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Alchemisery Release 4

Alchemisery: A Day in Plague
A browser game made in HTML5

Release 4 is here! Hopefully things will feel more finished and stable by the time I hit double digits with these releases. 

The game was a bit rushed due to the jam constraints and personal issues, like coming down with a disease. How thematically appropriate! But we'll get there regardless.

Changes include:

  • Fixing several solutions including ones that prevented you from helping certain townsfolk.
  • Typo fixes, including some that made it difficult to interact with key items.
  • Improvements to make the parser more user-friendly with certain verbs and nouns.
  • Better parser messages in general, fewer "default" or unhelpful messages.
  • Better hinting in item and room descriptions, where appropriate.
  • Improved dialogue with some townsfolk.
  • Fixed death/end of game messages about score (there is not a numeric score in the game).

There's still more I would like to do to fix up minor issues and improve some of the parsing, especially related to moving around the map.

I also need to playtest further, myself. And of course, if you run into any issues  with this release, please let me know in the comments!

Files

  • alchemisery.z3 70 kB
    Aug 23, 2024
  • alchemisery.z3.html 787 kB
    Aug 23, 2024
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