I've been in Vancouver for the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference for the past week and have returned to far more playability in the WikiGame demo than I could ever have dreamed of. Thanks to DennisChow, designer-turned-coder who's taken the lead in the weeks since MichaelBruntonSpall's laptop blew up (commiserations, Michael!).
The demo is still very rough around the edges, but players can now explore the Church, the train station and the toilets. You can solve several puzzles too! Even better, at the good DennisChow's suggestion, you can continue to help us write the thing!
We have a selection of objects which only require one or two sentences of description each. We'd absolutely love it if you'd contribute by adding in your descriptions of one or more of 'em! If you're so inclined and have a moment or two to spare, the list continues over the fold, or you can add your descriptions to the wiki here.
- landscape paintings (in the church)
- church pulpit (clearly in the church)
- mounted deer's head (in the pub)
- sticky blob of gum (in the pub)
- railway ticket turnstiles (in the train station)
- national rail uniform (in the train station)
- burly guard's uniform (outside the train station)
- sagging houseplant (in the ticket office)
- a banana skin (in the bin)
- an empty can of spam (in the bin)
- a shattered egg (bin)
- old newspapers (bin - headlines and copy ideas are great!)
- an empty pop bottle (bin)
- 2 hypodermic syringes (bin)
- a rather rude novelty hand (bin)
- child's retainer (bin)
