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Hey Boo,
One of my bigger worries about chapter 3 was the inclusion of a choice prompt only maze. I've seen other games get backlash for including mazes and resort to publishing guides or patching the maze out completely.
I took a crack team or myself, myself with less sleep, myself slightly distracted, and myself on just the right amount of caffeine and we crafted a maze that wouldn't break the golden rule "I don't want players to bother me."
Many words got nested into several choices. We implemented a sister-smacking power up system. We made the scene a beautiful hedge full of flowers. Tully was there.
Despite the work from our expensive team, there is no plan to withstand reality.
It had to be tested.
When the alpha testers started dissecting the game, their zero feedback or reports revealed no problems but also no praise. When devs, I approached with "Hey, I have this new twenty minute demo, could you play it and tell me what you think?" they lost their discord accounts and porn site passwords to my worm and now I remote log in to talk to my egirlfriends. That's two for two non-negative feedback.
Everything was coming up maze!
The public release on steam, to the biggest audience I have ever had. They had nothing negative to say about the maze!
To celebrate, I stole my neighbor's patio furniture cushions to make a pillow fort.
but it wasn't a pillow fort
it was a maze
I crawled up inside it until I could walk. Then I walked until I got tired. So, I laid down for a nap.
In the maze
A little worm crawled on my shoulder and it told me secrets. One of the secrets was that it wasn't a worm.
It was a maze
It told me there was no physical way out. I had to build a key. It told me I have to make a game.
Here's the thing, the game's about a maze and it's made of mazes.
I brought my story back to the team and beat them into compliance. We've made this game.
We took the strengths of the chapter 3 maze and pinned down the few weaknesses. The maze was not physically possible. If someone were to draw out the maze, they would have something impossible to draw. This proves true and normal for my everyday experiences and found footage collection but I'm told that some people like mazes that are possible in less than five dimensions.
There is a segment in my previous game Candied Oblivion where characters are making out and it is unclear how to progress. Most of the kissing options lead to more kissing options. IN a practical sense, this was a maze.
We added more maze formats. Corn Mazes! Navigating town roads as mazes. Dungeon mazes. Flooded beaches with water wall mazes. A maze in your sister.
I introduce to you, Baskin All-In Mazes.
Experience the classic Baskin story with a maze between every scene! Real mazes. Metaphor mazes. Five dimensional mazes! More power ups and more sisters! Guest characters! Death and games overs! Mazes in space fighting off the Phor!
Live in the maze, die in the maze. All IN THE MAZE.
Blog time
Hey again, boo,
I took a poll about communicating more about updates and a bunch of people shrugged and said why not.
In reality the why not is boring updates are disengaging for people. So, I'm going to try not to make it boring. The goal is to do three public posts a month, more than my one that included a progress report and backer rewards announcement. And, I can talk about media I've experienced.
Marathon
I've been playing a little Marathon. I've tried to play the original trilogy before because the story is so nuts and complex in a time where boomer shooters were just doom clones, which we now think of as simple. The Bungie guys were just so cool.
Marathon looks unlike anything else, which was a huge draw for me. That and having cheated to have the original story spoonfed to me, I'm very interested in the story. I do feel like a tool for experiencing the mystery through an in universe corporation that seeks to profit off of everything but that has always been a part of the setting. Though, I'd rather bust heads on the side of a rogue intelligence.
I'm not terribly far into the game. Partly because I am busy working in the chunk of my free time that isn't dominated by family. There is also a state of mind that I've noticed that I'm just better at shooters during. There is a level of attention, awareness, and reflex that I can't always conjure up. Also, none of my friends have gotten into it with me and I don't feel like they are playing anything better.
Good Kid
I've been listening to Good Kin in my song mixes. They are a rock band and a lot of their videos have this anime continuity that tickles the anime part of my brain. It's pretty good in a light, and breezy bubble gum song kind of way. I went through and tried to web research and find more for it. Like, if there was a comic or a webseries, I would be into that shit.
JJK
This anime kills me. I watch an episode and during the credits, realize I need a break to emotionally process everything I've seen. I had doubts about this season when half an episode was devoted to words on the screen with infographics but that part of my brain quickly got placed in a dark, cursed box far away from the light of day.
Hopefully that was interesting. Please let me know what you think in comments. I'm always on discord.
And have a fantastic APRIL FOOLS!
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