HTML Accidental Mind [v3.6 Alpha] [Myscra]

[Myscra]

Figured it out. If you don't mark her "Holy fucking shit thank you" text as read then you don't have any options when you visit her at night. Once I marked it as read I was able to dream walk.

I'm going to fix this. I'm not sure why I attached it to clicking the button rather than when the message just pops up.

It might just be something weird in your browser. Despite there being no cursor change, can you still click on the words and have something happen?

And could you try another browser perhaps? Which one are you currently using? Do you have any special "Accessibility" features turn on or anything like that that might affect how the pages are rendered?

(You know, this would actually be a very good game for blind players, except for the subtlety of the font changes used for this sort of puzzle. When Myscra has nothing else to do [Ha!] he might want to consider whether there could be an alternative puzzle dynamic that would totally suit a blind player. It'd be a worthy addition to the game I feel.)

Hmmmmmm, I always like more types of puzzles. Not sure about one that would be friendlier for visually impaired players. If anyone has any ideas, I'm down for it.

 

[BlackBirb]

How can I get past the Sniper at the Giga Cannon in Crystal's dream?

 

[Tiredpuff]

How can I get past the Sniper at the Giga Cannon in Crystal's dream?

Here's a tip, get a drone to follow you there.

Also, taking the opportunity. Great job with the game Myscra, I'm already completely in love with Prism, and really curious to what's to come with Umbralette.

 

[andy60]

Myscra
Still making my way through the new stuff so I will post my thoughts later but I think I found a bug

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fairly sure the elseif should also have a Kbond in it. This is in both RelaxR and RelaxSD.

 

[PeggyBlackett]

It might just be something weird in your browser. Despite there being no cursor change, can you still click on the words and have something happen?

Nope

And could you try another browser perhaps? Which one are you currently using? Do you have any special "Accessibility" features turn on or anything like that that might affect how the pages are rendered?

Firefox, then Opera when i thought of it.

And i have no special features on.

 

[BlackBirb]

Here's a tip, get a drone to follow you there.

Also, taking the opportunity. Great job with the game Myscra, I'm already completely in love with Prism, and really curious to what's to come with Umbralette.

Thanks a bunch, I had been so busy scanning for something to interact with that I completely missed it

 

[Tiredpuff]

Thanks a bunch, I had been so busy scanning for something to interact with that I completely missed it

Np, for me it was the same thing, I actually went to look at the code to understand what I was supposed to do, and it took a while for things to click.

 

[smkey21]

this update sounds pretty interesting. I probably won't be able to get a chance to play it until tomorrow evening, but this sounds like it should be a fun update.

 

[Suknickar]

... Is the bondage variable supposed to change names?

<<if $player.items.Kbond lt 4>>\
<<set $player.items.Kbond to $player.items.Kbond+1>>\
@@.pow; >>> You learn a bit more about ''Bondage''@@
<<elseif $player.items.bond is 4>>\
@@.pow; >>> The knowledge transfer is complete and you have gained an in-depth knowledge of ''Bondage''@@
<<set $vltKnow.push("Bondage")>>\

this appears to increment a variable called $player.items.Kbond but checks to see if the completion is based on $player.items.bond

I've poked around in the html and found a few other things of a similar nature, such as a variable with a space in the name that will break skill increments/checks for completion in regards to the knowledge vault entry.

If this is the current state of variables, and fixing it will break saves, might i suggest changing the way the check for pushing info to the vault is done from "is exactly 4" to "is greater than 3"

<<elseif $player.items.bond is 4>>\

<<elseif $player.items.bond gt 3>>\

 

[ThatOneLurker]

So as I'm playing through for the first time in a few months, I'm definitely enjoying your rewrite of the first week. However, there are some spelling/word choices that seem to be jumping out at me for some reason, and thought I'd let you know. Great work on the game so far, thank you!

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[tpk]

Soooo, Photona wants to fuck us up in the good, yet dubious way . I knew this was the way it going to go down.

I'm hyped up about Umbralette

 

[fresh_L]

I belive I found a bug:

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I can send a save if needed

Also when talking about Family there are some errors:

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[Doctor Shark]

Not sure if this has been flagged (didn't find it on a search) but when hanging out with Prism and Kiara after getting Olivia's number, this will show up at the bottom sometimes

>>> Kingston is several inches taller than you and has the body of an athlete gone to seed. His broad torso is covered with a thin black turtleneck and his legs with comfortable-looking black slacks (Both of which look to be a size or two too small). He has heavy boots with what looks like reinforced toes. His dirty blonde hair is cut short to his head and his face is freshly free of stubble. He is wearing black sunglasses and a perpetual scowl on his lantern-jawed face. enjoys hanging out and feels slightly closer to you and Kiara.

