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Last Post<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow, such a troublesome weekend. I spent the saturday travelling and going to a concert, and when I was all ready to recover the lost time, I discovered my internet connection was offline. Not a single internets since yesterday at about 11PM.<\/p>\n

Today me and Cau\u00e3 worked apart on our PuzzleScript game (no connection, working offline). Then, 7PM into this motherfucking hot Sunday, my connection is back on.<\/p>\n

And then a bigger problem: PuzzleScript limitations we didn\u2019t know about. See, PuzzleScript is a crazy good tool for making little puzzle games, Sokoban-like games and a myriad of subversions on what you could call a \u201cpuzzle game\u201d. Terry Cavanagh<\/a> and Aaron Steed<\/a>, among others, managed to make impressive things with it.<\/p>\n

And we were trying to make a little piece of PuzzleScript subversion too. It was going to look like this:<\/p>\n

\"Luderia's<\/a><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a brazilian word that describes how we were planning to do it: gambiarra<\/em>. Gambiarra is the art of solving problems in a way they were not supposed to be solved. Makeshift repairs, DIY last-hour tools\u2026 and it extends to programming. You have a framework that doesn\u2019t expect you to try to do X<\/strong>. But you so want to do X<\/strong>. Then you make a little gambiarra and there is it, a perfectly fine X<\/strong> as long as you don\u2019t look at its inner workings.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how we were using PuzzleScript to make a game about getting Pokeymans, fighting tiny battles, choosing a little child\u2019s destiny and so on. All full of clouds and pretty grass and a cool game view. We just needed some time and a shitload of effort. But then we stumbled into a limitation we didn\u2019t know about: you can only have 31 objects in your game.<\/p>\n

The fact is: anything is at least one object. A cloud was 3 or 4 objects, the whole perspective gimmick took up 19 objects, battle system was at 5 objects and counting, 1 object made sure your pokeyman chirped now and then, and so on. \u201cShit, can\u2019t you guys make a puzzle game, as in Puzzle<\/strong>Script?\u201d, that\u2019s what happened.<\/p>\n

But hey, we have still plenty of hours left till Monday night!<\/p>\n

So, we\u2019ll see what we can salvage, and we\u2019re starting again! Wish us luck \":D\"<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>","time":"December 15th, 2013 5:10 pm","title":"You only get one chance to make a game?","title_was_empty":false}