My Game - Chapter 1 - Old Versions
Here is the changelog I maintained while working on the game.
The source-code for these versions are available - just click on the link.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs2.5 License.
You can save them to your hard drive and open them with any text editor, but
WordPad is recommended for Windows users.
These versions are not meant for playing. To play the game, go to this
page.
To see the changelog for the help files, click here.
Final Releases
- Removed the "enter" prompts at save/load screen
- Fixed typo
- Fixed bug with saving position
- Now you can load game at the gameover screen
- Added a save-load game feature
- Changed the ASCII art to use a hash
- Finally got around to fixing the "water" typo
- Same as version 1.0, but released under the Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs2.5 License.
- Verson change (Identical to version 0.9.2beta)
Beta Versions
- Actually said that the waiter was Nguyen Xuan
- Stuck my name in the title page
- Nguyen can't be too scared to talk and then talk right
after that
- Included help file in package, main game is unchanged
- Made commands more general
- stopping Nguyen
- Getting goggles/whiskey
- Update package, new beta testers
- Added Mac Linebreaks version
- Added easter egg
- Fixed typos
- Fixed "unless" conditional
- Added goggles/whiskey/book into inventory
- Fixed bug with commands
(Please note that the file says Version 0.8.5, that is a mistake,
it is really 0.8.1.
- Fixed ability to pick up items after Nguyen comes
- Fixed inventory muck-up
- Renamed variable $tea to $thirst and reversed values
- Gave full credit to ASCII art generator
- Added ability to pick up items after Nguyen comes
- Hid "Thirst" in inventory until alley
- Added "virus" as alcohol-antidote option
- Added option to restart
- Added "whoami" command
- Made commands more general for some areas (waiter)
- Added random GAME OVER ASCII art
- Added inventory
- Clarified "Simon says"
- Fixed "language" typo
- Expanded help file
- Cut back on waiting time
- Fixed error with endgame message @ remove goggles
- Fixed &common and &invalid
- Added options
- Poke butler with toothpick
- Laugh/cackle/giggle
- Wear TLP
- Original beta release
- Grouped common commands into one sub
- Added random invalid comments
- Added "easter eggs."
Alpha Versions
- Fixed responses
- Tea inconsistency
- Using toothpick
- Talking to healer
- Fixed "examine waiter"
- Condensed "gameover" responses
- Fixed misplacement of ? to make options optional
- Fixed typo
- Made outputting more efficient
- Removed obsolete variable
- Added more possible (location-specific) commands
- Added in invalid input catcher for Nguyen running and
removing goggles
- Fixed typo (loook instead of look) in four places
- Added "look" option in two sections
- Made it so that you can only drink tea once
- Fixed grammar issue in story
- Changed command to "email book" instead of "email books"
- Added option of using "e-mail" as well as "email"
- Made regexes cleaner and more efficient
- Made the Game Over ASCII art neater in the code
- Fixed the truncating of Game Over ASCII art
- Used sub instead of the three regex/print lines
- Readded new line for "look" in cafe
- Clarified pen/pencil/toothpick prompt
- Fixed "look (object)" command
- Added hint that Nguyen might run
- Indented code, redid printing command
- Fixed bug with breaking out of final loop
- Fixed usability issues
- Removed prompt after invalid input
- Removed counting invalid inputs
- Improved synonyms
- Added feedback in the Alley of Doom.