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diego - 03 February 2013 08:51 PM

(yeap, I quickly started Squish’s emp-tel uh, I mean, case BTW, I’d like to hear Josh’s, Jim’s and others opinion about order of things, because somehow I presumed Squish should be done first as he was standing there in front of you waiting for you to click him after solving the quiz.

So, I presume you won’t follow the playthrough after all? My instructions were crystal-clear: Speak with Callahan to take the quest to Pyotr after the contest.

Sefir - 03 February 2013 12:21 PM

TimovieMan - 03 February 2013 12:08 PM

Have you tried talking to Doc after solving the contest? He can give you a few more to solve (although I have to say that they’re a LOT more obscure - I had never heard of the first one)...

Yes, I was about to ask if anyone managed to solve any of these… (not me!)

I was too afraid of asking him about more riddles. Didn’t want to ruin my sense of achievement.

So far the game is really funny. I’m in front of Pyotr’s house and already had a nice chat with a crate and the door.

Still at the quiz, number 8 is destroying me… Tried all the famous ones I would remember from the theme but couldn’t get it…

8. Correct; Ancient Game; Bouillon; Funeral transport.

I’m thinking:

[spoiler]Right ; no idea ; Soup / broth ; hearse[/spoiler]  

Am I completely wrong? Any advice?

wilco - 04 February 2013 05:57 AM

Still at the quiz, number 8 is destroying me… Tried all the famous ones I would remember from the theme but couldn’t get it…

8. Correct; Ancient Game; Bouillon; Funeral transport.

I’m thinking:

[spoiler]Right ; no idea ; Soup / broth ; hearse[/spoiler]  

Am I completely wrong? Any advice?

From what I see, you are doing very well. Remember: It can always be something you have never heard of. Google is your friend.
(Trying and spelling in once what you found is sometimes very helpful…)
Small Tip 2:The ancient game is a well known one

Sefir - 02 February 2013 08:54 AM

Cool!! Is it possible to post some of these story concepts in the thread? Perhaps one on each time we finish a chapter like a “player’s reward”?

Unfortunately, putting my hands on the actual text of those story concepts would be tough. They’ve gone back and forth the country a couple of times since then, and been in a flood. But I do remember that the story that I was working on was Doc’s origin story, and that was what Spider was working on, too.

I also remember what the polarizing story was, that Legend declined. I’ll post about that after a chapter!

diego - 03 February 2013 08:51 PM

BTW, I’d like to hear Josh’s, Jim’s and others opinion about order of things, because somehow I presumed Squish should be done first as he was standing there in front of you waiting for you to click him after solving the quiz Even though it’s likely to guess that the game is non-linear in that regard)

From my perspective, anyway, there was no special order. If anything (and I think this was just based on the order in which I wrote the stories), I tended to think of the order of the first three stories “Josie, Pyotr, Squish,” because I saw Squish’s story as the toughest of the three, and Josie’s and Pyotr’s stories as much more conventional from a gameplay standpoint, and thus more “introductory.”

I can definitely say that there was no consideration of the order based on the artwork. I didn’t tell the artists (who were all off-site) anything about the order of the stories, their relative difficulties, or anything like that; I wanted the characters’ placement to appear truly random. In fact, they may very well not have known which characters were going to have stories, and which were not.

Lady Kestrel - 03 February 2013 10:39 PM

Oh, such lovely puns! I have spent the past hour just clicking on things to hear/read the comments.

And that’s exactly the reason I gave two weeks time for each chapter.
Glad you liked it.

Sefir - 04 February 2013 06:04 AM

 

From what I see, you are doing very well. Remember: It can always be something you have never heard of. Google is your friend.
(Trying and spelling in once what you found is sometimes very helpful…)
Small Tip 2:The ancient game is a well known one

Got it!

Ended up googling Famous rock and roll brothers because of the final two words but it was a bit of cheating…

On to Pyotr!

Number 10 accepted Doobie Brothers for me.

TimovieMan - 04 February 2013 03:49 PM

Christ, this has to be the funniest game I’ve played since my first playthrough of Phoenix Wright. Or maybe even as far back as Curse of Monkey Island! The puns! THE PUNS!!!

I did warn you that it’s the funniest game ever made, did I?

I like to ask Josho and/or Jim Montanus if it ever was a worry that players might not be able to solve the quiz and just give up on the game? I enjoyed it, but without google I don’t think I would have found a single answer.
Was internet research already expected in 1997? Or did you assume the game would not be played outside the US? (and for that matter: is the quiz easy for native English speakers?)