27

Pushed through another five or six testing transcripts today. I am always freshly stunned by how much time this takes, even when most of the bugs/missing features are not really that dire.

However, it was worth doing. Sam Kabo Ashwell found another Horrible Bug — he has a gift for this, I feel — by means of which it was possible to put the hart’s conversation into an unrecoverable loop and stall the whole scene. I think this is now no longer possible in version 27. Sobering that these things are still being found, though. Ugh.

Also, added quite a lot of new dialogue; we approach 400 quips, and will probably top that by the time all is said and done. Happy in particular needed a bit more fleshing out, especially on peripheral topics.

Thanks again to everyone who has contributed testing transcripts so far; I imagine that human-based testing will continue through the weekend.

Partway through the evening I had had enough of staring at Inform and decided I would prefer to stare at Adobe Illustrator instead; so I have given the website a makeover. This mostly involved designing a new template file and then spending a while fiddling around with CSS in the amusing fantasy that I know what I’m doing with CSS. My CSS projects always begin with me looking at csszengarden and having Coleridge-on-dope-style dreams about being the Kubla Khan of web design. They always end with me having composed another identikit webpage with links down one side and a banner along the top.