#genderjam

Unfortunately they’re for people living in Northern Ireland only, but it’s a great resource for those who are living there!

Link to GenderJam page.

I tend to make games that are hard because they are confusing. Not intentionally, but they are. Or rather, I wan't my games to do things differently and or unexpected things most of the time. But I want that confusion to be of a good kind, not the "I don't get this - what is the point - next!".

So, it scares me that it took me three days to realize that this game will be confusing by design since there will be a ton of non-sense text as a core feature of the game. It scares me that it took me three days to realize that if the point is to show a feeling of alienation in a world where you are forced to act within a stereotypical box, then all the people around you SHOULD look similar and stereotypical. While you must look apart from them.

This is to not distract the player. It would of course have been even nicer to show that even the evil stereotypical normals have nuances, but it is a dubious way to go.

Today I got an HTML parser with xpath and some basic language understanding cooking. It was easy enough to grab the written texts from deviever's blog and put the words and sentences in nice little lists and dictionaries.

Still I've got nothing worth showing since I spent about 2h fighting Unity3D until I surrendered and put a workaround in place. It seems impossible to have 3rd party dll:s in the project (and they work just fine) AND then try to make a custom editor/inspector for scripts using said dlls. *Sigh*

I left of mid-ways through my simple, trusted and quite well producing language splicers bot strategy:

while (!goodJoinWord && !safeBreak) {  safeBreak = !UpdateCurrentSources();  HashSet<string> availableWords =  _joinWords[_currentSources];  //If not getting any sentence remove word. }

I keep doing many conversions between HashSets and Lists, but figuring out where I go wrong there will be fore a later data when I actually have something to show.