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Becky - 12 July 2016 10:05 AM

I printed one up, cut up the pieces and am trying to fit them together. It’s surprisingly difficult.

Alternatively, you could use an image editing program and the rectangle selection tool to copy and paste it back together.

I deliberately used rectangles so this would be an option when people got desperate.

D - 12 July 2016 10:19 AM

If only somebody would make an adventure game that requires learning programming to finish it. I could kill two birds with one stone then…

There are a few!

Lists and Lists is a free text adventure that teaches you Scheme (it’s a language similar to Lisp) - probably this one’s better suited to someone who already knows how to program and wants a taste of a new language, but maybe that’s just me:
http://eblong.com/zarf/if.html#lists

else Heart.Break() is a more recent open world adventure in which you can learn a BASIC-like language, start by programming computers in the game and end up reprogramming the world:
http://elseheartbreak.com/

There have been a number of interesting games based around programming lately - TIS-100 and Human Resource Machine spring to mind - though they’re more puzzle games rather than adventures, and focus on the fiddly lower-level stuff. Human Resource Machine is the more beginner-friendly of the two.

Of course if you turn the problem around and become obsessed with making adventure games rather than playing them, you’ll be a programmer before you know it!

Phlebas - 12 July 2016 10:51 AM

D - 12 July 2016 10:19 AM

If only somebody would make an adventure game that requires learning programming to finish it. I could kill two birds with one stone then…

There are a few!

Lists and Lists is a free text adventure that teaches you Scheme (it’s a language similar to Lisp) - probably this one’s better suited to someone who already knows how to program and wants a taste of a new language, but maybe that’s just me:
http://eblong.com/zarf/if.html#lists

else Heart.Break() is a more recent open world adventure in which you can learn a BASIC-like language, start by programming computers in the game and end up reprogramming the world:
http://elseheartbreak.com/

There have been a number of interesting games based around programming lately - TIS-100 and Human Resource Machine spring to mind - though they’re more puzzle games rather than adventures, and focus on the fiddly lower-level stuff. Human Resource Machine is the more beginner-friendly of the two.

Of course if you turn the problem around and become obsessed with making adventure games rather than playing them, you’ll be a programmer before you know it!

And Quadrilateral Cowboy just around the corner

Phlebas - 12 July 2016 10:51 AM

There are a few!

Thanks for the recommendations. I might give else Heart.Break() a try since its available on GOG.com for Linux.

Advie - 12 July 2016 11:40 AM

O.T
so Basitch you think are man enough to wear such dress, eh?

Not me personally, but that’s Ladybeard, one of the singers in the band LadyBaby.

Check it out:

or

I find the combination of cross-dressing, heavy metal and J-Pop to be utterly hilarious. I don’t smile very often, but those videos certainly do the trick…

D - 12 July 2016 10:22 AM

Becky - 12 July 2016 10:05 AM

I printed one up, cut up the pieces and am trying to fit them together. It’s surprisingly difficult.

Alternatively, you could use an image editing program and the rectangle selection tool to copy and paste it back together.

I deliberately used rectangles so this would be an option when people got desperate.

I’ve got a program that would do that but I think it would probably be just as easy to use Becky’s method which seems fun ...maybe! 

If the remaining 2 pictures aren’t guessed by 2PM UTC Friday, I will post second, easier shots for them then.

The competition is getting fierce at the top and eddyc snagged shot #20 and the lead for now, leaving only one left that hasn’t been guessed…

Here is the 2nd shot for #17: