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P-Rix - Space Trucker is a sci-fi slice-of-life interactive game, made in Twine.
Play the eponymous P-Rix, a space trucker on a mission to deliver a stranger cargo to an as-mysterious Mr. E. Unfortunately for him, the voyage won't be as simple as he had planned...
First released for the Two-Button Jam and Twine Sci-Fi Jam on Dec 17th 2022.
This is a partial demo, including so far the Introduction (~ 10k words) and multiple endings.
Keybinded links
Mobile optimisation (portrait)
Font settings (incl. 6 different fonts)
Animation and Accessibility toggles
TW: death, foul language and swearing, animated text/object/background (toggeable)...
Partial demo will be uploaded at 5PM at the latest. Will have a beginning for sure, the middle will feel empty, and so will the end. The last two are still included because of the gameplay put in place (there are endings depending on the choices you make), but won't probably feel as satisfying as I hoped it to be. Might feel rough, because this week was... w e i r d
Expect updates in the next weeks. Am just making sure it's out before busy time starts again.
This is still not an intro post. Reserving that for later, sorry...
A quick update. Still not all that was written this week but about 1k words have been added (coded). P-Rix gets to restart the ship's system, choose a destination and talk to one peep. And a new screen colour!
Also fixed some UI issue:
a raised problem with the intro not appearing correctly on larger fonts
font settings just not working at all
padded the passages for nicer scrolling/reading experience
savenames picking up on code rather than text (manual save)
the doors in the intro will close if you go back in time
Also added some trigger warnings at the start, which currently include:
...foul language and swearing, animated objects and background, death...
Play here :D
Note: I have added more animation overall, but not yet a setting. Don't worry this is planned (it's in the top part of the to-do list). If you do have an issue with them, please let me if you'd prefer no animation at all or a slower speed or something else!
ALSO some fun added assets!
P-Rix visual and the Station attendant (currently named Susan, but I'm not happy with the name).
Long image below, transcript in Read More. Links to published project in Read More.
Changing the format compared to last year, a lot more has happened this year than the last one. There is also much more I would want to touch upon (like STATS :D), but that'd make this post way too long (already the Post-Mortem of The Thick Table Tavern last month was a lot).
Below is the TLDR. Here is Part 2. The Stats are in Part 3. And the Future is in Part 4 (TBP).
Last September, I had made a little Schedule for the End of the Year. Obviously, I was way off. I only published/updated half of the things I said I would, and ended up putting out new smaller (more fun, less frustrating for me) projects instead.
Next year's expectations is to... finish my WIPs (starting the smallest ones to have them off my desk). I have too many projects in my hands, and it's not sustainable. I've been preaching about not having too may WIPs, but don't even follow my advice. My goal is to have by the end of the year only Crimson Rose & White Lily, SPS Iron Hammer, and The Thick Table Tavern still unfinished (TTATEH is dependent on MelS's progress more than mine). Knowing me, I'll try to squeeze a few Jams/Comps entry anyway...
Links
Assets:
Templates: 100% Good Twine SugarCube Templates (Simple Book and One Page)
Tweego: Ready-To-Use Tweego Folder
Guide: CScript to SugarCube Transition + Compiler
Tutorial/Resource: Coding Support
Games (first release date order):
Meeting the Parents (Complete - EN/FR)
Crimson Rose & White Lily (WIP - EN - @crimsonroseandwhitelily)
Exquisite Cadaver (WIP - EN)
SPS Iron Hammer (Incomplete/Hiatus - EN - @sps-iron-hammer)
The Thick Table Tavern (Incomplete - EN)
The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt (WIP - EN)
La Petite Mort (Incomplete - FR)
Goncharov Escapes! (Complete - EN)
P-Rix - Space Trucker (WIP - EN)
Le Jeu de la Dévotion Partim 500 (Temp* - FR)
*will be moved to my website soon
Sites:
Personal Website
Itch Page
IFDB Profile
IF Anonymous Confession Box: @if-confessions
The SeedComp! website (@seedcomp-if on Tumblr)
Interact-IF Tumblr: @interact-if
Other Sideblogs: @manonamora-rb, @crimsonroseandwhitelily, @sps-iron-hammer
Transcript
Retrospective 2022
January: Participation in the Interact-If Jam, seeing the release of SPS Iron Hammer, a sci-fi IF project.
February:
- UI Update for Meeting the Parents
- Release of Scene 2 of Crimson Rose & White Lily
- Ending Guide for SPS Iron Hammer
March:
- Ending Guide for Meeting the Parents
- Release of Scene 3 of Crimson Rose & White Lily
- Starts re-writes on Exquisite Cadaver
- Announcement of The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt
April:
- Re-haul of previous Scenes of Crimson Rose & White Lily (grammar/style edits)
- Re-writes of Exquisite Cadaver continue.
May: Beta for Crimson Rose & White Lily starts, while finishing the writing of Scene 4
June:
- Published the introductory Post for The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt
- V1 of Personal Website.
