#nd34 — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://techhub.social/@vintprox/112393461619782109

One schizo thread for a riddle that didn't even make it into the final game. I feel like it's a ploy #HerInteractive made for making their trailer look "futuristic". Well, as a developer myself, I'll say that this poor attempt at mockery won't go unseen.

What you see here is some random snippet of FTP software written in Node.js. Whether it was stolen or not does not concern me (and believe me, I tried to find any matches with existing open source code on the Internet, to no avail). What concerns me is that they just had to obfuscate it - there is no reason for this whatsoever. No hidden clue in this, only a big ball of nothing.

#NancyDrew #ND34 #NancyDrewMYsteryOfTheSevenKeys #NodeJS #ECMAScript #JavaScript

🧵 So far, I've dug up the majority of source code on the right monitor that #ND34 trailer was hiding with those misplaced symbols and found some common traits. All is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nancydrew/comments/1clgwi4/lets_decypher_right_monitor_technology_of_this/

But there are still some things to be done. And if it's a message hidden by the developers that skipped #HerInteractive board, it might be truly interesting! At least, while we can't get more honest response than that. It needs to be decrypted! :blobcatdeficit:

#NancyDrew #MysteryOfTheSevenKeys has received mixed reviews: positive ones claim a big improvement over #MidnightInSalem, negative ones do state how bad everything is going after changes following #ND32 #SeaOfDarkness. So, #outsourcing happens and I don't know what new team even is like anymore. Lack of public playtesting isn't particularly helpful in catering the game to more audiences and without embarassing bugs. :0100:

#NancyDrewMysteryOfTheSevenKeys #ND33 #NancyDrewMignightInSalem #NancyDrewSeaOfDarkness #gamedev

Despite me being positive about #ND34, the newest entry for #NancyDrew videogame series, there is a merit in finding how we've got here in the first place and if #HerInteractive is a trustworthy studio.

Right of the gate, we see the drastic difference in how previous, #ND33 game performed after successful 32 inclusions... It's darn #MID, if you ask me. :thisIsFine: So, it was being developed after the big #layoff in Her, where most positions got bestowed on a new crew. Only that it was going hand-in-hand with new CEO's delusion of a #passion mobile project. Add here a camp of the #fanbase which insists on a regular ND release schedule, #hustle culture, and you have a case of rushed development, #crunch and leaving everyone with a subpar ND game. If anything, I guess old crew was spared nerve cells in expense of new blood being under equally subpar direction - lucky to be fired, unlucky to be hired? Oof.

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#NancyDrewMidnightInSalem #layoffs #HustleCulture #GoneWrong