Unfortunately when I try to run this it just exits when I press 1 for “start game”; any ideas what’s up?
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity - How original is the idea? | #6 | 3.498 | 3.778 |
| Presentation - How does it look/feel? | #14 | 3.086 | 3.333 |
| Overall | #15 | 2.743 | 2.963 |
| Entertainment - How enjoyable/replayable is it? | #22 | 1.646 | 1.778 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The story is very well written and I loved the typewriter effect. Good job!
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Amethyst WatersThis is such a neat concept! the text-based animation and the way the intro is typed out line by line are cool.
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Tremendous Quest IVA lovely concept, it's a shame the game is so small.
Oh, and kudos for using Guile, it's surely a nice lisp to work with :)
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Darkness Looming: The DawnThank you! I could not get more done during the jam due to very real time constraints :-)
I hope I can make it larger over time.
Guile is really cool, but it often needs a bit more effort to get something working, because while the foundations are strong, the tools feel like they are tailored to those who already know them. For example I use stty to get the shell out of line-mode (cooked mode), instead of triggering some provided function — though it’s an awesome strength of its own that Guile allows me to do that shell indirection by using #! as inline comment — that way the hashbang for bash starts an inline comment, so I can add a bash-header in a completely valid scheme-file and then exec Guile after some custom operations :-).
Thank you!
I hoped that the curved sword would look like a parenthesis, but I have some more I want to do. Things like lashing out with ((((())))).
I still want to add a quine as ranged attack:
((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))
((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))
((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))and my paper notebooks has the moves of a C-style who fights with = and ++ and ===; having a vulnerable attack which uses < < < > > > (vulnerable between the angles, because C++ templates are whitespace-sensitive :-).
I’m still thinking about how to represent Haskell :-)
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