[Squinky]

(copy-pasted from my blag)

Today, my captive audience, you are all in for a real treat, for I have finished my first-ever one room game using the Lassie engine! It’s called “When We Were Kids”, and you play a little girl who’s just gotten her beloved handheld gaming system stolen by the school bully. It’s also my first real attempt at creating an adventure game puzzle with multiple solutions. And it’s completely playable from within your web browser. So, check it out already. It’ll only take a few minutes of your precious time, after all.

[samIamsad]

Originally Posted by Squinks

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No sound or is it my machine?

So, anyway. I found two ways to reach the end:

Spoiler:

1) I threatened to destroy the castle with the metre stick I took when Mr. Jeans wasn't lookin'.
2) I built this fine piece of art combining all kinds of inventory objects to trade.

Yet, after starting anew to try out yet another approach (like talking Morgan out of it, if that even works**), he's just standin' there after the dialogue in the beginning, no handheld in his hands, nothing*. Upon trying to talk to him, I get the

Spoiler:

"Hello inanimate object, at least you'll listen to me."

greeting lines. Very Squink-ish, might I say. The lines, not the bug! Jeeeeeeez. Full game, Vista patch and a soundtrack next?


* Aaaah, this seems to occur if you bypass the short opening sequence by frantic left-clicking. Kinda like I did.

**

Spoiler:

It worked!

[LeisureSuitedLooney]

lol, that was cute.

[JohnGreenArt]

Neat! You should post about this in the Lassie forums.

The engine does still have some bugs that are being tweaked.

[Squinky]

Thanks for the nice feedback, guys! Like John said, there are still a few bugs in the engine, but I managed to make do with what I could for now.

Originally Posted by samIamsad

No sound or is it my machine?

No sound this time. I had a little tune I was going to use, but couldn't get looping background music to work properly. Hence, the game is silent.

Originally Posted by JohnGreenArt

Neat! You should post about this in the Lassie forums.

Just did.

[stepurhan]

Don't seem to be able to pick up anything. Is there some way of changing cursors? The old standby of right-clicking just calls up the Flash control menu.

[Trumgottist]

Hold the mouse button down and a menu will pop up after a while.

[stepurhan]

Originally Posted by Trumgottist

Hold the mouse button down and a menu will pop up after a while.

Excellent. Thanks for that Trumgottist.

I got a third ending.

Spoiler:

Bugging Morgan about how rubbish she is at the game until she goes off in a temper

Is three the lot or should we all keep replaying? I might have to do that anyway to check out all the dialogue. I especially liked the line.

Originally Posted by Character talking to castle

I command you to self-destruct!

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by stepurhan

Is three the lot or should we all keep replaying?

There's just one more, and it's pretty simple to find, particularly if you exhaust all the dialogue lines.

[SSH]

How do you combine inventory items?

[JohnGreenArt]

Originally Posted by SSH

How do you combine inventory items?

Click on an inventory item (cursor should switch to that item) and then click it on the inventory item you want to combine it with.

[stepurhan]

Originally Posted by Squinky

There's just one more, and it's pretty simple to find, particularly if you exhaust all the dialogue lines.

Well that sounded like a challenge so here it is.

Solution No 4

Spoiler:

Because it has my germs all over it. Ewwwwww!!!

Actually I almost got this one last time.

Nice job Squinky. Small but well put together. Only one thing is confusing me. Who is this Deirdra Kiai person?

[Squinky]

Originally Posted by stepurhan

Who is this Deirdra Kiai person?

Deirdra Kiai is an entity who lives tied up inside the great recesses of my head. She writes games and AG reviews and does all my homework for me.

[tsa]

Nice game Squinky. I especially liked this solution:

Spoiler:

Combine four inventory items to make a 'sculpture'

[rlpw]

Why do I smell Hydrogen Sulfide?