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Looks and reads great!

Hi Andrew

Just catching up guess you're out of Isolation.
I like your artwork like to hear more about this project of yours.

QBITS

Need HELP ! LOOKING for 3 testers for PICOLE2 !!
Any volunteers?

Please send me a pm with your email - and I'll send the game for testing!!

Enjoy the game!

Writing a non-linear adventure game presented more challenges than needed, and testing all possible cases was time consuming.
I hope that I haven't missed anything.
i will publish the source file a bit later - I have to tidy up the excel files I created for the game and all of the associated small programs used for data files creation.
And probably will have to write a walk-through

Files:
Win1.zip - WIN QXL container for use with QPC, QEmulator and QL-SD
PICole2flp.zip - 720k floppy image
PICole2Manual.zip - game manual in pdf (the manual in Quill format is included pn win and floppy)

LATER UPDATE
I have removed the files as I have uploaded a new version - see viewtopic.php?p=39733#p39733

Looking forward to play on my QL!
Thank you so much Andrew!

That was quick!

vanpeebles wrote:That was quick!

Just tested the game for 24 hours straight. I hope I haven't missed anything critical.

Andrew, I've had time to make some first steps with your new game, and it is intriguing, beautiful and funny! I don't want to run to the end: It is like a glass of finest 50-year old scotch, to be enjoyed slowly!

Cristian wrote:Andrew, I've had time to make some first steps with your new game, and it is intriguing, beautiful and funny! I don't want to run to the end: It is like a glass of finest 50-year old scotch, to be enjoyed slowly!

Thank you Cristian ! It makes me very happy knowing that someone enjoys the game!
I was wondering if it's not a bit too noire, especially when the stories start to come together.

Something I did not mentioned in the manual, but probably I should have: The USE command
The USE command has 2 forms:
first is: USE object1 WITH Object2 = USE food WITH plate
But for some objects the command will be executed after the selection of the first object, so it is USE object1.
Like USE glasses = meaning you "Start wearing the glasses".

But what if you would want to clean the glasses with a cloth?
if you try to use "USE glasses with cloth"it will not work (remember, for this object, the USE will be executed after you selected the first object, the glasses in this example)
So what to do is "USE cloth WITH glasses" - simply select that object as the second object.

I hoe that this hint will help you in playing the game!

OK, I'm officially stuck.
One of the many questions (probably the main one) is: why can't I call the police, using my telephone and the correct number, after finding a dead person? Is this a possible bug?