Hey everyone, if you release a game for the Heart of the OHR, please remember to mention it here. This should be obvious, but I still see games popping up on the game list from time to time that may be new, or they may be updates to older games, or they may be small games good for just a few minutes, etc. and no one says anything about them, and I don't know if they're supposed to be in the contest, even though they look like they might be. It'll save me time in December if I know ahead of time which ones are meant for Heart of the OHR and don't have to put on my investigator's hat to get my answers.
To be clear, I'm not asking which game you plan to release for HotOHR. I'm asking you which game(s) you've already released for HotOHR.
Thanks. Hope your entries are going well.
I'm still finalizing the Convenience Functions pack I've been promising since this summer. But every time I think I'm ready or close to it, I notice something else is missing that should be present, so I go back and add it in. My latest additions have brought the pack to just about 400 functions.
If you don't know anything about the Convenience Functions pack, it's essentially a series of commands commonly used together rolled up into singular functions. So, for example, instead of writing:
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show text box (text)
wait for text box (text)
You'll be able to write:
and accomplish the same thing.
Likewise, instead of writing:
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walk hero (0, east, 3)
wait for hero (0)
You'll be able to write:
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walk hero and wait (0, east, 3)
And so on. It'll also have a few complicated actions made simpler, like moonwalking, having more realistic npc conversations, adjusting the values of many functions at once (like stopping a list of timers, sound effects, walking a certain distance, etc.), and so on. But its purpose is to condense code while speeding up the design process. You know, the kind of thing that would've been more useful back in May.
But really, it's almost done. I'm pretty sure.
Finally, if you've lost track of time, there's about three months left to get your entries finished.