Hatogate

[davidn]

xaq's human-parser mini-adventure game captured all of our attentions this week to the tune of 144 comments, and in return for him giving us that experience, I voiced the notion of turning it into an actual Flash game. So after the Livejournal version was over, he sent me a wonderfully programmatic layout of the possible commands and conditions for each one - and it's only through reading the whole thing that I realize just how hilarious it is, really doing justice to the weird tone that Hatoful is written in while putting it in a Shadowgate-like setup. Well done!

Therefore:


http://www.clickteam.info/davidn/games/hatogate/

This is something of a test release, as I'm the only one who's played with it so far - eventually I'd like to put a title screen and maybe some music on to it, then hopefully see what Moa thinks! It is possible that I've translated the entire thing without any bugs - stranger things have happened, but only about six ever, and they were all in Hatoful Boyfriend. So if you do encounter anything odd happening (that is, anything identifiably odder than normal) let me know. The most likely thing is text running off the bottom of the screen, as I haven't checked all the branches yet.

This was an interesting quick thing to work on, and I'll write up a technical post about it soon - thank you, xaq, for providing it!

Comments

[miz servi (from livejournal.com)]

Dang, this is fun! Only criticism I have is that the text can run a bit slow at times, but I suppose that's a coding limitation?

You may or may not be aware, Moa's been playing the game too. Shall translate w/ Google-fu~:

シャドウゲイト的アンヘルくんゲーム、素晴らしい完成度です！: Hatogate - http://bit.ly/W33K0b
([An] Angel- kun [for a] Shadowgate game is perfection [of a] great degree! : Hatogate)
‏@moa810 [source (https://twitter.com/moa810/status/291157043379843072)]

しかし本家同様に死にエンドばかり踏んでしまって未だ見つからないベストエンド
(I still cannot find the Best End! I just stepped on the upstream end in the same way but dead)
@moa810 [source (https://twitter.com/moa810/status/291157159612395521)]


Congratulations! I think you may have killed Moa in a game more times than she has killed you.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

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*flashes a huge, dorky grin* Heeeee. *faints*

[miz servi (from livejournal.com)]

Ha haaa! XD <3

[davidn]

I saw this morning - it's fantastic that she broadcast it to her Twitter followers (who appear confused that it's in English - now they know how we felt about Holidaystar!) Now that we've given something back to the architect of this lunacy, perhaps the circle of madness is complete?

I've been wrong about that so many times before.

[miz servi (from livejournal.com)]

Circling and circling and circling and...

[miz servi (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, and please disregard my earlier complaint about the text. Clicking twice reveals the full text anyways.... The more you know?