Wildcard Stream Vol. 103 - Short Games For Schmukz
0♦ Livestream of 9 ZZT worlds. ♦
♦ Stream Contents ♦
• (0:58) "Death" by Wantchat8 (199https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/deathwc/a...]
• (9:36) "Line Wars, ZZT Style: Part One" by T Chohttps://museumofzzt.com/file/view/linewar/n...]
• (17:00) "PipeLine (The NL Demo)" by Comthought (199https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/pipedemo/p...]
• (23:26) "Random Number Generator" by Alexqoft (199https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/randomaq/n...]
• (27:57) "Shooting Gallery" by JoeyBHehttps://museumofzzt.com/file/view/sgallery/a...]
• (35:57) "The Firing Squad Game" by Unknown (199https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/squad/uad/]
• (42:30) "Star ZZT" by Matthew Darragh (199https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/stardemo/a...]
• (57:02) "ZOCRPGZZT" by ZOrangeCow (200https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/zocrpg/c...]
• (1:20:12) "Schmukz" by Matt Perrothttps://museumofzzt.com/file/view/schmukz/h...]
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That's right, 9 worlds, as we trim away a number of very short games off the unpreserved queue with an unfortunate number still remaining.
We begin with "Death" of course, which turned out to be a basic editor playaround game with a focus on providing the player with creatures to shoot above all else. It's a bad sign that this was one of the more enjoyable games of the set. Shooting creatures, grabbing keys, and racing to the exit may not be the most inspired gameplay mechanics, but they do work.
Then "Line Wars", a basic Tron Light Cycle engine game that couldn't stick its landing. The player's bike and controls run at cycle three, leading to a very mushy level of responsiveness in what's meant to be a fast-paced arcade game. Also the enemies seem unbeatable!
"Pipeline" isn't to be confused with WiL's puzzle game of the same name. This is a demo for a ZZT newsletter that I do not understand why they bothered. The menu shows four levels, of which only one is actually available, while its passage points to an undefined board causing ZZT to crash! Changing to the board manually leads to a puzzle where there are gaps in a line wall and you need to place the correct pieces of pipe in their place to connect everything. It's get big pre-school energy (not that that stopped me from running out of time on the first attempt). The board exit then also crashes ZZT.
"Random Number Generator" shows a simple method to roll random numbers from set of powers of 2. A few objects place unique elements in the corner and an object parsed which ones can/can't be found on the board to add up a roll. It's a basic demonstration that isn't wrong, though it's also not the best way to generate such numbers. Probably helpful for younger authors though!
"Shooting Gallery" turns the tables, as in this gallery you are the target being shot at! Run through a few rooms with spinning guns and obstacles ranging from conveyors to invisibles, and fight survive to the end. Another game that does what it says, but isn't too exciting.
"The Firing Squad Game" is a real chicken and egg problem. It's a single board of various targets to shoot that I know we've seen in another game, though I can't recall which. The real question is which game actually created the board!
"Star ZZT" is another baffling entry. It's world made by somebody who didn't make the custom character set, and shows some, but not all of the changed characters within. To top it all off, the font itself makes some rather weird changes for something meant for ZZT worlds. I'm going to have nightmares about the bears.
Now, "ZOCRPGZZT" however, makes more sense. It's an RPG toolkit with a number of pre-fab objects to compile into a board to create an instant RPG engine with support for 4 heroes and 3 enemies, as well as custom mechanic tweaks via adding other objects to implement accuracy features, damage variance, and randomizer for which fighter acts first.
And lastly, Schmukz, a slightly longer adventure about recovering stolen goods from the university bully. You're a frail nerd who dies quite easily, and needs to find a number of arbitrary items and wacky ways of getting them to successfully recover your things and put a stop to the bully. Some unpleasant dialog adds a lot of friction to an otherwise decent game if you can stumble across the solutions to some of its more esoteric puzzles.
♦ Originally streamed on December 8th, 2024 ♦
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