{"id":4227,"date":"2023-10-18T23:58:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T23:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?page_id=4227"},"modified":"2023-10-19T01:44:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T01:44:57","slug":"crystal-castles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?page_id=4227","title":{"rendered":"1 – Crystal Castles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Put-Peep(tm)<\/strong> began with a story and a setting. The setting is a tiny version of one of the offices I’ve worked in over the years. There are some real things, though referred to vaguely. Games I’ve really <\/em>worked on are only mentioned in the Meet the Author<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n

Featured very prominently is a Crystal Castles<\/strong> arcade cabinet. A long time ago, a bunch of us chipped in to buy the cabinet, and since I was the last person left at the company who bought in, it is now mine. When we moved into a newly renovated office, I was told there was no room for it, so I left it with others at the old office. Recently those colleagues had to move office, and wanted to know if I still wanted it. Of course I did. However it had stopped working. I will have to fix it, but I rented a van and had it moved to my garage where it is covered in blankets right now, waiting for me to find someone who can fix it.<\/p>\n

The last I saw of it working, its screen was wonky, but it was still trying to play properly. So it shouldn’t be hard to fix.<\/p>\n

So in this game (story) the Crystal Castles cabinet is in one of the meeting rooms. It’s off when you start the game, but you can turn it on and play it.<\/p>\n

When you play it, you see a brief description of a play session. Randomly, one in 20 plays (which are all described the same) you will see a * appear in the description. These are Asides, which, if you type >* you will see an Aside about Polybius, the mythical arcade cabinet.<\/p>\n

There is also a 1% chance you’ll win the game when you play.<\/p>\n

And when you successfully complete the Red Chamber room, if you play again, you will<\/strong> win. After all, you’ve been rewarded. Right?<\/p>\n

This is a developer blog so I will put spoilers here. Kinda hard to write a dev diary without spoiling the game.<\/p>\n

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