I haven't met Kingston yet so not sure what's going on.

 

[Malleee]

Hmmmmmm, I always like more types of puzzles. Not sure about one that would be friendlier for visually impaired players. If anyone has any ideas, I'm down for it.

You could allow visually impaired players to change the font colour or background for those kinds of links at the start of play. They could pick colours they felt were appropriate even keeping something that allowed them to experience the test like a fully sighted person would. It could ruin the visual element of the puzzle for anyone looking to do so but, that it is their call to do so. For a colour blind person it would solve the issue... I'd guess that a text to speech program actually tells you it's a link already....

I think you can add image tags in a friendly manner by adding them like this : <img src="some image.png" alt="image description">

Not that this is an issue right now though.

 

[Malleee]

Bug when hanging out with crystal
If I ask the following I get weird results:
Talk about handcuffs - works fine
Talk about rope - brings up sensory depravation
Talk about blindfold - brings up a blank page..

I think this is just a numbering duplication on the text area... the buttons are 14 15 and 16 the text area is 14 14 and 15.

 

[Myscra]

<<if $player.items.Kbond lt 4>>\
<<set $player.items.Kbond to $player.items.Kbond+1>>\
@@.pow; >>> You learn a bit more about ''Bondage''@@
<<elseif $player.items.bond is 4>>\
@@.pow; >>> The knowledge transfer is complete and you have gained an in-depth knowledge of ''Bondage''@@
<<set $vltKnow.push("Bondage")>>\

... Is the bondage variable supposed to change names?

<<if $player.items.Kbond lt 4>>\
<<set $player.items.Kbond to $player.items.Kbond+1>>\
@@.pow; >>> You learn a bit more about ''Bondage''@@
<<elseif $player.items.bond is 4>>\
@@.pow; >>> The knowledge transfer is complete and you have gained an in-depth knowledge of ''Bondage''@@
<<set $vltKnow.push("Bondage")>>\

this appears to increment a variable called $player.items.Kbond but checks to see if the completion is based on $player.items.bond

I've poked around in the html and found a few other things of a similar nature, such as a variable with a space in the name that will break skill increments/checks for completion in regards to the knowledge vault entry.

If this is the current state of variables, and fixing it will break saves, might i suggest changing the way the check for pushing info to the vault is done from "is exactly 4" to "is greater than 3"

<<elseif $player.items.bond is 4>>\

<<elseif $player.items.bond gt 3>>\

Ah man, I thought I caught all these (I forgot to add the Kbond stuff until the last minute and rushed it. Thanks for the heads up). I went with the gt 3 suggestion.

So as I'm playing through for the first time in a few months, I'm definitely enjoying your rewrite of the first week. However, there are some spelling/word choices that seem to be jumping out at me for some reason, and thought I'd let you know. Great work on the game so far, thank you!

(Red for remove, Green for add)

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Thanks, These read a lot better. I think I tend to use Actually in place of Surprisingly, Its a bad habit.

Soooo, Photona wants to fuck us up in the good, yet dubious way . I knew this was the way it going to go down.

I'm hyped up about Umbralette

Lets say Photona has some issues
I am excited for Umbralette as well. I have an idea of where I'm going to take her but I'm going to see how the narrative evolves.

I belive I found a bug:

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I can send a save if needed

Also when talking about Family there are some errors:

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Yeah I messed up the numbers for those conversations, It's fixed now. Same for the error code, accidentally erased a line.

Not sure if this has been flagged (didn't find it on a search) but when hanging out with Prism and Kiara after getting Olivia's number, this will show up at the bottom sometimes I haven't met Kingston yet so not sure what's going on.

Its a byproduct of a short cut that has unforeseen errors. It should be fixed now.

Bug when hanging out with crystal
If I ask the following I get weird results:
Talk about handcuffs - works fine
Talk about rope - brings up sensory depravation
Talk about blindfold - brings up a blank page..

I think this is just a numbering duplication on the text area... the buttons are 14 15 and 16 the text area is 14 14 and 15.

