Look at me, still talking when there's science to do!

Ok so this is the moment almost no one as been waiting for, an early test of Jimson and The Jazz Crabs! Here's to beating Duke Forever to public demo! Right now there is no intro to the game or background music/voice because those are not getting done until everything else is set in stone. What is there is a short little adventure game which can be beaten without too much trouble. I am putting this up here to mark the completion of a playable game. From here on out it should just be tweaking. With that in mind, if you actually play this please send me any bugs/typos that you run into. Right now it is Windows only, the final version should have working Linux/OS X versions as well. [Download]

PS. There was a lingering script bug at the end of the game. It just showed some extra dialog right before the credits, but that has been fixed in the new zip.

happy birthday, here's your nerve gas

Yesterday I posted our location in the line for the final Portal talk of GDC, but I did not relay the tragedy that befell John and me when we tried to enter. It seems Expo Passes were allowed to go in but not Student passes, so Jimson was able to go in and see the whole talk. Luckily Joystiq has notes from the whole talk up here. I was able to sneak in later in the session when they began taking questions from the audience. I was rather mad that I didn't get to see the whole talk, but while I was there Eric cited Destination:Void as an influence, which excited me a lot as that was one of my favorite books in middle school. Also he said Undying was cool, which it is. Also he worked on Psychonauts. Too bad most of the questions were stupid fan questions in the vein of the ones asked at a Comic-Con session and not really about the development of the game. I don't know when I will be home yet as I am waiting to arrange a ride out of Pismo Beach to San Diego, so I may be back with another post in a while.