[REQUEST] Harvest: Prologue Questionnaire (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)

[Phoroneus]

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I couldn't find a lot of stuff. If you planned for the custom story to be an interactive one, then you could have said so. I liked it, but it seemed all a bit too limited. It makes me want to try out different paths and play it multiple times.

Ya same.

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I found only the well ending so far. I'm gonna go back and try for all of the things on the poll.

Btw, when you fall into the well. I kept floating up and down in weird intervals or something, is that suppose to be swimming or something you put in?

Edit: Need well spiders & breakable prison door. It was fun dodging the grunt at the hallway ending. Managed to get away and he stopped chasing me. I dont think the spiders work.

Edit2: Whats the breakble prison door? I tried riding the grunt to all the doors, but it didn't work

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The bobbing in the well is a bug. I'll see about fixing it, but it's come and gone a dozen times. It has to do with the player's collision with an invisible floor just beneath the surface of the water, meant to slow them down so that they sink more slowly. If it doesn't vanish the way it's supposed to (per callback function) the player will just float on top of it. I might try lowering it a bit so that the player ends up underwater either way.

The well spiders and alcove spiders only appear if you stay in those locations (mid-climb in the well or sitting up in the alcove) for one to two minutes (it does a check every 60 seconds and if you're there for two consecutive checks, it starts dropping bugs on you). It's meant to keep the player from camping in one of the locations in order to escape the grunt. Basically the spiders are analogous to the Shadow in original Amnesia, meant to keep the player moving. They'll be a fixture in Harvest proper, especially chapter two.

There is also a spider flood if you trigger the grunt to come after you (in the hallway ending). From the time you hit the trigger area onward, a spider will spawn in the entrance to the tunnel every few seconds. They can be partially mitigated by leaving that door closed, but they will eventually escape through the bars of the cells.

Only one of the prison doors is breakable. It's meant to keep the player from hiding in cell 2 (marked by Roman numerals) or impeding the grunt by opening the door into the narrow hallway. It's one of the custom entities which acts like a normal prison door but becomes a pushable entity if the grunt attacks it (it has twice the health of a normal door, however). It's not something you'd normally encounter, but it solved one of the main problems with the grunt getting stuck in the "BreakDoor" loop. I considered making the cell 3 door also breakable, but it's already a custom entity (that allows you to reach through the bars to get the padlock, which is impossible with the regular prison doors).

TL;DR:

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The alcove spiders are meant to force the player out of hiding, the well spiders are meant to force the player back down from his climb, the "spider flood" which occurs when the player triggers the grunt to attack him via script area in the hall is meant to keep the player from hiding indefinitely from the grunt, and the breakable door is on cell 2, it's a custom entity designed to prevent the player from getting the grunt stuck in a "BreakDoor" loop.

I considered making the map call itself in order to give people multiple runs, or to make it keep calling itself until both "real" endings were reached, but figured that people would rather just run it once at a time instead of being forced to do it multiple times in order to get out.

The credits, by the way, are in their final form (pending any credits for voice acting, music, or animations that I may or may not utilize from other contributors), so they're very long for such a short map. They're meant to be the last bit after all three Prologue maps are complete, but I didn't feel like adding them in later. :3