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The rooms in this game are really small, so I had to chop off a bit of the screenshot not to reveal the main character(s).

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Must be sleep deprivation because for a second I thought you were asking me a genuine question

Where is she??!

She's at home self-isolating. Where do you think she is? 

I hope she is instead of, say, wandering about without a facemask.

I am definitely going to give that one a go when I have a little bit of free time

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Must be sleep deprivation because for a second I thought you were asking me a genuine question

No, but it's also based on a cartoon character.

I remember being disappointed with how easy that game was Anyone?

It's a Peter Molyneux game.

I remembered from first reviews of the game that all the credit went to one person and for some reason I assumed it was Sid Meyer.

Coca-Cola?

Correct. Over to you.

Isn't that a Sid Meyer's game, Black and White?

Nope. but the factory was a of a very popular brand.

Ok, so here goes.

Gbadolite. A small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country, which he will later (to be exact, in 1971) rename Zaire, is being seized by Mobutu Sese Seko. Henceforth, the tyranny lasting 32 years begins. Mobutu becomes well-known for embezzling billions of dollars, staging public executions, torturing dissidents, and shutting down trade unions. He also becomes the owner of a luxurious residence, also called the “Versailles of the Jungle,” just outside Gbadolite, the village of mud huts. What could we find in Mobutu’s Versailles? Schools, hospitals, well-appointed homes, a five-star hotel, three large palaces (of which one was made up of Chinese pagodas), and a factory…

Now, here’s the question. What factory Mobutu establishes in his luxurious district, too?

Is that a GameBoy game? Or is it from the thingy arj0n is currently making a port from (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=58935.0)?

Just to let you guys know that I haven't forgotten about this thread I have no free time whatsoever, but will try to post sth tomorrow (tops).

Correct!

I used to love that game!

Same here. I remember that back then the title was a real mystery to me and my friends, so we would simply call it "A Game of Life".

I am guessing this one might be easy:

Laika? Whatever the name was, it still terrifies me to think about it...

I've always wanted to play it, but I heard it's really hard. Like, even the watch in the bottom right-hand corner matters, as apparently you need to do certain actions at the specific time.

I'll post a new game tomorrow.

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I've been meaning to do the same but you were faster : )

Isn't that KGB?

Oh, I see what you guys mean -  I will give it a bash. Thanks for the tip!

I feel like this question might have been already asked on the forums, but I am struggling finding the answer to it.

Where I can filter the parser input before it gets displayed in the TextBox? I want to check if the key pressed by the player isn't a letter.

I tried checking the last char from the TextBox in repeatedly_execute_always() and removing it if necessary, but this still shows the letter for a split of a second.

Thanks

Looks really interesting. Given it's a side project, this is a very specific completion date

Best of luck with development.

FormosaFalanster, thank you very much for your kind words! Especially for

I also have a lot of respect for people who use a game as a medium to communicate their culture!

, as this is exactly what we wanted to do. The idea was not to be pushy or preachy but simply to show something that... I don't know... we know from our own experience and that is uncommon in the mainstream. I am not quite sure why I am "obsessed" with blocks... I think living on the 10-th floor as a child must have had some impact on me.

I would advise you make a longer game using that kind of art style and maybe even the premise of turning a grim Polish suburb into a magical land!

You just reminded me that a very (very very) long time ago I drafted an epic semi-fantasy story set in a block-ridden suburb. I think the main vilian (a dark king of some sort) was supposed to be a ring-leader of local football hooligans I wonder if I still have it somewhere. As for the art-style me and my wife have recently been watching a lot of Brandon James Greer's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u535Rr4KJM&t=114s&ab_channel=BrandonJamesGreer) vidoes, so who knows - maybe we will come back to it one day. In the meantime, though, you may try out the demo of Absurdistan. The art-style is completelly different but it's set in a universe very similar to the one of the Jaruzelski era

PS I used to live in LIthuania where I was introduced to the Romuva gods of the Balts, the thunder god is there called Perkunas so it is almost the same name, interesting right?

I am not an expert on the topic, but this sounds like the same (or very similar) deity

Hi all,

Here is a short update on the situation with my game:

Absurdistan is far from being dead After finishing the demo I had to take a short break due to new family commitments, but since late January I have been slowly getting momentum again.

Nevertheless, it's still a long way before the game is finished, but I believe that thanks to the following it should be much easier now:

- after having come back to the game, I was surprised how robust and reusable the interface seemed to be, so I hope I will be able to focus more on making the further content and not on core functionalities;

- most of (well, all but one) gui/panel puzzles have been successfully coded and now are ready to be ported over;

- the whole game is planned out, so unless I come up with one of those turning everything upside-down ideas, it should be a matter of following my notes;

- all rooms, objects, and characters are drawn (some characters need additional animations, though);

So yeah... probably I am making it sound a little bit easier than it is, but I want to believe it will be a pretty straight-forward process (I know it won't...).

I am not going to lie: the biggest mistake I made is going solo for such a long game, but having gone this far I don't want to give up.

When working on post-demo parts of the game, I've been thinking about breaking the game into chapters, but due to its nature that won't be possible. So, what I may do instead is release at some point an extended version of the demo (for those who played the original demo I may add a cheatcode of some sort to skip to the new parts) and then take another break.

Edit: I've removed concept art, because due to lack of time I had to cut them out from the game.