Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

[Catgirls are Love]

Holy fucking shit.

I've spent a good couple of hours now browsing the code. The vast, vast majority of the game logic exists in one class, the disassembly of which is almost 16,000 lines long! To put this is to context for non-programmers, I consider a class to start getting unwieldy to maintain when it's over 2000 lines.

Holy fuck indeed. That's just...stupid. Like horrible amateur level.

What I'm really looking for is evidence of this super-seekrit easter egg that Wu has dropped hints about. I have yet to see any evidence that there's special logic for anything.

I think there's nothing there, but good hunting.

How the "special edition" is gated from the normal edition just seems to be a single variable flag, there is just if statement gating around the extra scenes. All the files they refer to appear to be present in my non-special edition. I suspect it's easy enough to turn the normal edition in to the special edition without paying for it, I'll try to figure out how that's done.

Oops.

 

[360NoTrope]

Nobody is tagging/reviewing the DLC yet.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

So, it's pretty much just on-disc DLC. Wot.

Which doesn't work when a dedicated kiwi can crack right into the code and turn special edition on.

 

[Collections Agent]

SU fandom already jumping on it lol

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Some people seem to be having technical issues starting the game, and the backers seem to have not gotten their keys yet.

 

[360NoTrope]

Shit you can do to get bonuses in the game:
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Does the 'Support' link point to the same 404 page the itunes store always did?

 

[NQ 952]

Holy fucking shit.

I've spent a good couple of hours now browsing the code. The vast, vast majority of the game logic exists in one class, the disassembly of which is almost 16,000 lines long! To put this is to context for non-programmers, I consider a class to start getting unwieldy to maintain when it's over 2000 lines.

Tracking the game state changes is incredibly painful, because it's all in one gigantic IF statement. It's not that they've even built a state matrix, like a parser generator might. It's just IF we're in this state, AND this thing happens, GO TO this state. It's madness.

That's ... amazing. There's no way a paid engineer would do something like that, would they?

How reliable is the decompilation process? Is it just bytecode, similar to Java? HAs this been tested against known code?
I only ask becuase I know some reverse engineering tools will do some wacky shit with executable code.

 

[Norvic]

Is there a way to see if Wu put the names of backers on the shipping crates or whatever she promised?

Also 2 years and she couldn't be bothered to spend 10 minutes at Vista Print to order some t-shirts for her backers. What a lazy fuck.

Fairly sure she didn't. I haven't actually played through it yet to see.

What I can tell you is that the super special consumables she offered backers definitely aren't in the game, so unless there's a special build for backers then that's one thing they didn't bother with.

 

[Without A Gout]

Some people seem to be having technical issues starting the game, and the backers seem to have not gotten their keys yet.

So tech support is only available to kickstarter backers? That's about as high a success rate as fucking TransLifeline.

Does John just call you a Gamergator and end it there?

Jesus fuck.

 

[Mimic]

You know what other games would break upon hitting tab?

Poorly coded flash games on Newgrounds.

 

[Norvic]

That's ... amazing. There's no way a paid engineer would do something like that, would they?

How reliable is the decompilation process? Is it just bytecode, similar to Java? HAs this been tested against known code?
I only ask becuase I know some reverse engineering tools will do some wacky shit with executable code.

Yeah, it's bytecode. It's pretty accurate to the input, but not quite perfect. Things that are enums in the source are ints in the decompiled version, for example. I'm going to test it on another UDK game I own at some point, but I'm assuming the fact that "else if" clauses are rendered as "else { if (...) {} }" is a decompiler feature, not a feature of the original code. If I find out otherwise, that'd be fucking hilarious.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Does the 'Support' link point to the same 404 page the itunes store always did?

Yup, pretty sure it's the same exact page.

 

[360NoTrope]

wat

 

[Ruin]

Fruityloops was a blast. I used to download midi files and change the instruments to things like 'spoons', 'hands clapping' and 'blowing across a bottle.'

Love me some 'tard music.

Is the Twitch stream over already? I thought it was FOUR HOURS WORTH OF CONTENT! Must be adding up all the endings.

Four hours? There are shitty hentai rpgmaker games with more content than that.

 

[vertexwindi]

wat

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it's leaked concept art

 

[NoStinkingBadges]

A lot of Source engine games leave the dev console in, like Half Life 2

 

[Human Institute Director]

That's ... amazing. There's no way a paid engineer would do something like that, would they?

It's like chapter 2 of Java for Dummies

 

[OldDayz]

Tracking the game state changes is incredibly painful, because it's all in one gigantic IF statement. It's not that they've even built a state matrix, like a parser generator might. It's just IF we're in this state, AND this thing happens, GO TO this state. It's madness.

Hahahahah, I am willing to bet there's actual GOTO statements in the code. Amateur hour indeed, John. Oh wait, you can't code, so it's probably one of your "diverse" staff that did this.

 

[piripiri]

A lot of Source engine games leave the dev console in, like Half Life 2

Exactly. Loads of games do.

 

[Von Clausewitz]

wat

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Oh my god!
I finally realized who Holiday reminds me of!

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