A Story of Death

[Oddity007]

Interestingly, I haven't seen that bug. I've played it quite a bit from start to finish, and so has Kurton, and the only bug I know that remains is being able to escape the map in the outside portion (and for the 2nd map, if you try really hard). I had wanted to fix it, but I couldn't find a nonrenderable collidable mesh to block it off with, and adding something that was renderable would ruin part of the look. Also, I had wanted to do these maps without creating any new assets or complicated scripting (I do enough of that with my own games *sigh* ). As far as the falling-through bug, I'll try see if I can reproduce it.

I can understand the annoyance with the keys/doors not being named, part of that was probably laziness, as I figured there being only one key/unlockable door at a time would make it unnecessary, but I understand it can help give a cue of what to do.

I dislike making a story obvious when all I have are maps with no people and no scripted events. Telling a story through notes/letters wouldn't have made sense in this custom story due to the whole area being quarantined for infection, the earthquake, blah blah blah... Telling it through research notes wouldn't have made sense either, as one of the papers left behind explains that they left for the north with the research material, and few scientists are that careless. What I was left with was to tell the story through the conditions of the environment, with two noncritical notes left behind. I aimed for a slight vagueness as well, so that people can come away with whatever interpretation they feel more comfortable with.

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Any bugs you find, let me know, I wouldn't be surprised if I missed a few considering that I'll usually play it the way it was 'intended'.