Yes it’s finally out….well at alpha stage anyway….in other words, it’s completable.
For those who don’t know, Spaceship! is a collaboratively designed text adventure by the Guardian’s gamesblog community.
I’ve been involved with this project for a couple of months now, ever since Aleks did her spiel at BarCampBrighton3, it’s been challenging and informative (another programming language in the bank) but most importantly….great fun.
It’s very much at an alpha stage though, so still a few weeks to iron out all of the lumps and bumps, which is why it’s being announced at this point….WE NEED TESTERS….so if you fancy having a peak at what we’ve done, you can find it here. Probably best to just click “play” and play it online (java runtime needed) or if you want you can download the game file and run in an interpreter on your machine (links to terps also on page).
Type “transcript on” to start with and “transcript off” at the end, then save the transcript as ’spaceship tester [your name] [the date]‘ and send to wikicoders +at+ googlemail.com so we can see where you got stuck etc. Any other feedback also appreciated, either post at our google group or comment here.
There is also a competition to design the art work for the game, so if you have an artistic bent, we’d like to open the floor to you to create our Cover Art.
Submit your pieces to the gamesblog’s Flickr Group, and the submission which the team chooses will win a lovely prize.
Think that about wraps it up, have a look, play to your hearts content and let us/me know what you think.
