Jolt Country

Posted: **Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:07 pm**

Flack mentioned this on Twitter last night. I was out with my gal, but able to read it over my phone. I think it's safe to say that this is the sort of review everyone hopes they get when they make these things. It's like Emily's review of bruce's game Mentula Macanus. When I read this, I was like, "Wow, the reviewer really got it.

Here it is:

http://interactive-friction.blogspot.co ... erwin.html

Posted: **Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:45 pm**

People hate that first puzzle!

Posted: **Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:15 pm**

pinback wrote:People hate that first puzzle!

That makes me and Golem sad.

Bruce

Posted: **Sat Nov 05, 2011 8:34 pm**

Liked the review, really good descriptions, descriptiveness? anyway

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:09 am**

bruce wrote:
pinback wrote:People hate that first puzzle!
That makes me and Golem sad.

Bruce

One of the less intuitive puzzles in the game... (Thoughts later!)

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:26 am**

For me at least, it's more important that a reviewer played my game and "got" my game rather than it is that he liked my game.

I don't mind bad reviews about my books as long as the people read them and understand what they were about. I've had a few that were like, "well, this book sucks because I was expecting something else based on my own crazy thoughts."

Anyway, it sounded like that guy played the game and got what ICJ was going for!

Posted: **Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:19 pm**

I will be trying to write a blog post this week talking about the first puzzle in Crypto, and what I've learned. I'm extremely behind on computer stuff at the moment, however.

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:07 pm**

After a week of trepidation, sweaty palms, and outright anxiety at the perilous journey my signed copy of CryptoZookeeper would have to endure to be cuddled in my appreciative hands, it finally arrived!

Here is a picture of me (in armor) holding it and trying to approximate a creature from the game:

Thank you Mr. Sherwin!

Posted: **Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:28 pm**

Thank YOU, RetroRomper!

Sorry it took so long to arrive. It was murder trying to find a metal Sharpie pen. A lot of people say that fur is murder, but for my money, it's getting a silver permanent marker. We have all the colors of the rainbow at work, but nothing with precious metals! Times really are tough in the American workforce.

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:44 am**

I concur! When I hatched the plan to get Eugene Jarvis to sign a copy of Fallacy of Dawn, I *knew* a silver marker was in order, but hell if it wasn't a trial to get anything worthwhile. I bought everything silver-writing-utensil-related Target had in stock. The end result, a silver pen, was good enough in that it-works-if-someone-points-out-the-signature-for-you way, but I was really shooting for what-passed-for-a-"collectible-edition"-in-the-90s, where a game would have those manufactured, completely-fake designer signatures on the front.

Oh well.

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:43 am**

Roody_Yogurt wrote:I concur! When I hatched the plan to get Eugene Jarvis to sign a copy of Fallacy of Dawn[...]

Jarvis designed Joust and Defender at Williams, correct? Very rad to have him sign a Joust cab or even a text game (same generation!). Disappointed I missed the opportunity to purchase hard copies of Necrotic Drift and Fallacy of Dawn though... Oh well...

ICJ: Is to too early to pre-order your next game?

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:22 am**

Well, there are about 30 copies of Fallacy of Dawn that are still extant in a box, ready for sale. It's just that Jason Scott took them when I left Seattle a year ago and I haven't gotten them back from him. Argh!

Anyone here live in downstate NY?

Posted: **Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:44 pm**

Flack wrote:Also, from both personal experience and the experience of several friends, I don't think Italy has a post office. Whenever you mail stuff to Italy it either ends up in the Forbidden Zone, or goes to some rich bureaucrat's house at which point he keeps what he wants and throws the rest away. Point is, it never, ever arrives at the recipient's house. If anyone from Italy orders your game you should just refund their money immediately and throw a copy of your game in the trash and save everybody a bunch of time.

Seriously, fuck Italy. You have a better chance of a Nigerian scammer actually giving you $44 million dollars than you do getting a package delivered to anyone living in Italy.

I know from comments I've heard that for some countries, (mostly the Middle East but I suppose if a country is routinely corrupt it could apply in that case) if you need to ship something and want it to get there, you should use DHL. The reason is they routinely pay bribes in order to make sure their packages get through. DHL is owned by Deutsche Post , the German <s>Post Office</s> Logistics Company, so it is not subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act so the making of payments of bribes and kickbacks is not illegal.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:37 am**

If you missed the tweets, ICJ was recently interviewed by Fwonk.com in regards to his hit game, Cryptozookeeper!

http://blog.fwonk.com/2011/11/five-ques ... zookeeper/

(I added the "hit" part. POSITIVE PR SPIN YO!)

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2011 9:45 am**

I did two interviews recently about Cryptozookeeper.

The first was at FWONK, and you can read it here: http://blog.fwonk.com/2011/11/five-ques ... zookeeper/

The second was at Gnome's Lair, and can be read here: http://www.gnomeslair.com/2011/11/crypt ... rview.html

Enjoy!

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:36 am**

The XYZZY nominations managed to generate almost 200 downloads since they were announced. According to the Internet Archive, it's at 3976. I'm kinda hoping it will push past 4,000 the next time the stats update!

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:09 am**

I'm kinda hoping YOUR MOM will push past 4,000 the next time the stats update!

/threadshitted!

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:02 pm**

pinback wrote:I'm kinda hoping YOUR MOM will push past 4,000 the next time the stats update!

/threadshitted!

She did, she banged guy number 4216 over the weekend.

What's this, another review of Cryptozookeeper? SURELY!

http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=6xbqnm ... view=16222

Posted: **Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:30 pm**

I had been debating whether to order Crypto or just download it when I read this:

Fwonk wrote:I think it took somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 hours to make Cryptozookeeper.

Good lord. I'm sold.

Now I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my first IF purchase in over 20 years. Frankly, it's kind of a relief not having to worry about the huge download anymore!

Posted: **Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:24 am**

Thanks, man. I'll drop that in the mail and send it on its way to you today!

Jolt Country

Cryptozookeeper for sale: $15