WALKTHROUGH

208462

Level 32 Chipist

kleeder

post #208462 :: 2025.01.15 12:11am

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we walking, guys

208464

Very exciting!

208484

plain text is challenging

208488

lets go

208489

walk texting

remove that rule "rendered to mp3" it's worthless 🥴

208494

PLAINTEXT!!

208497

if you don't fully voice your entry you will be receiving all 1s from me 😎

208500

i am bad at writing D:

208501

no way :O

208504

woo YEAH

208507

PLAINTEXT MAJOR IS REALLLLLLL

pretty excited for this shit

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208526

if you want some inspiration The Walkthrough King

208527

I may not have time to fully realize my idea, but I think I could do something really fun with this...

208534

whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA I love this idea

208537

holy shit we got this one

208557

genuinely such a cool major idea

208610

can we use UTF-8 unicode with up to 2 bytes per char/symbol or is it restricted to 7-bit/8-bit ASCII

208671

Since the lyceum just soecifies ASCII and UTF8 I think you should be good with Unicode there.

208695

I don't really know Unicode, ASCII or UTF8 so I don't know but I got a crazy idea about multiple endings or something along those lines. Ill worry about the fancy stuff once things are written down in some form.

208698

with 7-bit ASCII one can write in english
with UTF-8 one can write in any language

208700

To that note, people should feel free to write their entry in their preferred language if so desired. We can translate :)

208919

the pro of this battle is also the con - that is, by writing a walkthrough, you're essentially designing an entire game, like, it's almost exactly the same amount of work as writing an actual design document.

now I'm gonna feel like I need to actually make the game I'm writing a walkthrough for, and who's got that kind of time? what are you trying to do to me??

208923

the cool thing is that you are free to do what you just described.
or you write a novel and turn it into an interactive storytelling-game, where you can write a walkthrough for - which wld rather be a story than a game, but still fair.

or you design a simple arcade game that leans more on the funny/joke side of things.

etc etc

the options are endless. but yea it can be a lot of work - thats why its a major, not an ohb c:

208942

I might keep the implications that it's a pick you own adventure but only give a walkthrough for one or two endings. Smaller tips and tricks for the other endings as well as mini events like battling a shopping cart or other everyday stuff (no true ending would be wild)

208992

Oh I’m not complaining by any means 😉

210713

battle is ending in 3 days and only 5 entries

210718

There will be at least 6 by the end.

210728

pls the major cant boonloss

210794

bonsave???

210802

just make an entry it's not that hard
(I'm still doing one)

210807

This is an example of a great idea that was hard for me to get up the nerve to try. I had way too much fun writing an entry. I encourage everyone to try!

210840

this major happened at a bad time for me, so i never got very far with my entry - i'll post my notes
though in case they're of any interest! hilariously, i mostly ended up fleshing out the trans girl coder side character instead of the supposed main characters, so i think it's clear where my loyalties lie

210864

spending the 10 hours speedrunning this battle sounds fun

210940

2 extendos in a week??? That's gotta be some sort of record, right?

210941

last I checked this had 6 entries

...WHERE TF DID THE OTHER 6 SPAWN FROM?!?!?!?

atleast it boonsaved lol

210942

@Flarf: This battle was not extended, it just moved to the voting period.

@SRB2er: The "Last Day" event causes twice as many entries to spawn. This can be useful for grinding criticist points.

210946

oh I'm stupid XD

210966

hoping my entry gets some comments & feedbacks, was really excited to submit it for this comp :>

211026

dangit, I totally missed this! All of these entries look really cool though, will definitely be voting :]

211225

how will renders be handled? like how was suggested with .mp3 voiceovers or images of the text? i imagine images would be very large and tedious.

however, i'd be willing to help with rending mp3 if someone needs me to read over smth

211229

plaintext shld get rendered to images, not audio
or you simply donload it and read it in a text editor of your choice

211235

For renders of long text id suggest just grabbing a screenshot from of small portion of text (see mine for example). Keep in mind viewing the plaintext on the site via clicking through the render won’t preserve mono spacing or most ascii art type stuff. It is nice to have though.

211774

my idea for this that I never even started writing was a game called "massive farming" that you would play in a terminal window. It's a farming management game where your only action is writing axioms in first order logic and your starting axioms are like "there exists farmers" ... I suddenly realized I didn't know enough math to write about it but that's still a really funny idea to me. Also perfect for this major because I would never actually want to play that lololol

e: watch the movie adaptation here

211829

the couple times I've seriously tried to play sim farm felt almost as frustrating as I imagine that would be. I'm fairly mean at simcity too

211913

Get your votes in -- we could use a few more! Once this closes this weekend, I'll be hosting the results in Discord voice chat. See you then!

211925

It's been awesome to read the different takes people have on this battle -- if you're not voting, you're missing out!