DrBrainRedux

[Zharmad]

DrBrainRedux
STATUS: PENDING APPROVAL

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[Fost]

Wow! This is pretty bonkers! I can see it's going to take a while for me to play through.

Love the intro - very cinematic

[Zharmad]

Thanks. I'm trying to script the bells and whistles at the moment.

Only problem is that a few areas are a bit dangerous for me to freeze Asimov and start a conversation.

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Hey, I'm wondering if I should add some scripts for hints?

[Crussh]

Im stuck in the room with water, ive found a blue passkey but i still cant find any way past the water.

[Sergenth]

Either I've forgotten how to download adventures, or this one isn't showing up in my list. And I approved it accidentally, hoping that it would allow me to download it...

[Blizgerg]

[Fost]

[Blizgerg]

[Crussh]

Im still stuck at the water room, can someone give me a hint?

EDIT: found a red passkey and lowered the water but im still stuck at the water room

[Zharmad]

Sorry guys, I've been away for a while.

You're stuck at the south room right? My laptop is still packed away in the car so I can't get with the details, however...

About the South room that's filled with water and getting started:
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To clear the coolant from the south room, you'll need to activate a total of 4 pumping stations. The red key gives access to the first station across the corridor from the two engineers. This will alllow you to clear the stairs to the line of crates without taking damage and will also change the conversation thread somewhat if you haven't entered the water room yet

And after the above clue:
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You can get to another two pumping stations from the line of crates. The jumping is precise, but you can make it. I had to make the jumps with the mouse because my laptop keyboard only takes 2-3 keys at once. The second station you meet is relatively simple, while the third one below is more challenging. Note you can actually activate this second station without activating the first one, though you'll need both of them for the third.

About the blue passkeys:
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The blue passkey should give you access through the western set of rooms I named Mirrormirror. You won't need the blue key beyond those rooms, I think. There is an optional puzzle in the ducts at the end, as well as the Devil's Marbles which houses the fourth station. Come to think of it, you'll need the blue key for the Marbles.

Basically, you'll need to clear the water to get to each of the rooms in turn. I've made it a bit more linear in that you'll have to get to the last two stations in sequence. So I think I'll be giving some more clues from Eve about where to go.

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I have made maybe six secret teleports so far. I didn't really want to give you shortcuts across the deck,.but the teleports do lead you to someplace nicer. If you find a yellow key, I'm using them for the bonus rooms in the second room group.

EDIT: If you need to know, the room MirrorMirror2 has side exits, one of which leads to the Marbles. The room and/or its antechamber will be flooded, however, if you don't have the other 3 stations online.

[Blizgerg]

I found a typo in the lua script for room SPump4 on line 31.

[Zharmad]

Okay, that's a bugfix. Ironically, it's one of the few rooms I didn't check over on my last run through before 0.2.

I will upload a new version soon.

EDIT: Hey Fost, I encountered some kind of error with the v0.3 update but it now shows v0.3 and I don't know if it worked. Sorry I didn't scribe the error down, because I simply tried the upload button again. <- which told me the system had 0.3 already. Should I just make a 0.4?

[Zharmad]

Hey everyone... is there any feedback so far whether this is too difficult or anything else?

I don't know what to make of it myself so I haven't made any new rooms yet past the upload. Should I (if I ever get around to this) try to implement guided hints in-game?

[Blizgerg]

I have spent over an hour trying to do SPump4... I seem to need to solve this room to go any further. I find it a bit to frustrating, it makes me want to quit and stop playing the adventure. The problem I am having is that center switch on the three switches at the bottom. I can't get the steel ball to make that switch go down. I only got it to line up once but then I messed up the other switches and had to start over. You may want to give a hint or make it a little bit easier or something.

Other than that I have found what I have seen so far fun. Although it looks as though I have only seen about half the adventure. Playing this has given me a lot of ideas too.

[Zharmad]

Hmmm... I'll think about tweaking that. Will do one of three things...

One: Make it a bonus puzzle. It's a matter of adjusting the height and adding an extra door to make the bonus 'worthwhile'.

Two: Remove the center switch, or at least fix up the room so that it's easy to get to.

Three: Explain that you figure out the way to roll the ball directly onto that middle switch. The rolling direction of the ball must be downslope. Will look at the puzzle again.

EDIT: Okay, looked at the puzzle. The trick is with the south-scrolling conveyors directly uphill from the switches. You want to have the ball here, rolling north against the conveyor direction so that you have ample time to put yourself above the ball and push it down-slope again. As long as the balls roll downslope you won't have to worry about it not holding the switch down properly - there is room to aim for the center switch.

I can draw a diagram later if people want.

What I've also done is to make the conveyers just slightly easier so that every marble can be used (for at least some switches). Haven't uploaded this version yet.

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If you get to SB1D before I upload the next patch, I apologise in advance. The conversation will get annoying AND I myself stuff it up more than 9 in 10 when doing the room properly.