I guess we can go with that. My original idea wasn't exactly what you thought though...darkbutflashy wrote:Before anything other, I tripped over some details in the story prologue: you wrote Prot knows the Dr Fix for years, still he is attending the lectures the professor gives. While not totally odd, as the player I would expect Prot being the assistant of Dr Fix , attending the lectures solely for keeping up-to-date for the following exercise, which Prot organizes for the students. I don't think it is possible in that set Prot is studying *together* with a freshman. Even a "private exercise" would be odd.
I suggest both Prot and Claire being freshmen. That way there are a lot of plausible stories and places where the two could meet. The first scene could be Prot and Claire attending the lecture and outperform each other and all the other students. That would be the first puzzle, with many possible state variables set for the follwing game: Claire impressed by prot, Claire unimpressed, Claire annoyed by Prot, different levels of knowledge demonstrated to each other and Dr Fix and so on. We could even allow the player to choose characters and play Claire in that first part of the game, giving slightly different start points for the following story.
Let's start with that scene, just to get a feeling for it. By the way, you have Inform7 up and running? Then we could immediately exchange code pieces and test.
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I was thinking that prot started taking classes as a freshman with dr fix, and after 2 or 3 years of classes, they have become friends. Claire is a transfer student that is in his year.
However, I think your idea works too. SImplicity is best. K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid.) So for simplicity's sake, we can make it so Dr Fix is amazed at their (or at least Prot's) knowledge as a freshman, and both Prot and Claire are freshman together.
I like the puzzle idea too, that could be a good way of getting the player to start to work for a reward.
I'm not sure what kind of puzzle you want for this. I had an idea for a kind of puzzle later on, which would involve hacking computers/robots, but I'll go into that when we get there.
I did download Inform7. I will try to get it running, but you are going to have to be walking me through some of this. I'm sure I an figure a lot of this out, but someone with experience would be better at using it.
As Prot is not his name, I just don't know what to call him. What name should we use for the protagonist?