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A jam submission

THE HEADLESS CHICKEN INCIDENT: A short interactive REPUNK storyView game page

An unforgettable Tuesday on Mars
Submitted by almar (@repunkgame) — 1 day, 7 hours before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Should this game win the People's Prize?#42.0002.000

Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team name
Chickeneers

Game title
THE HEADLESS CHICKEN INCIDENT

Scripto usage
The game description contains all this info, but in short:

1. except the game over screen, everything is controlled via scripto.
2. custom js mini framework + scripto json line data files.
3. implemented custom commands as action blocks (to hide / show / play / load scenes - more info on the game description!)
4. the whole game was written in scripto. Once done, scenes would be loaded into the game (from json files, not using the web API).
5. while some things are hardcoded in code (for example which images / "actors" would be available), the entire flow (branches, which scenes get loaded, which assets get shown, when to play sounds, etc) is handled by scripto scripts :)

Code sharing
While it's very simple and clean code, it would have to be refactored to be extracted out of the "engine" code of the game (vanilla javascript). So yes, but it needs work :)

Comments
I loved using scripto!

It's now my favorite tool for writing scripts (tried some apps but I always ended up either using notepad or google docs) and I would really love using it forward for other projects!

I shared already all the feedback I had on discord, I think that implementing some of those proposals would make it perfect to be adopted by a bigger number of games. I don't really know any other alternative that could beat it at this point, and I'm very glad I joined this jam, for me it was the perfect way to learn about this tool.

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