devnotes
On one side, Rudy and Cyrus are playing cards.
Cyrus: Got any 3s?
Rudy: go fish
Begin devnotes.
- day1: Game, characters, and world introduced.
- Scene transitions choppy.
- Only one option for tutorial guide.
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On the other side, Kade isn’t thrilled with this predicament. But Val seems all too thrilled.
Kade: wow! whaddaya know. there’s nothing here.
Val: Sounded like some pretty stable worldbuilding, though, didn’t it?
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- day2: Player can now choose a game helper.
- Regardless of previous day’s opinions, $joker returns.
- Bonus scene referred to but easily missed.
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Rudy: 4s?
Cyrus: Ah, last card. Congratulations.
Kade: worldbuildi—oh yeah, sure, let’s just play pretend forever and never edit a single file, that’s foolproof! Weren’t you supposed to be scared of ~the endless void~ anyway?
Val: That was ONE time. Besides, Rudy and Cyrus walked in here just fine!
Val is grinning. Kade is not.
Kade: and? if everyone took a stroll off a cliff, would y-actually don’t answer that.
Val: Sure would!
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- day3: Inventory demonstration.
- Unused items appear in assets.
- Uncoded expressions used during first half of scene1.
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Cyrus looks over from across the page.
Cyrus: Oh, erm, pardon me, but do any of you hear something?
Val: I mean, if even YOU jumped—
Kade, interrupting: anyway, great. now the void wall is an actual hole and we die falling down it forever.
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- day4: Bad end.
- Minigame progresses without player’s involvement.
- Game crashes & resets after Kade dies.
- day5: Unused files displayed.
- Unable to load $joker or Kade.
- Internal memories corrupted.
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Val is taken off-guard by Kade’s comment. Kade is detached as ever.
Val: Wh-Why would we
Kade: i mean if this never ends we might as well be dead to the w Rudy, interrupting: YO CHATTERBOXES
Rudy shoves past Cyrus, yelling over.
Cyrus, muttering: Rudy…
- day6: Script overwritten.
- Intermittent sprite errors.
- Game crashes if player doesn’t quit before physicality test.
Rudy: you hearin anything weird or is it just cyrus?
Val, to herself: This isn’t the same, though, is it? We’re still interacting.
Kade: uh, all i’ve noticed is us talking. why are you two upside-down?
Cyrus: I was going to ask the same of you, actually.
It’s not clear who’s right-side-up and upside-down. Considering they’re in a void, it never has been.
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- day7: Clickthrough exploration.
- Game backgrounds modified.
- bonus/day2 played but overwritten; otherwise, progression remains linear.
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Kade and Cyrus exchange a look. Neither of them have a single clue what’s going on anymore.
