New version of Taxpayers' Millions

[Damian]

G'Day,

I have posted a new version of my embittered governance game, Taxpayers' Millions Chance of a Lifetime.

Download Taxpayers' Millions v1.2 (17.6mb) (http://www.thedailygrind.net/software/TaxpayersMillions.sit)

New in version 1.2:
* Improved graphics
* Faster loading
* More readable instructions
* Minor bug fixes


Taxpayers' Millions, Chance of a Lifetime is a satirical arcade and puzzle game in which the player governs a famous SW Pacific nation and seeks re-election.

Squander your way through a campaign or blunder your way through the five unique subplots individually.

Can you, armed only with a keen inability to perceive events around you:
ï Keep your foreign policy intact by avoiding jelly wrestling Dali Lamas?
ï Backflip around conflict of interest questions, and nail Bradman to your white picket fence?
ï Bounce the barrels of pork into your marginal electorates?
ï Avoid conceding that refugees are not in fact Insect-like-Battledoids?
ï Plausibly deny being briefed on any of this?

The levels are heavily influenced by arcade and puzzle classics, but with degrees of bitterness previously thought to exist only in theory.

[Patrick]

This game is great, even though I don't get any of the jokes :D

[OneSadCookie]

I hate to always be the one to rain on your parade, Damian, but it crashed when I got to the Dalai Lama level (I saw the instruction screen briefly first)

[Damian]

Gah!

I've tried 3 rewrites to fix that. The problem is... I can't reproduce it, uner OS X, OS 9, OS 8.6.

I'll see what I can do. At least now I know it's not the resolution change, but rather the asset loading code.

[OneSadCookie]

From the crash log, it crashes in MoviesTask, so I guess it's something to do with QuickTime...

[Damian]

Now THAT is interesting... maybe I'm passing an invalid pointer to a sound effect I never realised wasn't playing. Hmmm... Still puzzling that I can't reproduce it. Maybe different versions of QT were less tolerant. Thanks very much OSC.