Release 6 (final major one hopefully)


I intended to push this through before 2025, but things got in the way.

Still, I feel it's a very good maintenance release, fixing some bugs I always worried about and using the very helpful transcripts of DemonApologist and Tabitha and Wolfbiter on intfiction.org. I'm grateful for this help as at least the first two people write very different stuff from me but have still been encouraging despite some bugs that make me cringe.

Fixes.txt lists the main changes. The big one, technically, is one that came as a result of someone just poking around after finding another bug. It gave a clue if you got half of an already-solved puzzle, which must've been confusing. It was a one- or two-line fix, too.

Old: if my-count is 2 and there is a wfull entry:

New: if my-count is 2 and idid entry is false and there is a wfull entry:

So it has the virtue of being readable and intuitive, even if I feel silly I overlooked it in the first place.

It's not in WP's GitHub repo, as it's some core code used originally by Roads of Liches.

Other than that, the transcripts  exposed some things where I tried to skate by or even encouraged me to be a bit more lenient with solutions, because it simplified things on both ends without dumbing them down. For instance, allowing a plural, or allowing the "proper" pronunciation of the name and not a slangy one.

Oh, there's some new flavor text at the end. In fact, thinking it up is part of what slowly brought me back to the update. It made me laugh.

If you've played it before, spoilers are in this GitHub commit.

There may be another release -- I didn't do a full runthrough to add new test cases, and I might add more funny random text if I get 28 new ones (8 companions, 8-choose-2 pairs, and I have everyone talk to everyone in a chunk.) Also, if you want to see all the random chatter without replaying, this file has the goods.

Files

Walkthrough 8.3 kB
Oct 18, 2024
Map (PNG format, spoilers) 19 kB
Aug 26, 2024
Logic map (warning: big spoilers!) 30 kB
Oct 18, 2024
web-why-pout-6.zip Play in browser
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why-pout-6.zip 711 kB
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fixes.txt 6.6 kB
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ZBlorb binary, release 5.0 411 kB
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