What is Time Off Prosper?
Time Off Prosper is my attempt to make a loosely playable story that could be updated like a web-comic, allowing for constant user interaction and feedback, rather than relying purely on one-time releases. The goal was to make a system where I could update the ‘comic’ regularly without requiring the user to download a patch with every page added.
So how does it work?
Turns out, in a more complicated way than I originally imagined. The client executable is responsible for retrieving the page the user wants from an online database, and then downloading all images and animation files to a temporary location. However, since everything for each page had to be entirely external and modular, this meant the I had to create a system to make and decode custom animation files, map-building files, and even interpret a custom pseudo-programming language.
What now?
It took almost a month of full-time work to get these systems in place and running, and now that they are, the focus will finally be on story! I hope to update it once or twice a week with a new installment, and begin a new chapter in the Lonely Frontier Timeline! It starts off pretty cheesy, but bear with me!