hartleyhair
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Hello. I've just finished my first complete Hold, Utopolis Life, the sequel to Omnisia (which I've currently abandoned).

You take control of Agrippa, Chief Sorceror, who has recently saved the world (again) from the Eastern Evil.

However, all you really want is to settle down, maybe earn a few Shillings... that sort of thing.

Utopolis Life is a virtual city with money system, bank, muggers, two possible jobs, three houses with two improvement options each, various costumes, and one or two secret rooms as well. Oh, and a Grim Reaper .

I am entirely self-taught on characters, so I have put the Hold on Anyone Can Edit, in case of scripting errors.

I would greatly appreciate any feedback on bugs, unintended solutions (in Dungeons), or pretty much anything else. Hopefully there shouldn't be too many of those as I tested it pretty thoroughly...

Thanks for helping out a total newbie,

Hartleyhair

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Samuel
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I like it but in the acadamey when you loose at the teaching thing it gives you a failure evry next time that you go to examine the words again

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hartleyhair
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I know, I will try to fix that but I don't think it's too important. When you restart the room it works fine though...

If you mean, you want to examine the words AFTER leaving the Teaching Tutorial, you have to go back to the Employment Agency to examine the words again.

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Anson
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Shillings?
Their from "A game with a kitty"

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As far as I'm aware, they're actually derived from Victorian English currency.

Here's an updated version, fixed some bugs - such as not being able to exit the Mansion.

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hartleyhair
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Come on guys, please, I need reviews...

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New update (fixes bug in The Academy)

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OK, where to start...
>The minigames were pretty well implemented. I would have rather played an actual killing-stuff hold, but minigames work too.
>A little bug in the teaching game: when he says you can examine the scrolls, it says "you fail" if you touch anything instead of I. I wanted to examine the durned things!
>The alchemy task was more than a little repetitive, and I wanted to use my hook.
>Why isn't there a single bit of actual puzzle in this hold?

But if you were looking to design a nice-looking place based off of minigames, it was a pretty good hold. Kudos.

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Updated! Teaching problem fixed.

Thanks for the review, goldenferret (well worth a modpoint, I think)

Yes, I am afraid that this isn't really the Hold for puzzley-types... but I did make sure to include some puzzles in there - the Dungeons.

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Anson
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*eats curry rice and drops the spoon* this hold is AMAZING! your not a newbie, TRUST me
Oh and... A bug,
You can go into the mansion and Fall in the cellar, and pick up the money like...... unlimited times!

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Fixed.

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Anson wrote:
Shillings?
Their from "A game with a kitty"

hartleyhair wrote:
As far as I'm aware, they're actually derived from Victorian English currency.

Victorian!!!??? I remember shillings very well - and florins and half crowns and ten-bob notes and sixpences and threepenny bits and guineas and even ha'pennies and farthings! In fact, in my childhood money was real money - not this bland decimal stuff - and it was worth something!
I know that I am older than most (all?) active members here, but I'm not Victorian, honest.

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Elfstone wrote:

Anson wrote:
Shillings?
Their from "A game with a kitty"

hartleyhair wrote:
As far as I'm aware, they're actually derived from Victorian English currency.

Victorian!!!??? I remember shillings very well - and florins and half crowns and ten-bob notes and sixpences and threepenny bits and guineas and even ha'pennies and farthings! In fact, in my childhood money was real money - not this bland decimal stuff - and it was worth something!
I know that I am older than most (all?) active members here, but I'm not Victorian, honest.

Many apologies! I referred to Victorian currency because I believe that's when the system started - but I'm probably wrong.

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hartleyhair wrote:
Many apologies! I referred to Victorian currency because I believe that's when the system started - but I'm probably wrong.

no apology needed - I was teasing.
I have a feeling that £sd goes back a lot further than the Victorian era, but I could also be wrong.

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hartleyhair
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Oh. Well, I guess I look a bit of a prune now.

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Updated (hopefully final) version.

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Ed Crash
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What do I have to do in classroom?

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hartleyhair
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Make sentences with the words. The Teaching Instructor explains everything.

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how can I know words?



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Bug:When you die nine times you still don't die, but if it's meant that, what is use of that reaper? to waste your time?
Edit: I mean what is the use of the place where are those nine lifes

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Ed Crash wrote:
Bug:When you die nine times you still don't die, but if it's meant that, what is use of that reaper? to waste your time?
Edit: I mean what is the use of the place where are those nine lifes

As the Grim Reaper explains, your ninth life has been Deified. The number of deaths is purely aesthetic in value.

Ed Crash wrote:
how can I know words?

You are given the opportunity to examine them when you are doing the Teaching Tutorial in the Employment Agency.

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How do I exit hold?

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hartleyhair
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Well, if I told you that, what would be the point of finding it out for yourself?




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Having played this on the HA board, I must admit this really is a great innovative hold I just kept doing the same job over and over so maybe more variety there would add to it.

Great stuff

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Syntax wrote:
Having played this on the HA board, I must admit this really is a great innovative hold I just kept doing the same job over and over so maybe more variety there would add to it.

Great stuff

I currently have an idea for a sequel with much more action
Indeed, one of the jobs there would be Smitemaster!

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Ed Crash
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How do I get in palace?

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hartleyhair
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You don't.

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In the teaching job, the characters that fail you if you step on the wrong square keep going when you finish the sentence. So you fail when you start a second sentence.

hartleyhair
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I know. This is not a particularly crucial issue, however it is annoying.

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