Ishould probably have been more focused on smaller projects in more easily available IDE's like Gamemaker instead of worrying about pathfinding, trigonometry, line of sight and all the basic stuff that's not really relevant unless you want to work on a game for 20 years.
I do like the Q idea to turn it into a pure point-and-click adventure, but how does it function as a survival game that way? Don't spoil what the danger is, but how does it work in the game? I'm assuming it's like Lone Survivor.
I never said pure point and click, that's not what I want at all. The player is still controlled with the movement keys, Q is just a toggle that enables the mouse to examine the world in detail, kinda like hearing what the character is thinking about any particular aspect. This will also play up in the story a little as the character will be keeping a diary of sorts.
No, I'm asking how the "survival" aspect works since you're implying that the objective is to gather an inventory based on things you discover in the environment. Are you gathering things solely to progress, or because they help you survive?
It's just the way the inventory is being presented has changed. The objective is still the same as any survival horror, which is to collect things to progress AND survive. Survival horror is essentially an adventure game with added mechanics to manage like health or ammunition vs whatever the enemy is. I'm definitely not adding random food items and things as health packs because I personally don't really like that and it feels messy, nor is it fitting to the story, but there'll be a few health items more like Resident Evil had the different herbs and first aid sprays.
I like the new tile-sets over the oyster grey rooms you've showed off so far - especially the white, waving effects. It would be interesting if you did some research on scintillating scotoma and create room designs that play visual tricks on the player.
Still messing around with what info/how it displays the info, but presently it's Slot/Difficulty/Time/Number of saves (because those things will probably account for a "score" similar to Resident Evil). Still have to make it remember everything, but I have the trickiest stuff down like unlocking previously unlocked doors after loading, the rest is just remembering booleans to trigger events basically, and the enemy location, player stats and inventory.
Like difficulty in most games. Make you more vulnerable, less health items around, they have a lesser effect etc, I'll have to see what the gameplay really turns out like with that sort of stuff. I quite like the thing from Lone Survivor expert mode that removed UI interaction icons so maybe something like that too. I could also make an Ironman type mode where you get locked to saving in the same slot, and maybe even your save gets deleted if you die so it's a one attempt thing.
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Since I have been back in the wine and spirits sector for about five months, I have had the opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and producers, and there was always a recurring theme: natural wines. I can tell that few people take natural wines seriously, being the subject of ridicule and jokes.
It may be that having worked in the film industry is the reason that I can see the potential of a story worthy of Dario Argento, and that is why here I am in front of my computer, frantically typing while trying to defend my argument.
Although the natural wine movement intended to be able to offer wines that are the pure reflection of the place, vintage and winemaker's talent, after becoming a trend, it has become a kind of cult that sacrifices the palate of terrified consumers who come to my restaurant.
The basement and the attic are essential places in a horror movie. Ghosts and dangers hide there. Sometimes the supernatural forces that invade a given horror movie no longer come from the basement but from below.
Still, many people don't know that it is a natural wine. It does not help the arrival of new gurus (intruders) who take advantage of the opacity to make money in a market where It will not have many detractors because nobody knows what is happening. Don't tell me it's not a very dark place to start.?
When We reach certain places in life, we start losing our ability to filter our thoughts. Do you want an honest opinion? Talk to someone older; it won't sugarcoat much. I remember a recent event in which a strongly opinionated old lady about her vision of Zinfandel. We exchanged a few words, and she told me, "I should stop sharing my opinion, but I'm not playing around." She was delightful!.
One winemaker told me a story about a particular german radio star who got into natural wines. I wouldn't surprise whether He hit the headlines under the premise of Sex, Drugs and Biodynamic wines (Three NOs in horror movies.) Depending on how he felt that day, he put yeast in his wines.
If you, as a winemaker, look for a specific fault to add some edge to the wine to make it exciting but enjoyable, go for it, But let's make clear to already confused consumers that this is not how a natural wine should be.
We assume that organic, biodynamic and natural wines are produced in conditions to benefit the planet are this white dove of the industry. Well, we need to add another word to the equation: Sustainability.
Question everything, including me. Maybe I'm a horrible middle-aged woman who wants to ruin your guilty pleasure because you, little sinner, enjoy faulty wines. Or I love to play: who am I to destroy your fantasy of drinking sulfite-free wines while eating potato chips?
Four years ago I did a legal name change, via a court order. After that, I got a new social security card (the s.s.n. number remained the same), a new passport, DL, and updated my name on all of my credit card and bank accounts and on my mortgage account that I had at the time. When I asked the credit card companies if I needed to to anything regarding updating my name with the credit bureaus, they told me "no". They said that they will keep reporting my credit card activity with the same s.s.n. and that the credit bureaus will understand that my name has changed and will add some field like "also known as" in their records. I maintained credit minitoring accounts with Experian and Transunion, and I noticed that they did just that with my credit file. However, as I found out later, Equifax did not. Over the period of four years all of my active credit cards have been reissued under my new name and eventually with new account numbers as well. In several cases (Citi and Barclays) the banks at some point changed the account numbers themselves, and with Chase I had some unauthorized transaction at some point show up and the card had to be cancelled and re-issued with a new account number for security reasons. As it turned out all these years my Equifax credit score was slowly going down due to inactivity. Right now I am in the process of buying an apartment. When I applied for a mortgage pre-approval, this issue came to light. The lender pulled my Equifax credit report and it came back with NO score at all. The lender called the Equifax business customer support and eventually was told something to the effect that my credit file went dormant due to lack of recent activity and that's why there was no score. At the same time my scores from Experian and Transunion were around 833, 834.
I then signed up with MyEquifax for their credit monitoring service to see what was going on. They showed me some kind of a simulated score of around 675 (!!). Moreover, none of the reissued cards under my new name were shown in the Equifax report and it was only showing old closed accounts, with one exception (a Discover account that I had not used in several years).
It tool me several days and hours on the phone with Equifax to get them to update my name. I had to provide them a ton of documents through their online dispute center. I had to talk to several supervisors since regular customer service reps there are almost completely useless. The supervisors are not much better. Their first attempt to change my name was done incorrectly: They changed the first name but not the last name and produced a weird hybrid. I had to call again, and eventually they did change my name to the correct one. BUT they neglected to add my previous name under "also known as"/"other names". So the next time I logged in and my credit report refreshed, my entire credit history disappered! The credit report was completely blank! Several more hours on the phone and they re-added my former name under "also known as"/"other names". My credit history came back. Then suddenly my (simulated) Equifax credit score jumped to 761, presumably because of the credit inquiries by the mortage lender. The lender tried to pull the report again, and it came back to him with a score, this time 775. I made a small charge to that Discover card and then two of the credit cards that I actively use (Barclays and Citi) posted their monthly statements, with small balances, $9 and $39, and they also showed up back on my Equifax report. The Citi Mastercard account is one of my older accounts, 26+ years, and as of now the simulated (shown to me) Equifax credit score is 832. It looks like my missing credit history is basically getting restored. However, I still can't belive that Equifax is so inept at handling name changes. People change names all the time. It's not a rare occurrence.
Wow, its good you're tenacious!! I'm impressed you kept them on the phone as long as you did. Shameful that they had to re-do it once they finally started correcting the file. I never thought about the name change ramifications with credit. I mean people marry every day which results in name changes on their social security cards.
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