And I love that you can spectate the results.
Still very clever/innovative and a cool twist on the theme. Good job. :)
Really interesting concept, and the execution was good for something made in 48 hours!
Anssi@MooseflyGames
But I gave it another try and it's fun and interesting. :)
Also, people seemed to like my play... XD
Controls are both uncommon ('w', 's' and 'c' doesn't line up nicely, it felt weird) and unpractical... I think it would be better to have two or three rows, for example (in a qwerty keyboard): the 'q' row move things right, the 'a' row left and the 'z' row plays sfx. Then, 'q', 'a' and 'z' should be the same command (e.g., "Open Curtain"), since they are in the same column.