Critic on a back(updated...)

Ryan Timothy B · Fri 18/04/2008 03:06:57

Dualnames, sure. It depends on what style you're looking for (I know I'm just drawing it to allow you to see what it should look like), but I've noticed the one image you have the mattress laying on the ground and the other is slumped on the wall. Whichever way you're planning on having this mattress in-game, I'd like to draw it that way.

(I almost like it slumped against the wall. Up to you though, let me know.)

Dualnames · Fri 18/04/2008 20:20:27

Up to the wall.

miguel · Fri 18/04/2008 20:37:52

Didn't know you wanted the matress up the wall

, I've put it on the floor because there wasn't any space after I changed the food dispenser!

yukonhorror · Wed 23/04/2008 23:39:43

I am assuming this is the vogon hold.

From a technical POV I need to say some things , but I think it consistent with the rest of the style of the game (so that's good)

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Which one is the babel fish machine and which is the machine with the keyboard and the atomic plotter? Also, where is the hole in the wall and the panel where the robot goes to. They don't seem obvious if they are there. Since they are the main keys to solving this horrifically difficult puzzle, it would be nice if they sort of stood out. Just a thought. Also, I would put the grate somewhere near the hole, what way it can slide down the gown into it. The grate seemed far from the hook, so it would be a stretch for it to roll into it.

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Dualnames · Sun 27/04/2008 15:30:23

Actually all is done in their correct places. And the panel isn;t obvious in purpose. It is quite obvious how all of it works and how can you solve the puzzle when you use the dispenser for the first time. The plotter is on the right. The babel fish on the left. The water i think makes it a dead give away. Actually the grate will work pretty fine to where it is..

I will make a video and show you how the babel fish puzzle works.
They lights are placed mostly in order to show where to look.

S · Mon 28/04/2008 16:36:57

This is the puzzle that prevented me from ever finishing the original text-based HHGTTG. It's supposed to be bloody unfair and horrible. So there.

Dualnames · Mon 28/04/2008 18:46:45

I consider it to be quite logical on this HHGTG since you get to see more apparently..

yukonhorror · Tue 29/04/2008 20:35:56

Quote from: S on Mon 28/04/2008 16:36:57
This is the puzzle that prevented me from ever finishing the original text-based HHGTTG. It's supposed to be bloody unfair and horrible. So there.

Interesting enough, there are shirts that say, "I solved the babel fish puzzle." Also, Infocom, Douglas Adams and the programmer (can't remember his name) originally dubbed the game as only moderately difficult. Which is funny, cause it is bloody difficult.

Solution hint

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If you read the text closely in a step-by-step fashion, it is sort of clear. Maybe it is clear, cause I played it so many damn times to get the scripting, but there are a couple of obstacle, but only one way to solve them.

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