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Macbeth Is Fading's itch.io pageTheme inspiration
"Passage" put me in mind of a passage of literature, and I've been wanting to make some kind of game working with the text of Shakespeare, so this seemed like a good opportunity. You have to work with the text, but also avoid book-devouring magical monsters.
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Includes quotations from Shakespeare's "Macbeth," some of which are dark (but not graphic or obscene, certainly)...
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I tried running the executable, but all it did was bring up an open file dialogue.
Argh. Here's a new upload of zip file (download, unzip, and then run the .exe) on Google Drive. (I.e., download entire zip file first. Will replace the faulty .exe once uploads are allowed again.)
I tried that version. It works.
The actual game works too, as a concept. I imagine it'd be really fun for a large portion of theatre buffs, and the spiders looked really good. Unfortunately, I got stuck on the second level, due to not knowing any of the lines of the passage and apparently being unable to guess what phrasing Shakespeare chose. I don't think I've ever actually read MacBeth, since there were other Shakespeare plays that got recommended first when I had access to them (ie. Hamlet).
Thanks for trying it out -- again! Yeah, I understand what you mean about getting stuck; it needs hints or some other kind of training mode in order not to be just a quiz on whether you know this text already. (My idea was that the "extra material" needed for one of the challenges was the text of the play, but didn't link or otherwise mention that.) Glad you like the basic concept though! Making a set / classic text into a game is tough, I fear...