Where we left off in 2023

In December of 2023, Kimya, Antonio, and I (Shreesha) submitted a much earlier version of this game for our Intermediate Game Development class at NYU. The way it was back then was somehow both different and similar to the version on itch.io today. It was a buggy mess with placeholder dialogue and no NPC animations, but it was also essentially the same five rooms that exist in the final version. I knew back then that I wanted to polish the game up before releasing it because I wanted the short experience that it was to be a fun, well-made final product. So, about six months later, after graduating from NYU, I decided to finally finish what we started.

What we changed in 2024

For the first few weeks, I spent a couple of hours every day just fixing bugs because, yeah, there were a lot of them. We produced the game in such a rush during Intermediate Game Development; we ended up with an incredible multitude of issues. That multitude, however, was finally conquered toward the end of September, and with those out of the way, I was ready to tackle the changes and implementations I wanted to make. From a brand-new sprite for the destructible door to the redesign of room 3 to the badly-needed NPC animations, I did everything I could to make the game as enjoyable and polished as possible. I even added new NPCs and rewrote each and every character's dialogue. The only reason I'm not also credited as a writer is because I used this project to apply to graduate programs. When I was applying, I hadn't yet rewritten the NPCs' dialogue, so to avoid any discrepancies between the itch.io page and my applications, I decided to leave the credits as they are now. Anyway, now, thanks to Kimya's webpage design work and as a result of the past few months of work, Radish Boy Commits Insider Trading and its itch.io page are finally complete! Thank you so much to my partners in crime, Kimya and Antonio, for helping me make this game as good as it could possibly be! And thank you so much for playing our game!