The game is bug-free now, Paul.

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The max is five. That was a bug which has been fixed.
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[b]Developer[/b]: I've fixed all the bugs in [i]Connection Summit[/i].
[b]Play Tester[/b]: It just crashed, is it supposed to do that?
[b]Developer[/b]: Oh, sorry, that was a bug. Okay! [i]Now[/i] all the bugs are fixed.
[b]Play Tester[/b] (downloads, installs and runs new release): Am I supposed to be able to do [i]this[/i]?
[b]Developer[/b]: Oops, that was a bug. The bugs are all fixed, and there aren't any more left.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

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Okay, now play it, it's fixed.

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Famous last words.

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I will do that. Also nobody play it yet because there is a game-breaking bug which will spoil the experience.
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Oh come on! Being able to bitch, moan, kvetch and complain about a Beta-class game is part of the fun! Especially when you hit a game-breaking bug so bad you get to tell the developer, "You dun fucked up!"

Goddam developers, they always wanna spoil the fun for beta testers.

If you got all five points, you've most likely extruded all of the entertainment available.

This time when I played it I got hit by a car and woke up not dead! Coolness! Are there more things that we, as a whole, will be able to discover?

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And I put the mailbox in the laundry room.
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Oh dear.

Ah ha! Didn't scratch the dog's belly last time.

And I put the mailbox in the laundry room.

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There are at least three other characters you can interact with. Two of those interactions will give you a point.

Not all characters are human.

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Did you interact with the other characters in the game?
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There are other characters?* Didn't find or see them. I hought I visited every room. I even tried getting in the cars, as well as viisiting the garage and twice using the "ominous big button" which, of course, is the switch for the garage door opener;closer.


* This question is asked in the tone of Joe Pesci in [i]My Cousin Vinny[/i], after the judge told him he needed to wear a suit, saying, "You were serious about that?"

Did you interact with the other characters in the game?

Three points, and I had to wake up to get one. I think I visited every room, and could not figure ot where the other two points are.
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This would be a great addition to the real estate market. Not just a simple gallery of pictures but an actual challenge ( sort of) to make your way through the house you may want to buy. Brilliant! If nothing else, there is a lot of raw talent on this board
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They've already started doing (something like) that here. When a house has a "for sale" sign on it, some of them will have a sign that says, "Take a virtual tour of this house at www.13670RainAve.com" the website - fictional in this example - is the house's address. If there is a virtual tour software pckage, all they have to do is take the pictures, then post them to the website. Domain registrations for 1 year are only 3 bucks, you can buy unlimited hosting for another $3 a month, so the cost (not including the website software, and there might be some open source system, like Wordpress or some other platform app might work) is less than $150 for three years to set up, and $3 for each house.

What a fun tour. It's the closest any of us will ever get to seeing it. I was disappointed I could not talk to the tree, which is 100% something I would do in real life. If I were homeless, sleeping in that playhouse would seem pretty tempting. Other than living on a street full of crazed drivers, it seems very pleasant.

This would be a great addition to the real estate market. Not just a simple gallery of pictures but an actual challenge ( sort of) to make your way through the house you may want to buy. Brilliant! If nothing else, there is a lot of raw talent on this board

Interactive non-fiction!

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Is... do I submit this to someone? It's dumb and pointless, but it's certainly more fleshed out than my most famous terrible work, so... I dunno how these things work anymore.

I want it recorded that 25 years later I made another text adventure slightly more interesting than the other one.
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Yes. I think we put it on the IF Archive. And then I would be happy to make an announcement for you on the text game forum. I will warn people that it is a walk through and not a game. And these people can see how you live. I personally think it is important that people know that Hugo is still being used every year.

The most famous being Annoyotron? It's going to be weird when people start writing sequels to this one, too, and all these games take place in your house.

Is... do I submit this to someone? It's dumb and pointless, but it's certainly more fleshed out than my most famous terrible work, so... I dunno how these things work anymore.

I want it recorded that 25 years later I made another text adventure slightly more interesting than the other one.

I have that ladder there because it was there when we moved in and hey, free ladder.

Four out of five. I suspect there's something else I needed to do with the bunny and or hamsters. There was no microwave option.

Why do you have a ladder on the wall of the Fun Room?

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