It's design crunch time on Spaceship!, the gamesblog's wikigame project. In less than a fortnight, the coders will get their mitts on the key components of the text adventure - the puzzles, the locations, and the puzzle objects - and all this week we are appealing for your assistance!
Every day this week, we'll be posting up two links to two of the rooms we've got to describe before the programmers can get started. Each room needs a few sentences explaining what the player sees when she or he enters that room. For example, I've described the Kitchen thus:
The dingy kitchen is approximately 3 metres x 4 metres wide, and would be cozy when the whole crew is on call, but it's nice and roomy when you're on your own. It looks like it was decorated circa 1984, with unattractive korma-coloured cupboard doors and faux tile lino on the floor. You can see vermin footprints in the flour that's fallen off one of the pantry shelves.
There are various industrial appliances lining the worktop that look like they've not seen a wash in several light years. Which is strange, as the sink is less than a metre away, on the starboard wall. On the island in the middle of the room are the leftovers from your last noodle fix sitting on a battered kitchen tray. The bin, next to the refrigerator, overfloweth.
Yes, that's what my kitchen looked like before I remodeled. It was truly disgusting. And now the horror has been permanently captured for eternity in Spaceship!. How proud I am.
Today's locations are the Escape Pod and the Rec Room. What in the world does the player see upon entering these two locations?
The Escape Pod is integral in one of the winning puzzles from our Puzzle Design Competition. All we know about is is that the Escape Pod's control system is covered in multi-coloured buttons, knobs and switches. What does the rest of it look like? Add your thoughts here. Click the link and type away!
The Rec Room is a tabula rasa. Are there arcade machines? A pool table? An Xbox 1080 with Rock Band 5 peripherals? A pop machine? A jukebox? A shuffleboard alley? What's your dream recreation area? Add your thoughts here. Just click the link and type away!
Tomorrow we'll be bringing you two new locations for your creative pleasure.