- Release of Scene 4 of Crimson Rose & White Lily
July:
- Re-writes for Exquisite Cadaver continue
- Start of the ground work on The Thick Table Tavern
- Release of the first SugarCube Template: the Simple Book template
August:
- Bonus content for Crimson Rose & White Lily (Summer prompts)
- Exquisite Cadaver V2 is released (Story Mode until Round 9)
- Release of the Ready-to-Use Tweego Folder
- Start of the #coding support
- The Thick Table Tavern build continues
September:
- Release of the ChoiceScript to SugarCube Guide
- Focus on The Thick Table Tavern
October:
- The Thick Table Tavern is released for the IF Comp
- Release of the One Page SugarCube Template
- Demo Release of The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt
- Release of La Petite Mort
- Re-writes for Meeting the Parents starts
November:
- The Thick Table Tavern is available on Itch
- Ranked 37 on the IFComp, 1st in the French EctoComp, and 3rd in the English EctoComp
- Release Goncharov Escapes!
- Completed Translation of Meeting the Parents
December:
- Meeting the Parents is updated for the final time.
- Organised the SeedComp!, a 2-Round creative IF Jam
- Released P-Rix - Space Trucker
- Participation in the Partim 500
2023 Expectations
Completion of Projects:
- P-Rix Space Trucker: missing content, mobile accessibility
- La Petite Mort: missing rooms, English translation
- Goncharov Escapes! : text edits, French translation
- Exquisite Cadaver: missing rounds
Updates of Projects:
- The Trials and Tribulations of Edward Harcourt: dependent on MelS
- The Thick Table Tavern: if time
Hopes:
- Update of Crimson Rose & White Lily
- New SugarCube Templates
- Start re-writes of SPS Iron Hammer
- Entry to Jam/Competitions
The update for Meeting the Parents is finally out! Almost two months after I thought I would be done with it...
Go play it!
My first ever IF event (that only took 14 days to organise lol) SeedComp! is online! Come participate with me in this 2-Round fun game jam!
Do you have a prompt lying around catching dust? An idea you were never able to code? A piece of code you could not include in a project? A UI mockup/code you could not use? Or a piece of music or art?
Submit it as a seed and see it being nurtured by another creator!
Or come use the submitted seeds to create something new!
Check @seedcomp-if for info and announcements!
Also yes... that seed is kind of a pushed concept for the sci-fi theme template I've been working on.
Since we are talking template... Here (a.k.a. my comp seed) is a bit of a preview. It is not complete (I didn't do the Dialog Boxes for example) and definitely not easy to edit as of now. It is also not mobile compliant, maybe tabled, but def not mobile.
My plan is to strip it a bit down to an easier form, finish the dialog boxes, add the usual settings/controls, and trying to make it mobile accessible (haven't decides on the orientation yet). It will have 3 colour scheme, 3 fonts (incl. OpenDyslexic), annotated stylesheet and JavaScript, etc...
If you think I wasn't going to use my comp seed as is right now (well more edited actually), well, you're wrong :P
Coming next weekend: P-RIix : Space Trucker
A Slice-of-life Sci-fi IF game about a space trucker doing a delivery.
That's what I'll be submitting to the Twine Sci-Fi Jam and the 2 Buttons Jam (because challenge :D). This past week, I have done quite a bit: coded most of the UI (duh) and mocked up the rest, plotted the story (it's a very simple one), coded part of the mechanic (if you've played Goncharov Escapes, you won't be surprised to see some thing in this one), and started writing.
I have to figure out the resource management of this thing... If I could do CSS animations, I CAN DO THAT!
Some other stuff:
The Confessions Time moved to @if-confessions. Send your IF confessions there!
The Goncharov Jam is now over so go play some Gonch games (play mine, it's fun!) !
My entry to the French IF Comp is out! Play it here!
It has dark stuff, puzzles, suspense... and an unexpected end :P
You can vote for the French IF Comp until the end of February!
(please go vote, the games are really cool!)
(also I saw a funny Chicken picture, and I had to submit to this other jam for the lolz. Like the SeedComp! prompt, you can use that one however you want! It's under the CC-BY license)
Fixed :
some visual issues with small height non-mobile screens
settings in the light mode, and labelling overall
title page small edits
Reloading the page will only give you the logo
the glitchy text in Chapter 3 is fixed (it now works! if you have the setting turned on)
MelS wrote quite a bit this week too! We've passed 8k words.
I don't have any substantial story update to give yet... but I've still some a tiny bit of coding work:
Some visual issues are getting fixed (similar ones to TTATEH + others).
2 new fonts will be included: a monospace and Atkinson Hyperlegible.
I am also adding Keybindings to the main story (the Codex Pages will be a bit tricky, as of now they won't work) for computer play.
I will be changing the code for the notification to a more aria/screen-reader friendly (and there's a lot of them)
A big bug found in the last update of TTATEH has turn up in CRWL too, so that's getting fixed...
