Itty Bitty Rants

Infrequent posts about stuff.

Eggs out of season

One of the things that I’m enjoying most about Chain Factor, besides the incredibly addictive game, is the code hints/easter eggs that you get sometimes that show up as an “error message”. Like this one:

ERROR 003

LEVEL 3 / CODE NNN

  • UPPER BOUND FOR BASIC SCORES? * ok i’ve got to stop playtesting and start coding. i’m starting to see * colored discs everywhere i look. do we know the upper limit on * basic mode scoring? i’m thinking about memory allocation: * -F

  • No we don’t. Figuring that out is the players’ job. * * Here’s another to do: find someone in the Minneapolis area to check * on the OOH which should be up: 494 and hwy 77 - might need some * searching around. * /s

Update Finally got error 1 again:

 ERROR 001

LEVEL 1 / CODE NNN

  • MEDIA MATRIX * s, this printout is unreadable - i’m missing half the entries in the * locations column: * -F

  • Yes, actually it would be useful if you could go out and confirm that * these are up: * LA Century N/L E/O Aviation - should be obvious. * 1815 Hawthorne 90278 - not sure about this one, you may have to * look around a bit. * /s

  • can’t wait to see your mad media jamming skillz * -F

  • We’re going to put Primacy to shame - not just sticking up a few * posters but appropriating the media machine on a grand scale. * /s

 ERROR 007

LEVEL 1 / CODE D

  • ++Power Outage?++ * F, why is MAX_POWERS set to 1 here, what is this? * /s

  • this is totally the idea, one power, no greys, but garbage starts at * max frequency - fast and furious, on ly the stong survive!

  • This wasn’t in the spec. I get the idea, but next time let me know * before you implement something like this. * /s

  • ok boss.