Great news! BAB1 has been downloaded 1,260 times in the last two weeks! Better yet, not a single one of them have complained about game-breaking bugs!
If you haven’t gotten it yet, get it here!
That said, I’m announcing a small patch update to BAB1 for next Thursday, May 23. I’ll tell you what we found, and also what we’re looking at for bigger patches down the road.
Fixes:
Thanks to the awesome streamers Melluvsgames2, SpaceQuestHistorian, Jimni_P, TheAnimationVoice, we got to see firsthand encounters with a few bugs, inconsistencies, and misspellings.
Perhaps the most egregious inconsistency is a “look at chest” command which tells you with absolute certainty that the chest has no lock on it, and yet when you try to open it, you get box-blocked by a “It’s locked” message. Nope, it’s not that the game has an untrustworthy narrator, it’s just that I messed up!
![](https://slattstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/chest-not-locked.jpg?w=957)
The quick-travel map is also slightly bugged, but not in a way that matters for gameplay. Yes, it will always take you to the right place, so no worries there, but a small bug makes it so sometimes foreground images are drawn OVER the map.
![](https://slattstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/map-priority.jpg?w=959)
Believe it or not, I’m one of the most typo-prone prose writers in the known world. When you add to this the fact that SCI Companion (the tool I used to make the game) has no onboard spell/grammar checker, and you’ll be left with a game riddled with typos. Some of them have been uncovered and fixed – but I’m sure more are lurking in the shadows!
![](https://slattstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/typos-1.jpg?w=958)
One other “fix” we’ve made concerns the darts minigame. Due to the difficulty of the game’s controls, we’ve made a small change – you now get the puzzle point tied to the game not for winning, but just for challenging the sailor in the first place. While winning 3 times does give you some stats boosts, it is no longer necessary to win a game of darts for puzzle points.
![](https://slattstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/darts.jpg?w=952)
Bigger Things Down the Road
We also have some bigger plans for updates later, one among them is a complete overhaul of the darts minigame, which has been a common complaint about the game.
BAB1 currently supports Adlib, Soundblaster, and MT32 sound drivers, but we plan on getting it up and running with Tandy, PC Speaker, General Midi, and all other sound drivers that used to be standard for games of this type.
As we continue with Books 2 and 3, it will become more important to allow players the option to export and import their character and stats from one Book to the next, similar to the Quest for Glory series.
Show Me What You Got!
The update is coming in just a week. Tell me what you found! Are there bugs, inconsistencies, and/or misspellings that I missed? Join our Betrayed Alliance Discord and let me know!
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