Comments on: Designing the puzzles of Escapade! /blog/2010/03/designing-the-puzzles-of-escapade/ Interactive Fiction by Juhana Leinonen Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Erkki Lindpere /blog/2010/03/designing-the-puzzles-of-escapade/comment-page-1/#comment-1883 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:39:46 +0000 /blog/?p=250#comment-1883 Cool, if I'll ever attempt to make an adventure game again, I'll use something like this. I was once working on a Deus Ex mod that was a remake of Yahtzee's 5 Days a Stranger and reverse engineered a "puzzle map" (though I didn't refer to it by that name) that contained states and player actions and their connections:
http://lap.ee/erkki/5DAS/public_files/GameStates-v1.png

I was stupidly trying to cram this into UML, though, as you can see. A mindmap seems a much better representation. Though I liked that I was able to use containers for the days in the game. Perhaps better solved with a separate mind map for each independent part of the game.

]]> By: Taleslinger /blog/2010/03/designing-the-puzzles-of-escapade/comment-page-1/#comment-1820 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:50:03 +0000 /blog/?p=250#comment-1820 Very enlightening! I'm pretty sure I'll use the puzzle map tool in my next big project.

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