Yeah, I messed up the numbering


Thanks for the Errors.

You could allow visually impaired players to change the font colour or background for those kinds of links at the start of play. They could pick colours they felt were appropriate even keeping something that allowed them to experience the test like a fully sighted person would. It could ruin the visual element of the puzzle for anyone looking to do so but, that it is their call to do so. For a colour blind person it would solve the issue... I'd guess that a text to speech program actually tells you it's a link already....

I think you can add image tags in a friendly manner by adding them like this : <img src="some image.png" alt="image description">

Not that this is an issue right now though.

Ill see what I can add to the options menu. Maybe also include a font change? Use a serif instead of san-serif (and vise versa) keep it subtle.

 

[Suknickar]

Ah man, I thought I caught all these (I forgot to add the Kbond stuff until the last minute and rushed it. Thanks for the heads up). I went with the gt 3 suggestion.

there are some places where things that claim to affect stats, don't actually affect said stats (ie: prism's stress after trust thing) it also seems to be possible to to cap a stat so that it can't be reduced. (again, prism.sts after the trust thing is an example, but i'm pretty sure i remember it happening with a few other stats during her minigame.)

also the comment that someone had about having the wrong name during a prism event happened to me too, iirc, withing three or 4 vists after the trust thing.

there were also a couple of wierd happenings with the stress relief potion of prism that makes me thing you may want to give that entire set of loops another look.

Since i wasn't sure you would actually see the comment i stopped keeping track of things like that and just edited the html to fix it where i could and went on about my day. the stress relief portion of the "pirsm minigame" was convoluted enough that i didn't attempt to do anything... oh, also, it's possible to get bondage to show up in your vault... as many times as you want.... so, the check(s) for that push don't seem to be set up right...



also, and this doesn't have anything to do with bugs in the game, but i noticed that you switch conventions for variable changes
set $player.stat = $player.stat + 4
vs
set $player.stat+=4 (or set $player.stat += 4)

using the condenced $player.stat+=4 saves the most characters and with how many times it gets used may be the best choice to find/replace all with... unless you want to rip it all out and make it into a function. (I do not recommend making it a function at this point in development)

 

[Malleee]

Ill see what I can add to the options menu. Maybe also include a font change? Use a serif instead of san-serif (and vise versa) keep it subtle.

You'd want a test display so they could see what they are doing to themselves

 

[Suknickar]

Also, another thing that i noticed, when expecting a visit from prism the next morning, if you visit kiara in dream world, it fails to trigger the prism visit, so it seems like something in the kiara scene is breaking the prism even trigger.

 

[Myscra]

there are some places where things that claim to affect stats, don't actually affect said stats (ie: prism's stress after trust thing) it also seems to be possible to to cap a stat so that it can't be reduced. (again, prism.sts after the trust thing is an example, but i'm pretty sure i remember it happening with a few other stats during her minigame.)

also the comment that someone had about having the wrong name during a prism event happened to me too, iirc, withing three or 4 vists after the trust thing.

there were also a couple of wierd happenings with the stress relief potion of prism that makes me thing you may want to give that entire set of loops another look.

Since i wasn't sure you would actually see the comment i stopped keeping track of things like that and just edited the html to fix it where i could and went on about my day. the stress relief portion of the "pirsm minigame" was convoluted enough that i didn't attempt to do anything... oh, also, it's possible to get bondage to show up in your vault... as many times as you want.... so, the check(s) for that push don't seem to be set up right...

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also, and this doesn't have anything to do with bugs in the game, but i noticed that you switch conventions for variable changes
set $player.stat = $player.stat + 4
vs
set $player.stat+=4 (or set $player.stat += 4)

using the condenced $player.stat+=4 saves the most characters and with how many times it gets used may be the best choice to find/replace all with... unless you want to rip it all out and make it into a function. (I do not recommend making it a function at this point in development).

I'll go through the Prism's stuff to make sure all the stat changes are working as they should. For some reason, I've had more issues with her stats then any of the other characters. Which stress relief portion do you mean (It's a bit late so my brain may not be working right now and I'm not sure what you mean). I will also double check the Bondage knowledge thing to make sure it can't be added twice.

As for the convention change. I didn't know about the condensed version until several versions after I started. I've mentioned it before, I am not a great coder.

You'd want a test display so they could see what they are doing to themselves

That is a good idea. I might add in a whole visual section with a test paragraph, different bg colors, etc.