Blazing Games - One of those Weeks - Day 7

One of those Weeks

Day 7

Instructions

General Game play

This game, for the most part, this game revolves around a point and click interface. Even the dream sequence you move by clicking on the rock that you want to jump to. Other control mechanisms will be explained when the episode that uses them are released. Episode 44 features a slightly different type of room that is scrollable by simply moving the mouse to either edge of the screen.

Solid Light

For episode 42, you are shown the world from an overhead view. Movement is done using the cursor keys. You can push lights by moving into them. Lights can be merged as long as the light components (red, green and blue) are different. For example, red and blue combine into purple, but you can't combine red and purple because purple already has a red component in it. Lights can be split into their primitive components by pushing them into the pointy end of a splitter (the triangle things). Doors require the exact color of light to pass through them. The color X's mark the locations that lights of the same color as the X need to be placed.

Inventory

The bar at the bottom of the screen is your inventory though it is not used in all the episodes. Episodes involving the inventory required that you pick up an item to add it to the inventory To use that item, click on it. You click on an item in the inventory bar to use it then click what you wish to use the item on. The selected inventory item is highlighted.

Conversations

The conversation system used in this day is the same system in day 5. The person or creature talking to you will be shown with their speech in the big dialog bubble (or other shape depending on the creature). Your speech options are smaller bubbles. Other actions appear in square boxes. It should be noted that the conversation in episode 43 contains vital information that will be needed to complete episode 44/

Navigating in Three Dimensions

Episode 45 has a 3D scrolling view. While arrows will appear to allow you to move forward or turn, you can also use the cursor keys to move through these sections. The cursor up key will move you forward, the cursor right and left keys will turn you right or left. If you are using the mouse to navigate, the movement buttons are invisible until the mouse is over them but they are located near the bottom of the screen and are quite big so it should be easy to find them. Movement and turning only happens while you have the arrow or turn symbol down while the mouse is over them. If you move the mouse off the symbol movement or will stop and you will have to release the mouse button before you can click on the movement button again.

Walk through

If you are having problems with an episode, you can skip it and go to the next episode. That being said, the Making of One of those Weeks eBook has walk through of all the episodes it covers. If the episode you are stuck on is an episode that has been released as open source, then the eBook chapter for that episode will have the walk through. Episodes are open sourced roughly a year or so after they were originally released.