2022-12-14 22:30: Ecce Ada

Hello,

It's been about four months since I last wrote one of these dev diary entries, judging from the previous entry. That makes it about ten months since the last release. And guess what? Remember those reality modification mechanics? I discuss those mechanics in abstract here in this dev diary, but that's not what this entry is about.

That is, rather than the mechanics themselves¹, it will instead be about the effects of the reality modification. Or more specifically, it is about how I wrote the code that handles how Ada describes herself when the Playerr² enters the command "EXAMINE ME" or as I usually do, "X ME"³. It actually takes quite an effort, as we'll see!

(WARNING: This Dev Diary entry contains spoilers for the content in the Apartment and Glitch's Non-Breaking Space Levels. This includes discussion of the solution to one of the puzzles. Otherwise, there's nothing too major, but it may ruin some of the surprise.)