Some other bugs raised lately have to be checked out...
OH and the biggest thing: I am adding custom pronouns AND give the choice for the player to choose their title (liege, lord, lady) regardless of their genre :D
Anyway, the Settings, the whole Prologue and Scene 1 is clear. I have started Scene2. Going through the scenes is a bit dull and repetitive (there's 1.5k lines of code for each scene on average), but I am chipping away at it.
Nothing big actually. Just added 2 fonts : a Garamond like and the Atkinson Hyperlegible.
No I haven't forgotten P-RIX. I've been fighting its code all this time...
Anyway, the UI will be changing slightly to give more space for the text (less scrolling, especially on bigger font sizes). The background has also changed (especially the stars looking less like rain, lol). And the radar actually works this time too!
And I've been testing a Mobile portrait version (finally!), which will not include the background, but will be much easier to play!
[It'll be the next UI template too, but bare]
This is the first update of February, so here's a little run-down of what to expect here this month:
a small CRWL update (general UI and bug-fixing)
a P-Rix update (UI for sure, extra content maybe? time will tell)
my SeedComp! entry (if I manage, it will be Gonch-short)
The IFDB Awards are ongoing. You can vote for Outstanding entries published in 2022 until the 17th of February!
Check out this post for more information.
This is the first year of this award, so the turn out will decide what will happen to it (or at least some categories) next year. Please go vote!
(I have like 7 games that are eligible this year, some have appeared on the polls already, it's neat :P )
Patched some lil bugs (one that I had created trying to fix something else...), reformatted some pages, and fixed some typos.
Since the end of the Comp, the French IF community has been streaming the entries. Last Wednesday was my turn! It is not a full playthrough (as the game is really that long), but it solved all puzzles but one. The participants in the stream were also quite close in figuring out the story... :)
Two people on the IntFiction Forum are also reviewing the Comp entries. And I was among the first to get very lovely reviews from both of them!
I've also got someone lovely return from players in general, as well as more critical feedback/ideas for edits. When I have a bit more time, I will try to implement those and add an English translation to it...
Anyway, play DOL-OS here!
No one has figured out the Easter Egg or found the hidden meaning either yet... :(
I have finished reworking the UI.
This include shuffling around some blocks, increasing the container size, simplifying the Interface code, adding some transitions between screens, fixing the animations (;-; finally), adding a new "screen", customising the Dialog boxes, etc...
AND ! The UI has been optimising for Mobile view too!
To get the full experience, I'd still advise for a screen being at least 900x600, but smaller screen (portrait) will be able to play soon!
Before I upload the fix, I would like to add a tad more text (a small scene with Mr. E) and add a few extra settings, especially for timed/typed animated text (tested, need to add to the file), and font options.
Maybe next week update? Or the week after...
You know what I forgot last week? Recoding the searching through the room part of Scene 1 (because it's a sperate file)... That's done now. As well as the side destination options. I've done 1/3rd of Scene 2, not touched Scene 3, and half of Scene 4.
I thought I would have been further than I am now but I'm not... I forgot how big the chapter were. Each file is 1.3k - 2k lines of code/writing. That's a lot to go through.
On the plus side, since I've figured out a better way of coding the next animation, I got to optimise some stuff!
I am still not set on a title, but I do have the theme for my SeedComp! entry: Noir... but kind of a spoof?
Short pitch: you play as a down-on-your-luck P.I. waiting for your next case to pay your bills, when a Dame enters your office.
The whole thing is drafted, I've described the big actions/choices, and started writing it. Since I've also set myself on the One Page template as my UI, I won't need to spend too much time on that. Just the coding, when the writing is done.
P-Rix was updated this week! with an upgraded UI and can be played on mobile!
(there are a few things that I need to fix, but research is needed...)
And I've even made an Intro Post! (after like... 2 months lol)
Making some slow progress, but progress nonetheless. Scene 2 and 4 are done. I have Scene 3 to do, check that all variables work like they should, and find a way for the Codex to work with keybinding (and be mobile accessible too...)...
Maybe before the end of the month (or like on that last day :P ) I could be done?
My @seedcomp-if entry. The first third is written (there's already 3k words...). The middle part is probably going to be longer, and the last shorter?
If I can't finish the last third, I have an alternative option. But I'd rather not use it...
Oh and I have title :P It's secret but I wanted to say it...
MelS has passed 10k words for the next Chapter. Still hasn't reached the half point. There will be quite a bit of variation already....
The Results of the IFDB awards are published! Congratulations again to all awardees!
If you are looking to try something new (maybe a genre, or gameplay), the winners are all great!
A bit over 1 week before the @seedcomp-if deadline! There is still a bit of time to create something fun based on creative seeds!
Little reminder about the Spring Thing 2023 Edition and the intent registration (March 1st)!
And finally, the French Comp Voting Period ending soon too Check Comp Page for a bunch of fun French games.
