[modi123_1]

Okay - so I figure my game's help file would be sufficient to get the idea across. Enjoy.

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Are you sure you want to bask in the glory? I mean I don't want to taint your ideas still percolating for your own game!

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Last chance!

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Pedestrian Bear Finds a Friend!



Folks our good old friend Pedestrian Bear is lonely. So lonely he has taken to the streets to find a friend... a companion... someone to embrace... to hold.. so CARE for. The problem is ol' Pedestrian Bear is bad at directions and his valiant white electrician's van just doesn't have GPS. He needs you, his must loyal of compatriots, to direct him over the phone to the location of his new friend. He will follow your directions to a T over his disposable cellphone and hopefully you can get Pedestrian Bear a friend for his after school Ice Cream Social!

Controls:
w or up arrow = move up
d or down arrow = move down
d or right arrow = turn right
a or left arrow = turn left

Space: pauses game (any key unpauses)
alt-f4: closes down the connection to Pedestrian Bear.
Enter: select option

Interface:



The timer in the upper left is how long until someone becomes erroneously suspicious of the friendly Pedestrian Bear-mobile. What can he say - some folks just do not like taking chances!

When that timer runs out he's sunk and you, his amigo, have failed him.



The bar over indicates if Pedestrian Bear was successful at picking up his new friend!



The long bar on the right shows pertinent messages as they are needed.

Navigation:



Pedestrian Bear's friends can be found by the green circle. Navigate Pedestrian Bear around the poorly maintained streets with the WSAD or arrow keys.

Speech craft:



When Pedestrian Bear is pulled up along to his potential friend he must over come a small obstacle - convincing his new friend to join him on a trip! People are always warning about strangers so you need to help Pedestrian Bear gain the confidence of his friend-to-be!

The top bar shows the friend's name and his suspicion level. With the right combinations of options (1-3) Pedestrian Bear and whittle away at that suspicion and get it below the yellow bar. Each friend has a different threshold - so don't expect this to be routine!



Once that happens Pedestrian Bear's friend jumps in the nondescript electrician's van to have an ice cream party! Aren't ice cream parties fun?!

Do not dally too long - the count down timer here indicates how long the special little person will wait before they have to go.

Pedestrian Bear needs to wait for each option to recharge before using it again.

Oh, and one last thing... occasionally an option will INCREASE the suspicion! OH NOES! Each friend is different and you must gamble on which choice could be the one bad one. If the friend's threshold increases past its maximum they will run off screaming and hollering like the dirty little urchin they are. Let's not have that!

If you feel you are not making progress you can flee the encounter and make your way home

Home:



Home is the safe spot you need to navigate Pedestrian Bear to so the fuzz can cool down. This is indicated by the yellow circle on the map.

So how about it? Let's get Pedestrian Bear a new friend to take to an Ice Cream Social!

As I said - basic VB.NET.. no XNA.. the graphics were all PAINT.NET, Inkscape, and MSPAINT. The rest - basic forms. See the power that a bit of will can do ya?!

[modi123_1]

Oh.. and that sound you just heard? Yeah that's the gauntlet being thrown down!

[stayscrisp]

[Kilorn]

That is quite possibly the most epic submission I've ever seen to one of these challenges.

[SixOfEleven]

Good job there modi123_1. Will have fun testing that entry and writing up a score sheet. Which I will definitely do for this challenge.

[Shane Hudson]

Well here is my game, I have not done anything since I posted the screenshots though.

It includes source code but it is rather messy, I am sure there is better logic... but I am not a game developer so I have not had much experience with game logic!

EDIT:

Simple documentation goes like...

Screenshot



Compile Instructions

Go into folder and run the Game.java file using your jvm.

Objectives

You are at a town's Christmas Fête. Your aim is to steal presents, very much like The Grinch, and bring them to your home while avoiding the party-goers. For this version of the game, your home will always be top left.

Play Instructions
You start at Home (H) and are able to move directional by typing "north, up, east, right, south, down, west, left". Your character is at P on the map. Presents are x, you should collect these (one at a time) then take it to your home. NPCs are * on the map and move randomly, if you are on the same square then the present will be taken away.

If you are in a situation in which all moves will likely have an NPC (or you are developing a strategy) then you can use the drop command to drop the item where you are. To view your score, type score. Being a 2D map, it is possible that not all presents or NPCs will show as they could be in the same spot, so if you wish to know where all NPCs are (remembering that if more than one NPC is on a spot it is possible they will go seperate directions) just type npcs.

There is currently check for end of game.

This post has been edited by Shane Hudson: 23 January 2012 - 03:09 PM

[modi123_1]

Ah.. no screen shots? No write up on how your game works? No way to run a classfile included? Scooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrn!

[Shane Hudson]

There is a screenshot earlier in the thread, but I suppose I should write documentation!

[modi123_1]

I fail to believe that was the screen shot to highlight the game. I mean you aren't even using a 'console.clear'! That and I have absolutely no idea on the back story of the game... what's going on, who is pilliaging who, and so forth.

[Shane Hudson]

modi123_1, on 23 January 2012 - 08:20 PM, said:

I fail to believe that was the screen shot to highlight the game. I mean you aren't even using a 'console.clear'! That and I have absolutely no idea on the back story of the game... what's going on, who is pilliaging who, and so forth.

It is more of a proof of concept, I have been busy.

I spent hours searching for a console.clear in Java... it doesn't seem to exist.

I have edited my post, I might do some more before deadline but I doubt it. You have won regardless

[modi123_1]

Hmmm... better.. what the hell is a "Christmas fate"? Is that some slick brit thing kept under wraps? (yeah that pun on your project is given free of charge).

Interesting concept.. Are the towns folk actively hunting you down?

[Shane Hudson]

modi123_1, on 23 January 2012 - 09:54 PM, said:

Hmmm... better.. what the hell is a "Christmas fate"? Is that some slick brit thing kept under wraps? (yeah that pun on your project is given free of charge).

Interesting concept.. Are the towns folk actively hunting you down?

No they are not hunting you down... I thought about having a Hitman style metre so that if you steal a present without range of someone everybody will look for you for a while, but not 100% sure how I would implement it cleanly and I have been pretty busy since I made that version. Might go back to it later.

Christmas fate, meh... I couldn't think of what you call outside parties in small communities.

EDIT: Another idea I had was to make the board bigger (and graphical) and to have groups of people "talking" and a Christmas tree in the middle... but ye that didn't happen lol

This post has been edited by Shane Hudson: 23 January 2012 - 03:01 PM

[modi123_1]

Gala?

[stayscrisp]

Don't you mean 'fete' not fate. Just sayin'

[Shane Hudson]

stayscrisp, on 23 January 2012 - 10:06 PM, said:

Don't you mean 'fete' not fate. Just sayin'

Yes.