oh yeah that’s a total mistake. it’s supposed to be only the one track. you can tell i was sort of running out of time towards the end of the prototype, huh?

anyway, thanks for playing!

twitter’s fine. if you want you don’t even have to DM me, just tweet at me for half an hour. maybe that’ll prompt other people to say something interesting, too? who knows

i’m @shoutscion on twitter too, by the way

failing that you could also email jackandcasiedevelopment@gmail.com, or just post directly to the comments section on itch.io. i try to keep an eye out everywhere, really

see that’s a really interesting bit of feedback

.357 and .223 rounds are actually real pistol and rifle rounds, named after the diameter of the bullet. i didn’t want to call them Small Pistol Rounds or something video gamey like that because i feel like that takes away from the believeability of the setting- after all, why would people who routinely shoot at things or get shot at by things not have specific names for the types of bullet they use? bullets are like half of their tools of the trade. there are exactly two things you need to know to keep metal gear sacagawea from kicking your entire house over and that’s how to shoot your gun, and what bullets go in the gun

in the interest of balancing gameplay with world building however i did end up taking another look at the system. the idea i’m currently working with is calling the basic pistol round a ‘.38′ and the basic rifle round a ‘.223′, and having both of them increase in size over the course of the game. this doesn’t literally solve the problem- according to my math, .38 is a larger number than .223- but it does give the player a pattern to recognize; pistol rounds are 2 digits, and rifle rounds are 3. pistol round’s designations is shorter, too, giving the impression that the round itself is smaller as well

hopefully that gives the impression i’m going for, anyway. i’d really hate to have to call pistol rounds .38P or something. not because it’s wrong or anything- Jack and Casie’s gunplay is already all weird and fucky by real world standards (does Casie even know what cover is? what the fuck do you mean she just puts on armor what about her face), so realism isn’t the problem as much as player engagement is- the most important thing about Jack and Casie’s design is that the world doesn’t explain itself to you, and the player is allowed to think about things and discover things and come to their own conclusions by themselves

( which sounds deep, but really it’s just so that i can tell more jokes )

that is intentional, actually- ‘stalling’ the feed like that gives you a little bit of extra room but not only stops new items from spawning but despawns items if you push them up too high, especially whatever item Casie just used. it’s useful briefly, or if you’re content with the items you are already carrying, but it’s not a perfect solution because eventually stalling will keep even ammunition from spawning and you’ll just run out of attacks

(as a footnote- during development, i think the popular interpretation was that Jack was physically holding a big stupid pile of items out in front of him and he’d just keep picking up shit until he couldn’t see where he was going and ignored things on the ground)