The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis

Posted by tekromancr on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:10PM
from the thewebsiteisdown.com dept.

http://thewebsiteisdown.com/twidblog/day-of-the-tentacle-dependency-graph/

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by jaimebuelta on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:48AM (#14137302)

Cached view: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

(lacking some graphs, though, which is the most interesting of the article)

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by plastroltech on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:46AM (#14139216)

The site is back up now.

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by atesti on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:36AM (#14137451)

If you like adventure games, go to https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/final_puzzles and read the complete blog and play the excellent game out now!

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by SmellyGeekBoy on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:33AM (#14137646)

Just to add, there's a direct link back to DoTT / MM as well, as Thimbleweed Park is the brainchild of Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, the developer and artist behind the original games at LucasFilm (they were involved with Monkey Island as well).

Completed Thimbleweed Park over the Easter break and it's fantastic.

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by mseepgood on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:50AM (#14138367)

> they were involved with Monkey Island as well

Gilbert invented Monkey Island.

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by yazr on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:40AM (#14137276)

I really like the charts. Are they auto-generated or manual ? Does anyone recognize which tool it is?

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by plastroltech on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:53AM (#14139278)

This is my blog. Glad you like it. I used yEd for the dependency graphs. There's a lot of detail on how I did it in the first segment: http://thewebsiteisdown.com/twidblog/puzzle-dependency-graph.... Also available here in case my site goes down again (http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshuaWeinberg/20160502/27010...).

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by pimlottc on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:45AM (#14137476)

I can't see all of them since the site is down, but it looks like they could be from yEd / yFiles: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by coldcode on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @08:35AM (#14138295)

Apparently one of the dependencies is MySQL.

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by GrumpyNl on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:44AM (#14137291)

The name of the site reflects the behavior of the site. Th site is down :)

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by krylon on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @09:33AM (#14138650)

The irony is kind of delicious... ;-)

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by golergka on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:29AM (#14137615)

Looks like the website is, indeed, down.

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Re:The Day of the Tentacle: Puzzle Dependency Graph Analysis by hex13 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:44AM (#14137288)

"Error establishing a database connection" :/

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