A short PlayDate Pulp game with nine (9) unique enough endings!

You are a wizard and your shoulder hurts.

Your roommate's girlfriend is hosting a garden party this afternoon and your roommate has requested you be normal. Please please be normal.

Install directions

PlayDate Sideload

If you have a PlayDate, you can sideload the game. 1. Download the Playdate zip file 2. Log in to https://play.date/ 3. Go to https://play.date/account/sideload/ 4. Drag the zip file into the "choose a file" zone 5. On your device, go to settings > games 6. Wait for it to refresh the list 7. Download the game to the device

For streamers with PlayDates: If you wish to stream or record but play it on actual hardware, you can use https://play.date/mirror/ and a USB cable to mirror the device to your computer screen. If you go to the audio menu and disable the playdate audio and turn on the mirror audio, you can capture the sound through your system audio.

Pulp Webplayer

No device needed, but I recommend a mouse with a scroll wheel. 1. Download the json file. 2. Go to https://play.date/ and create a free account 3. Go to https://play.date/dev/#cardPulp and "Try Pulp now" 4. Click "Import" on the left sidebar 5. Select the json file, and confirm you wish to override the empty default game 6. Click play on the left sidebar 7. After you have it running, click the down caret button to the right of the volume bar and uncheck "docked" to activate the crank (scrollwheel)

Controls

• Crank - Crank your shoulder because it hurts so much
• A - title screen menu, interact with someone again, dialog boxes
• B - cancel out of menus
• d-pad - navigate, menuing

Webplayer:

• a and s keys map to B and A buttons
• Arrow keys map to d-pad
• Expand the menu next to the volume bar to access the crank. Uncheck "docked".
• Mouse wheel maps to crank

Known issues

Bugs and suspected bugs

• Crank is too sensitive on device. Rewrite crank detection code. In the meantime, dock crank between uses.
• ~~DEVICE ONLY: There seemed to be a crash on one ending.~~
• ~~One ending tracked but not displayed.~~
• Missing "'s" in the exorcism ending
• If you talk to the roommate to get the be normal ending, he says the wrong thing but you get the credit. (You can get the right blurb by not talking to him and just waiting for a few seconds.)
• ~~RM's GF's comment about aging is supposed to hurt your shoulder.~~ (Worked the whole time, I imagined it.)
• One dialog option on the ~~mom and~~ dad is too long.

Planned improvements if I get to it

• New tiles
  • Furniture
  • More trees
  • More variety in walls
• More endings planned
• More music
• Either morning front lawn rabbits should carry over to the afternoon front lawn, or your roommate and his girlfriend should comment on getting rid of them. (I hadn't decided between these two and then completely forgot.)
• Better dialog window placement
• Remap doors to place you in front of the door in the next room so you can go back to the previous room easier
• The "s" in the in-game font is a little hard to read. Either pick a different font or just fix the s.

Credits

Some sprite designs are from: - https://kenney.nl/assets/micro-roguelike - 0xDB GASP 8x8 1bpp RPG icons v1.8 Copyright by Dennis Busch, https:/www.dennisbusch.de

Fonts: - Pixican-7 Copyright (c) 2022 Scott Lawrence https://github.com/BleuLlama/Playdate-Stuff/tree/main/Fonts - Darkenstone by John Cosgriff https://www.fontspace.com/darkenstone-font-f7159

Changelog

• Fixed a crash that was only happening on device.
• Shortened one menu option to display correctly (on the mom only)
• Fixed a location where I accidentally called the garden party a "dinner party"
• The game was tracking all 9 endings but only displaying 8 of them. Added the missing string to the menu.